Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Estefania Alvarez, Clemson University; Steven Saville, Clemson University; O. Thompson Mefford, Clemson University; John DesJardins, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

8this lab applied to the overall research question at hand. Many examples of peer reviewedprofessional biomedical engineering society 1 page abstracts were provided to the students aspart of the introductory workshop on abstract writing. In addition, an abstract template wasprovided to assist the students in formatting and section descriptions. Refer to the Appendix toreview this abstract template. To remain consistent as possible with the evaluation of the writing of the students, abstractswere judged based on the rubric below. Upon evaluation, students were given assistance andsuggestions on areas which they could improve. The rubric also allowed students to self-evaluate efforts before submitting a completed assignment. The abstracts

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

club (or how to find and read a research article), discussions on laboratory etiquette andresearch ethics. Participants were then integrated into their research mentors laboratory, andspent eight weeks on a research project. The program has two Peer Mentors, who areundergraduates with research experience, that live with the students and participate in theresearch project. The mentors are also responsible for additional social and academic activitiesduring nights and weekends. This paper describes the program, evaluations and critiques fromthe first year (from both research mentors and participants), as well as the challenges andopportunities the program presents to future “Research Experience for Undergraduates”programs. Surveys will continue

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

features of theSMART Notebook software (Figure2) were used to show the correctanswers to each question, and discussquestions that proved problematic.Quizzes were given daily during thefirst 15 minutes of the 75 minuteclass session. Each quiz covered theprevious two lectures material,ideally forcing students to twicestudy each lecture. This amounted to24 individual quizzes that accountedfor 50% of their class grade. Thelowest two quiz scores were dropped.The only other graded elements ofthe course were centered on a largewriting assignment in which students Figure 2: Review of answers at the end of each quizwork in teams to write a review included a pie-chart of class answers to identifyarticle and engage in peer review. problem

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego; Melissa Micou, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Education, 2010 Evaluation of PeerWise as an Educational Tool for BioengineersAbstractThere is a need to develop, validate, and widely implement tools that incorporate proveneducational strategies including collaborative learning, active learning, and peer tutoring.PeerWise is an innovative, web-based system in which students create multiple-choice questionsand answer those created by their classmates. Creating the question bank, rather than justaccessing an existing one transforms students from passive recipients to active learners. Theobjectives of this study were to characterize the use of PeerWise in a lower divisionbioengineering course and to measure its efficacy in improving student learning. Students whoused PeerWise performed

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

range of devices both in and outsideof the clinical environment which make use of bioelectricity principles.In both our first offering of this course last year, and again this spring, each student carries out anindividual project according to the following guidelines. “Projects in this course entail the following: Each student identifies an individual project on a topic pertinent to Bioelectricity in conjunction with the instructor, Each topic needs to go beyond what we will cover in the course otherwise, Within the topic chosen, the student identifies a good peer-reviewed journal article (review or specific study) that the entire class will read, Each student designs and carries out

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Vargis, Vanderbilt University; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

examples).One homework assignment was given during the module, looking at different Raman signaturesfor molecules and student's ability at disseminating information from research papers. One take-home test was given at the end of the module. See appendix for more information.Go PublicIn pairs, students designed a 1-2 page study guide on a different technique than the onesdescribed in class. Their peers used this study guide on their take-home exam. See appendix for Page 15.680.6the rubric used in grading the study guide.Assessing Legacy CycleThe success of adding a LC module to the class was assessed using three methods. The first wasby having 3

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Reseachers Figure 9. small, especially for advancedcourses, and so self-publishing seems appropriate. For 50 years or more teachers haveself-published text material. In one of the author’s experience in 1960 one of his professors didan entire undergraduate service course in engineering on “dittos”, with hand writing, typing andhand sketches. The advent of the Xerox machine in the 60’s made it possible to incorporate partsof printed text material, especially figures, graphs and tables, and university reproduction centerscould use offset printing to provide alternative text material. Now Modern computer-generateddocuments using a word