Purdue University in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1999 and 2001. In 2001 she joined the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Rice University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her current research interests include robotics, mechatronics, and engineering education. Page 12.855.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Improving Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Projects with Cooperative Learning in the Medi-Fridge ProjectAbstractAs research at many institutions becomes more and
Paper ID #12365Work in Progress: Providing Diverse Opportunities for Capstone Projects inBiomedical EngineeringDr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Mansoor Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Cincinnati and Ph.D.in Bioengineering from University of California-Berkeley. He worked as a research scientist at US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC before joining Biomedical Engineering department at Lawrence Technological University. He has several publications in the areas of microfluidics, chemical and biolog- ical sensors and MEMS technology. He is also passionate
. Concepts are generated and evaluated, and a plan is generated for thePage 13.359.4The faculty concluded that completely independent capstone experiences were not conducive tocreating a comprehensive design or experimental capstone experience.Phase II: Selective Integration of Capstone ExperiencesWe implemented a pilot study (Phase II) in which two of the design teams were allowed toremain intact for the experimental capstone experience. Furthermore, those teams were alsoassigned the same project in both capstone sequences. All other students experienced thecapstone courses in a manner identical to students in Phase I. We found that the students in theÐukping-team, single-rtqlgevÑ"rgthqtogf"cv"c"jkijgt"ngxgl as measured by quantitative
design solutions twice to emphasizethe importance of iteration.We found that an immersive design-build-iterate experience in the 2nd year is associated withnarrowly focused improvements in 4th year capstone design outcomes. Specifically, the builtquality of the final prototype was improved in projects that focused on mechanical design, butthese improvements did not extend to other types of projects or to other late steps in theengineering design process. We discuss our findings in terms of the spacing effect, and othermeans by which engineering design behavior might be reinforced.Control yearThe control year of this design course was based around (a) a semester-long project thatculminated in an alpha prototype, and (b) a series of 1 to 3-week
; Design Metrics Weeks 2-5 Phase 2: Concept Generation & Selection Weeks 6-9 Phase 3: Final Design, Prototype & Project Budget Midterm Oral Presentation, Outside Reviews Weeks 10-15 Phase 4: Design Validation, Conclusion & Path Forward Final Oral Presentation, Outside Reviews & Poster Session *Falls in the middle of Phase 3, closer to week 7-8Senior Design (BMEG450), a capstone course, is an intensive 6-credit, one semester, team-basedproject driven course, which requires strong teamwork and application of engineering, scienceand design principles to solve a sponsor driven problem. Traditionally, industrial partners
,including biomedical and biotech industries, academic research, intellectual property, FDAregulation, consulting, finance, and other professional tracks. To address the need forundergraduates to possess adequate non-technical skills prior to graduation, BME curriculatypically use capstone courses as vehicles for teaching professionalism. In the BME Capstonecourse at the University of Virginia, we have instituted several mechanisms for instilling a widearray of non-technical professional skills in BME majors. An emphasis on career developmentbegins at the outset of the course with a formal project selection process that features a BMECapstone “Project Fair,” which is similar to a job fair where the students submit resumes andinterview with potential
design experience based on theknowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineeringstandards and multiple realistic constraints”. It allows students to develop their managementskills while learning design and product development. Students apply what they have learned inthe previous years, develop their communication skills, as well as their interpersonal and projectmanagement skills towards design and product development. The capstone design courseprepares students for successful and productive professional careers. Teams must be composedof members with skills needed to successfully complete the project. For complex problems theseskills often require knowledge from disciplines outside of their own, and
established technical specifications. 14. Abilities to deliver project products (design solution and business plan) judged credible by clients and others within the engineering and business professions.This capstone design course sequence has emerged from a decade of cross-college collaborationand refinement. Results are evidenced by greater entrepreneurial competencies of students, morebusiness-ready technological products, and more substantive relationships with collaborators.Increasingly, the courses are managed to emulate business practice and operate on a rapiddevelopment cycle. This paper presents the following templates for establishing anentrepreneurial engineering capstone design course for bioengineering students: 1
engineering.Students apply engineering design principles through completion of a team design project with Page 11.401.2realistic constraints. The course serves as the entry point for the four-quarter sequence in whichstudents undertake and complete their capstone design project.Principles of Biomedical Design is a two-credit, required course for all biomedical engineeringstudents in the spring quarter of their junior year. The course meets twice a week, with one 50-minute lecture session and one 160-minute laboratory session. A unique feature of this course isits overlap with the final quarter of the senior design sequence. Half of the laboratory exercisesin
Paper ID #9730Work in Progress: International BME Capstone and Summer Design Expe-rienceProf. Mark A. Ruegsegger, The Ohio State University Mark Ruegsegger is currently an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering at Ohio State University. He has a curricular focus on the Senior Design capstone course, which includes multi-disciplinary teams of BME, Mechanical Engineering, Occupational & Physical Therapy, and other Medical and Engineering disciplines. Each project team builds a device that provides assis- tance to those with disabilities, or projects with other clinical or
. Page 14.822.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Jumpstarting the Capstone Experience Through a Bioengineering Product Design CourseIntroductionFaculty at Florida Gulf Coast University have developed Bioengineering Product Design (BME4800C) specifically to introduce concepts and skills in bioengineering product design in thesemester prior to our capstone experience – thus, jumpstarting students into their senior designprojects. Our intent has been to use a reverse engineering, semester-long project to familiarizestudents with FDA regulations, intellectual property issues, and design with SolidWorks, amongother topics, in their junior year so more attention can be paid to the design
hope thatthese revisions will help students use the rubric more productively for their own writing and forthe peer review.ConclusionThis paper describes enhancements to a capstone design class to improve the quality of technicalwriting. These enhancements were successful in meeting our goals. Students worked on theirwriting throughout the semester and completed a major portion of their final report more than amonth before the deadline. Every student was engaged in the writing process. The writingassignments were timed to coincide with project milestones so that the writing enhanced theirprogress in the project work. Finally, a small-scale assessment demonstrated that theseenhancements resulting in significant improvements to the quality of
simulation, internships and cooperative education, guest speakers,guest instructors, field trips, bioethics instruction and problem-centered instruction.5 AtBucknell, a four course sequence over the Junior and Senior Years was implemented in order tointroduce students to such skills as regulatory issues, teamwork, environmental impacts, formaldecision making, computer-aided design, machining, rapid prototyping, cell culture andstatistical analysis.4 Importantly these skills are taught and practiced prior to embarking on thesenior capstone design project.4 At the University of Virginia professional skills such as jobsearching, interviewing, written and oral communication, ethics, negotiation skills, leadership,intellectual property and
sequence. Given a one-credit allotment of instructor time towardthis capstone, peer review seemed a promising way to enrich students’ writing education in theircapstone project report. But moreover, we believed that senior-level students who have hadrepeated exposure to journal and conference articles have already acquired a degree of practicalexpertise in our disciplinary discourse; near the conclusion of their college education, we didn’tbelieve it appropriate or warranted to teach them writing skills from scratch. Rather, we felt thata better pedagogical approach was to help students discover and marshal their own expertise andthat of their peers. In this way we might scaffold students’ metacognitive use of their ownexperiences as readers, as
. Page 12.1268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Senior Design Project in Biomedical Engineering EducationAbstractThe Senior Design Project for the 2005-2006 academic year’s biomedical engineeringstudents was a capstone experience, in which students participated in a real-worldengineering project in consultation with their advisor. The topic of the project was “APositive Reinforcement System for Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy”. The maingoal of this project was to develop an auditory and visual therapy device for infants andchildren with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) through a non-invasive approach with theincorporation of positive reinforcement. The proposed device incorporates proximitysensors and auditory
AC 2009-457: LEARNING ABOUT BLOOD THROUGH A PROPERTY DATABASEPROJECTCraig Somerton, Michigan State University Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in
courses.Students in Biotransport (upper level course) have developed laboratories for introductorystudents and these laboratories have been used in the first, general transport phenomena course1.This project was a unique opportunity to address ABET Criterion 3b2 (“an ability to design andconduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data”) prior to capstone courses andoutside of a research opportunity. While this project has been successful, an integral part of theexperience at Saint Louis University is service to others. Therefore, the project was changedfrom development of a laboratory for introductory students to the development of ademonstration as outreach for pre-college students.In general, it is important that engineering programs
-class assignments. All assignments weresubmitted electronically via Blackboard to instructors by the end of the class period. The in-classactivities were designed so that students applied the knowledge and professional design skills Page 25.1140.5discussed in the introductory lecture to their own capstone project. During the in-class activities,four course instructors and one teaching assistant circulated to provide immediate assistance andreal time feedback (one instructor to 10 – 15 students). The professional skills covered are listedin Table 1. A slightly different course format was used for ethics and economics, where thecourse time
students’ development of effectivecommunication skills along with technical skill development. The senior capstone report oftenplays an instrumental role in this development, since it comprises both the final assessment ofstudent communication performance and also students’ most significant opportunity for activelearning of in-discipline communication skills. Peer review has been proposed as an ideal meansto provide students with much-needed feedback toward this communication learning. Peerreview also has the potential to increase students’ interpersonal communication skills andmetacognition, provided that the review activity is structured to encourage constructivecontributions and reflection[1]. The goal of this work-in-progress project is to
based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.Within the biomedical engineering curriculum at Bucknell University, a senior-level fabricationand experimental design course is integrated into a four course design sequence where twocourses comprise the senior capstone experience and two courses teach supplementary material.The intent of the sequence is to provide experience with a variety of skills that are valuable forboth senior design projects and in BME careers after graduation. As designed, the Fabricationand Experimental Design course is not a full-credit course, meeting only two days a week forone-hour sessions, with several lab sessions
Engineering, and College ofNursing will also utilize the developed laboratory for senior design projects (capstone sequence),which will measure the impact on the students from all disciplines. This is part of a new andinnovative transdisciplinary approach to the education of health care professionals, which linksdesign and development of medical devices (biomedical engineering) with maintenance of thosedevices in a clinical environment (biomedical engineering technology) and clinical applicationand use of the devices in actual patient care (nursing). We believe that cross-training ofindividuals from these programs will facilitate the design and development of medical devices,which are easier and more cost-effective to maintain as well as more useable
capstone courses,which range from 1-2 semesters and generally take place during the senior year2. Students mustwork in teams of 3-6 in the majority (83%) of programs, and work on the completion of a projectsolicited from faculty, industry, a sponsored design competition, or a student’s own idea. Theteams are advised by a faculty member, with whom they have weekly meetings, which carries asignificant time requirement. The number of projects offered each semester varies, and does notalways match the numbers of students especially in large engineering programs. Most projectscan be completed on a modest budget, providing there is access to a machine shop and otherneeded fabrication facilities3. While the cost is not excessive, properly supporting
cornerstone of engineering education is design education. Accredited programs are required toprovide a capstone design experience in which students integrate knowledge gained from theircoursework. For many engineering programs, design education begins in the freshman yearwhere students are introduced to the design process.1, 2, 3, 4 Following this freshman experience,many students are not required to implement the design process in a systematic fashion until theyperform their capstone project . Integration of design across the curriculum is challenging sincethe outcomes of most lecture courses rely predominately on mastery of subject matter.Both freshman and capstone design courses for biomedical engineering students often involvethe design of
was 56%. Thenumber of national awards presented to our undergraduates is also significant, ranging fromBMES and Society for Biomaterials Undergraduate Awards and Sigma Xi grants to variousposter and paper recognitions at the local, regional, and national levels. The ability to havecontinuous projects where students can easily pass on their work to underclassmen has also beenimproved thus leading to an increase in overall scholarly activity in the laboratory and a morepositive experience for the undergraduate. Page 12.313.2IntroductionWhile capstone design courses are at the core of all engineering disciplines, the depth ofexposure to
the design process. Such design experiences commonlyoccur in first year introduction to design courses 1, 2 and capstone design courses. 3, 4, 5 Facultymembers in biomedical engineering and industrial engineering at Western New England Collegehave previously described a 5-week design experience,6 based on the NISH National ScholarAward for Workplace Innovation & Design,7 that provided an opportunity for students to designassistive technologies for workers with disabilities at Goodwill Industries of theSpringfield/Hartford Area, Inc., a local nonprofit agency performing light manufacturing work.These projects were completed in interdisciplinary teams as requirements in senior biomedicalengineering and industrial engineering laboratory
curriculum at the University of Hartford aims to engage students ininterdisciplinary design and real-world projects in each of their four years. As enteringfreshman, all engineering students are required to take a course in which they work with robotson various small projects. The sophomore course, described in this paper, is entitled Engineeringby Design and it is the next course in the sequence. Its purpose is to involve students in a projectthat is more comprehensive and realistic than their freshman experience. The junior level coursestudies the engineering process from conceptual design to manufacturing. Finally, as seniors, thestudents take their capstone design course in which groups work on a single significantengineering problem that may be
angiogenesis and microvascular remodeling, as well as undergraduate engineering pedagogical approaches. Upon completion of her Ph.D. degree, Ms. Taylor will join the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, where she will coordinate undergraduate teaching labs and the Bioengineering Capstone Design sequence.Katelyn Mason, University of Virginia Katelyn E. Mason is a third year undergraduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Since January 2009, Ms. Mason has been collaborating on research projects in Shayn M. Peirce’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Her research is focused
Page 23.1387.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Work in Progress: Using clinical advisory boards and an online system to provide feedback for client-based senior design projectsAbstractIn our capstone design class, biomedical engineering (BME) students develop custom assistivetechnology for people with disabilities in the local community. Project ideas come fromtherapists and clinicians in Durham and Chapel Hill. Students spend the entire semester workingon the design and development of a device that meets the client’s need. This work involves asignificant clinical understanding to ensure that the final device will be appropriate for the client.To provide this clinical perspective
assistant professor of surgery assistant professor of biomedical engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A team leader model for scalable clinical observation in the biomedical engineering capstone design course Work In ProgressOverviewA critical step in undergraduate biomedical engineering capstone design projects is problemidentification and validation. This process is enriched with training in clinical observation androot-cause analysis. For projects developed around a clinical need, active training in observationfor large groups (>50 students) is challenging—many clinical procedures limit observationgroups to three students or fewer
Paper ID #12790Work in Progress: Mini Projects - Using News Articles to Promote LifelongLearning and Expose Students to Engineering BreadthDr. Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University Chris Geiger is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering in the U.A.Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his M.S and Ph.D.degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1999 and 2003, respectively,and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1996.Prof. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University JAMES D. SWEENEY is Professor and Head