Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Gatchell, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

unlikely that a career in designingbiomaterials or biomedical devices would require knowledge of "Artificial Intelligence", a careerin bioinformatics may require some familiarity with this concept. This knowledge can be gainedfrom advanced courses in this discipline, and not from courses required of all undergraduates.In the second round of this study we revisited concepts which did not receive consensus ratingsin the first round, i.e., the ratings did not meet the criteria for inclusion in, or exclusion from, therecommended curriculum (see Table 1). Participants were asked to rate the importance of these Page 12.1584.13concepts, this time

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

taxonomy(Table 1). This approach may have evolved as medical students need to fully understand eachphysiological system. Learning each system completely may be advantageous to biomedicalengineering students who move onto careers in medicine or medical instrumentation; however,in one or two courses it is not possible to present the extensive content of a systems physiologytaxonomy.Table 1. Systems-based taxonomy for human physiology coursesHomeostasis: A Framework for Human Physiology Sensory PhysiologyChemical composition of body Efferent Peripheral Nervous SystemCells and Tissues Skeletal-Muscular SystemMembrane Dynamics Control of Body

Conference Session

Using Technology and Research-based Instructional Practices in BME

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California; Brittany Kay, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

and undergraduate courses. She received her B.S. (2006), M.S. (2012), and Ph.D. (2012) in the field of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern Califor- nia, focusing on pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling during her graduate career. Page 26.263.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Assessment of performance and student feedback in the flipped classroom1. Background:The flipped classroom approach inverts the traditional “teaching/lecture – learning/homework”model by presenting the course content outside of classroom ahead of the traditional lectureperiod and

Conference Session

Laboratories and Computer Simulation in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

new situations. It is difficult for students to learn this abilitythrough a combination of lecture, homework and instructor-designed labs. It is ourstudents’ ability to creatively solve problems that make them desirable to futureemployers and ensure their success throughout their careers. The caveat is that learninghow to navigate a novel problem cannot be taught; it must be experienced and practiced.Based upon student feedback and instructor observations, we believe the concept ofvertical labs leading toward a semester-long project was an effective way for students tolearn and apply concepts taught in a traditional signals and system courses. Student wereable to effectively translate course work to design, developed intuition in

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kevin Caves, Duke University; Julie A. Reynolds, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

skills will be more important intheir careers. In addition, they may assume that a project that doesn’t work will hurt their finalgrade much more than a poorly written final report. Finally, our students have had fewopportunities to practice and develop their technical writing skills in our curricula.Therefore, we adopted new strategies to improve the quality of technical writing in our capstonedesign course. Our goals were to: 1. Encourage students to work on their writing earlier and throughout the semester 2. Engage every student in the class in the writing process 3. Use writing as a tool to improve students’ understanding of the clinical problem that they are addressing and how their design addresses their client’s needs 4

Conference Session

Laboratories and Projects in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Donald L. McEachron, Drexel University; Fran Cornelius, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

before taking the course.This provides immediate feedback on the success of the course in meeting its objectives. Toassess the long-term impact of the course, information will be derived from several sources. Forundergraduate participants, information from senior exit interviews can be used. Additional datawill be collected on the career choices of students who have taken the proposed course and theiroverall employment rates.SummaryThe new transdisciplinary program based on the biomedical instrumentation laboratory to bedeveloped is described in this paper. The main participants in this development are the School ofTechnology and Professional Studies, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and HealthSystems, and the College of Nursing and

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin Madison; Xuan Zhang, University of Wisconsin - madison; Mehdi Shokoueinejad, University of Wisconsin Madison; John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Engineers, Instrument Society of America, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Institute of Physics. He has been a member of the IEEE-EMBS Page 24.1018.1 Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting Active Learning in Biomedical Engineering Classes through   Blended InstructionAbstractIn 2013 we implemented blended teaching in one of the core biomedical engineering

Conference Session

Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. The educational diversity in BME results not only from differentuniversities failing to cover the whole “core,” as we have defined it, but from students havingmany elective experiences. Whether students have more breadth (a large number of common courses) or more depth(tracks) is clearly an unresolved question in BME undergraduate education, with opinions ofacademia and industry reflecting the diversity that is seen in programs. It will be of interest torevisit this in another ten years, but this is not necessarily a question that needs to be resolved. Aremaining question is whether both approaches are equally good for all students, or whether eachis best for a subset of students, perhaps having different career

Conference Session

Design in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Thomas La Belle, Arizona State University; Aldin Malkoc, Arizona State University ; Mackenzie Honikel, Arizona State University, Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

concepts. The first being teaching andretention of concepts that are important in design, specifically senior year design.Second, it offers promise into the transferability of content and learning betweenprofessors, semesters, and time a class is offered. While this study was performedon a junior year course, a project-based learning experience is perfect for thefreshmen year experience, to ensure that students are taught these skills early onin their academic careers. In addition, the methodology used in this course isapplicable to any grade level. While implemented junior year, this form ofteaching could greatly benefit FYE.IntroductionVarious engineering programs have multiple professors that can and do teach thesame course. It becomes the

Conference Session

Clinical, Patient, and Innovation Experiences in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P. Cavanagh, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

complexities ofhealth care disease situations. While progressing through the three projects, the students becamemore independent and self-guided in their work, which was appreciated by many of the studentsin the course. Based upon the course evaluations, instructor evaluations, and the studentreflections, this course has had an effective impact on the students as they venture into a widerange of health care related careers and/ or as health care consumers themselves.References1. Soh, E.K., Kaur, A., Tham, M.P., and Chong, D.Y.R., Engineers in Hospital: An Immersive and Multi-Disciplinary Pedagogical Approach for Better Solutions, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 20132. Kotche, M., Clinical Immersion

Conference Session

Education Programs in BME

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, Clemson University; John D DesJardins, Clemson University; Carson Mackenzie Ida Brewer, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

that better prepare them for their post-graduationplans.The student evaluation of their perceived effect of the program directly after the program’sconclusion was timed such that an immediate interpretation of the future effects on career goalscould be captured. It is also intended to capture the students’ responses following their fullparticipation in the associated senior design course.IV. Expected Results DiscussionWe hypothesize that the students that participated in the DeFINE program will possess a greaterreadiness for the workplace if their intention post-graduation is to move into the clinical orindustry environment. All are expected to graduate with a greater understanding of how toobserve needs and then further evaluate the

Conference Session

"Best" of BED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, University of Maryland, College Park; Rachel L. Manthe, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park; Kevin M Knapstein, Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

think critically about scientific and engineering techniques. While these resultscould also indicate that freshmen students may feel overly confident in their ability to performcertain tasks, student perceptions towards their abilities in a career is an important factor forretention and success17.Progression in their experiments was tracked via scores obtained in the Innovation Portalelements from the beginning (Element A) to the end of the semester (Element L). Table 1demonstrates the average scores of freshmen and sophomore journal entries. In the beginning ofthe semester, sophomores demonstrated better problem-solving skills than freshmen. However,by the end of the semester, there was no difference between the groups suggesting a greater

Conference Session

Laboratories and Projects in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

are playing an increasingly important role in research and Page 22.98.13design (8, 10, 16 23, 33). Although programming languages will come and go, the ability   12  to think algorithmically is a skill that engineering undergraduates will need, not only infor their first job, but throughout their 40+ year career (9, 10, 30, 32). It is thereforeimportant to teach algorithmic thinking as a critical thinking skill.In this paper we have proposed Coding to Think as an extension of Writing to Think, andIdea to Code as a practical way for students to learn Coding to

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in BME

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

game.Coaches make their players practice both in pieces and putting it all together. Routine problemscan be seen as analogous to a layup and complex real-world problems analogous to a scrimmage.In a previous study one student highlighted this difference when he asked, “you mean you wantme to solve this like a real problem in the lab or something, not like homework or a problem onan exam.” Our students have learned how to “play school” well, but we need to make schoolmore applicable to the careers we are preparing them to enter. Students need more practicesolving complex real-world problems. It seems unnecessary to make students wait to start thispractice only after they have mastered basic math and science concepts. As Schwartz et al.(2005) propose

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

can only be reported in limited form herebecause of the short time since the first cohort’s participation (ending December 2010). Threeyears of CURE data collection and analysis cycles should provide meaningful evidence and arich understanding of the effects of the CURE program for promoting graduate school studies,increasing awareness of international aspects to a research career, and undergraduate researchersas a link between international labs. This will be reported in future publications.DiscussionCURE is designed around three goals. We wanted to provide undergraduate students with aninternational research experience that had the potential to: (1) offer a global perspective on research challenges and opportunities in the field of