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Laboratories and Projects in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Biomedical

that will be ingreat demand nationwide15. During the development of the biomedical instrumentationlaboratory, existing educational materials and teaching strategies based on the prior results of thecourses offered to students of Engineering Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, andCollege of Nursing and Health Professions will be revised and exchanged.The CurriculumTier 1 – Clinical EnvironmentThe Clinical Simulations Laboratories are based at the College of Nursing and HealthProfessions. This integrated hardware and software system includes multidisciplinary casescenario building functionalities, live & archived viewing of simulation encounters, manual orautomatic recording capabilities, documentation of learner behaviors

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Laboratories and Projects in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yakov Cherner, ATEL, LLC; Sonia Sparks Wallman; Margaret Bryans, Montgomery County Community College; Marina Taranova, Southern Federal University, Russia

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Biomedical

for biomanufacturing education, training and theworkforce, the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative (NBC2) developsinstructional materials and resources, based on harmonized biopharmaceutical manufacturingindustry skill standards. These learning and teaching resources, available in printed and onlineformats form a Global Biomanufacturing Curriculum to support biomanufacturing education andtraining. As a part of our educational efforts, we designed the first module of a comprehensiveinteractive virtual learning environment for biomanufacturing – a virtual low pressure liquidchromatography laboratory based on NBC2 equipment and process SOPs utilizing a BioLogicLow Pressure (LP) Chromatography System made by Bio-Rad Laboratories

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Laboratories and Projects in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

assignments appearat the end of each chapter and counted for 15% of the final grade. The text will soon beavailable through Morgan and Claypool’s Biomedical Engineering Lectures Series. Toevaluate students on progress through the self-guided text, short quizzes wereadministered each week and counted toward 25% of the final grade. Professionalism (e.g.attendance, class conduct) accounted for 10% of the grade, with the remaining 50%allocated to the project.Overall PhilosophyAt the core of the semester-long project were two concepts. The first was Coding toThink, which parallels the movement of Writing to Think (13, 24). Briefly, thephilosophy of Writing to Think is to teach writing as a process by which the writer willorganize, clarify and connect

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Laboratories and Projects in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jeffrey A. Lamack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Olga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh, Milwaukee School of Engineering; NE Schlick, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Charles S. Tritt, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Ron Gerrits, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Biomedical

on a part-time basis.Dr. Jeffrey A. LaMack, Milwaukee School of EngineeringOlga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering Olga Imas, PhD is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engi- neering, where she teaches a variety of courses in biomedical digital signal processing, medical imaging, computing in biomedical engineering, biomaterials, anatomy and physiology. In addition to her academic responsibilities, she acts as a consultant to GE Healthcare for product development with emphasis on advanced imaging applications for neurology, cardiology, and oncology. Olga’s technical areas of exper- tise include signal and imaging processing, and statistical analysis. In her previous and

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BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge E. Bohorquez, University of Miami; Ozcan Ozdamar, University of Miami; Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen, University of Miami

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Biomedical

Biomedical Engineering of the University of Miami were directs the Biomedical Design and Instrumentation Laboratory and teaches Se- nior/Master Design Project, Biomedical Instrumentation, Microcomputer based medical instrumentation and Bio-signal processing. He mentors multidisciplinary teams of students, mainly interested in the de- sign of novel bio-electric devices. In his teams he integrates students at different academic levels from undergraduate to PhD. In research he is affiliated with the Neurosensory Laboratory where he performs research in audiology, ophthalmology, anesthesia and neurology. Collaborating with researchers of the Miller School of Medicine, he develops and validates novel Electrophysiological

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BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Weizhao Zhao, University of Miami; Xiping Li; Fabrice Manns, University of Miami

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Biomedical

. Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, Oct. 2005.35. Vandenberghe S, Asseler Y, Van de Walle R, Kauppinen T, Koole M, Bouwens L, Van Laere K, Lemahieu I and Dierckx R: Iterative reconstruction algorithms in nuclear medicine. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 25:105-111, 2001.36. Virtual Imaging Laboratory, Duke University URL: http://dukemil.egr.duke.edu/37. Wangel M, Neimitukia L, Katila T, and Soimakallio S: WWW – an effective way of teaching radiology. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 66:91-98, 2001.38. Zeng G: Image reconstruction – a tutorial. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 25:97-103, 2001

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BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University

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Biomedical

. Page 22.135.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Active and Cooperative Learning Activities for Introducing Undergraduate Students to BiomaterialsAbstractBiomaterials science is a relatively new interdisciplinary field. Because of the increasingprevalence of musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases, there is anecessity to engineer biomaterials that can be used to treat these painful and debilitatingdisorders. The overall objective of this initiative is to teach our undergraduate studentsconcepts in the research, development, and clinical application of biomaterials. Twoopen-ended laboratory activities, one developed for freshman and the other

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Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; David W. Gatchell, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

Engineering Research Center. He joined the BME depart- ment at IIT in 2007, where he is interested in problems associated with molecular and cellular engineer- ing, specifically the computational modeling of cellular migration. David teaches several courses within the BME department, most notably the senior design capstone sequence (BME 419 and 420) which he co-instructs with Dr. Jennifer Kang Derwent. He also is the lead instructor for IPRO 2.0, an interdisci- plinary project-based course required of all undergraduate at IIT. David collaborates actively with IIT’s entrepreneurship academy as well as its math and science education department. David is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the American

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Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles

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Biomedical

AC 2011-1073: ENGAGING CSULA ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN BIOMED-ICAL ENGINEERING LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITH THE TABLET PCDeborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) Deborah Won joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CSULA as an Assistant Professor in Januray 2009. Her specialization is in biomedical engineering, and she has launched 3 new courses in biomedical engineering. She also enjoy teaching a variety of courses ranging from electronics to signal processing. She conducts research in the area of bioelectrical communication.Huiping Guo, California State University, Los AngelesJianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles

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Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Naiquan (Nigel) Zheng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Biomedical

initiate the learning process in accordanceto their own preference, learning styles, and various skills9. DBL approach motivates students tolearn because of the more obvious application of their knowledge to real life situations8. TheDBL approach encourages active learning, creativity, team work and enthusiasm. Teaching engineering students some basic human anatomy, especially themusculoskeletal system, is important to their preparation to be a qualified orthopedic engineer(such as designer and developer of an orthopedic implant). However, in tradition, most learningis carried out in dissection laboratories. Recently WWW-based interactive images, anatomysoftware applications have made significant progress2, 5, 12, 17, 21, 23. PBL

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Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Kelli Jayn Nichols, University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Bioengineering; Laura Wright, University of Washington; Christopher Neils, University of Washington

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Biomedical

discussedwhat they would like bioengineering undergraduates to know regarding problem solving,laboratory techniques, and modeling.ResultsThe major charges from industry regarding what bioengineering programs should teach theirstudents include: 1) oral presentation, team work, and communication skills, 2) stringent labdocumentation practices, 3) fundamentals of the FDA regulatory process, and 4) statisticalanalysis techniques.Assessing the New Curriculum: Current Student FeedbackFeedback sessions from 2009 and 2010 involving current seniors, already described, were usedto obtain qualitative data regarding student satisfaction with specific proposed curriculumchanges. A consensus was reached that the addition of a second Capstone option, where

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Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Biomedical

immerseundergraduate students in the research community by giving them a full year of lab experiencethat also offers a global perspective on research challenges and opportunities in the field ofbiomedical engineering. It is our hope that this will inspire students not only to enter a graduateprogram, but also to seek a program with an international component.An additional, and equally important, goal of CURE is to build relationships between personnelin the three collaborating institutions by linking the collaborators and their work with each otherthrough these students. We conceptualized the participating student as a resource that would beshared by the collaborating laboratories and, thus, would be prepared by the Georgia TechTech/Emory PIs and mentors to

Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Biomedical

interface of engineering, medicine and ethics, while allowing students ofdiffering majors to explore areas of BmE of interest to them.Given that so much of the course depended on instructor-class interactions, where significant un-scripted (but theme-driven) information was exchanged, the students were required to take notesin a bound laboratory notebook. A secondary goal of the notebook requirement was to encouragestudents to learn to take good notes. The quality and content of a student’s note-taking for eachlecture was graded every two or three weeks based on whether the essence of the lecture (i.e., its3 to 6 main points) and enough supporting material (like graphs) were captured such that thenotebook could serve as a later introductory

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Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Ida O'Connor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Linda Young, MSOE School of Nursing; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Biomedical

in action.This leads into what may be seen as one of the limitations of the university education inbiomedical engineering. Universities today have attained top of the line environments for “realworld” engineering application laboratory and design processes. However, students find thatdespite having a solid education of applying theory to engineering ingenuity, there is littleexposure to existing equipment. Sure, classes build a strong backbone of basic and complexprinciples on which we create designs from the ground up, but there is also value in seeing whatis already out on the market and how current products fair with the human interaction. Armedwith this knowledge and searching for a source of information on hospital assessments, the