2006-1536: BIOINSTRUMENTATION INSTRUCTION THROUGH HYBRIDWET/CIRCUIT LABORATORY ACTIVITIESJason Bazil, Purdue UniversityAaron Kyle, Purdue UniversitySuneera Bhatia, Purdue UniversityBrain Moerdyk, Purdue UniversityThomas Talavage, Purdue UniversityAllison Sieving, Purdue UniversityAndrew Brightman, Purdue UniversityGeorge Graber, Purdue UniversityAnn Rundell, Purdue University Page 11.275.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Bioinstrumentation Instruction through Hybrid Wet/Circuit Laboratory ActivitiesAbstract Biomedical Engineering undergraduate programs traditionally consist of a linear circuitscourse preceding a Bioinstrumentation
2006-1950: A LABORATORY DEMONSTRATION OF SPATIAL ENCODING INMRIMarkus Billeter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for BiomedicalEngineering MARKUS BILLETER is a MS student in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently working on his Master Thesis at Northwestern University which is the last step to receive his MS degree.Grace M. Nijm, Northwestern University GRACE M. NIJM earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2004 and her B.S. in Computer Science from Benedictine University in the same year. In 2005, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research
2006-1047: LABORATORY DEVICE FOR DEMONSTRATING MEDICALIMAGING IN THE CLASSROOMAna Lukic, Illinois Institute of TechnologyMiles Wernick, Illinois Institute of Technology Page 11.859.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Laboratory Device for Demonstrating Medical Imaging in the ClassroomAbstractIn this paper, we describe the details of the experimental setup developed with the objective ofdemonstrating the principles of tomography using visible light. Most tomographic methods useinvisible forms of radiation (e.g., x-rays or ultrasound) and therefore it is not very instructive tosee them in operation. The proposed setup
2006-1192: QUALITATIVE, QUANTITATIVE, OPEN-ENDED: A PROGRESSIONIN LABORATORY/LECTURE LEARNINGJoseph Tranquillo, Bucknell University JOSEPH V TRANQUILLO is an assistant professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at Bucknell University. Dr. Tranquillo teaches courses primarily in bioinstrumentation. His research focuses on theoretical and computational models of electrical activity in the heart. Page 11.1056.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Qualitative, Quantitative, Open-Ended A Progression in Laboratory/Lecture LearningPurpose:This paper describes the
2006-2148: INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE LABORATORY EXPERIENCESTHROUGHOUT THE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMJudy Cezeaux, Western New England College Judy Cezeaux is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and her Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to her appointment at Western New England College, she was a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was a faculty member at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1991 to 2000
. Email: derwent@iit.edu Page 11.741.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Incorporating Peer Assisted Learning into a Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation and Measurement LaboratoryAbstractThe Biomedical Engineering (BME) 315 Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory classwas created to expose BME students to biological instrumentation and measurement laboratorymodules. This is a time intensive laboratory class where both the instructor and teachingassistant are required in the laboratory at all times. Often times, having one teaching assistant isinsufficient to interact with the more than 30 students (in
2006-1530: COSMM: AN UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY FORENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING COMPLEX, ORGANIC SHAPESUSING NATURE AS A TEMPLATEDaniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University Dan Walsh received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Materials Science and Engineering. He holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well. He is currently an Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and General Engineering and a Professor of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he worked for General Dynamics and for Coulter Curtin Matheson. His research interests include
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
BioEngineering Department at the authors’ institution, the University ofIllinois at Chicago (UIC). Special emphasis will be placed on the laboratory component,since this is in certain ways the most important, yet the most challenging.Training neural engineersMany undergraduate bioengineering programs require students to select an area in which tofocus their coursework during their latter undergraduate years. This so-called “tracking” ismeant to give students some depth within the very broad bioengineering field. It has beenargued that depth helps students to compete more successfully for jobs, but exploring asubject area in depth is also a beneficial intellectual exercise in its own right.It is difficult to determine how many bioengineering programs now
2006-1162: NEW PATHWAYS TO EDUCATE FUTURE TRANSLATIONALRESEARCHERS IN MEDICINEAnn Saterbak, Rice University Ann Saterbak is Director of Laboratory Instruction and Lecturer in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University. She received her B.A. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from Rice University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1995. She conducted research and provided technical support within Shell Development Company from 1995 to 1999.Michele Follen, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Dr. Michele Follen received her B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1975, her M.D. degree from the
students are listed below.Full-time students: 28Part-time students: 35Employers of part-time students: Abbott Laboratories Pierce Milwaukee, Inc. GE Healthcare Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin Baxter Healthcare Medical College of Wisconsin Camtronics Medical Systems Circon-ACMI Pharmacia Quest Diagnostics. Advocate Health SystemsGraduates of program: 39Graduate employment: Industry: 26 (GE Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions, Phillips Medical Systems, Kimberly-Clark
, defibrillators(external and implantable), transmitter systems, Holter Monitors, databases, andfuture directions. Invited speakers typically include a cardiologist and aMedtronic field engineer, tours include a visit to a Human Patient Simulator and aClinical Pharmacology research laboratory, and demonstrations involved use of afree commercial package on biological signals. The course further covers anoverview of the following engineering topics: data capture techniques, sampling,and A/D conversion. The major computational experience for the studentsinvolves basic ekg rhythm analysis using Excel, using data collected from thestudents or (optionally) from an unknown subject. This is followed by a similaranalysis using MATLAB (in parallel with a required
, andprioritizing them appropriately.ExperimentalBiomechanics "Virtual Laboratory" Modules The primaryuse of this module is in an undergraduate Biomechanics class.The student level can be anywhere from sophomore throughsenior, provided that the students know basic aspects of staticand dynamics, as well as the use of spreadsheets and simpledata analysis tools.Free Body Diagram AssistantA web-based free body diagram assistant was developed toassist students with the construction of free body diagrams inbiomechanics. This is an interactive tool that allows students toplace vectors and couples on a 2-D drawing of an isolated body.Human Knee Joint Mechanics The primary learning objectiveof the module is to describe both the anatomy and functionalanatomy
Engineering Design I Fall quarter, Senior 3R-3L-4CBiomedical Engineering Design II Winter quarter, Senior 2R-6L-4CBiomedical Engineering Design III Spring quarter, Senior 1R-3L-2C Note: ‘R’ = lecture hours, ‘L’ = laboratory hours, ‘C’ = overall course credit.Principles of Biomedical Engineering DesignThis is the first course in the sequence, and students learn the design process through thecompletion of team projects. The quarter involves a complete iteration of the design process ona real device, from assessing needs, generating multiple feasible solutions, ranking these basedon the merit of the solutions