Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, and programming, (b) stark variations in the core interests of thestudents, and (c) cultural disparities between engineering departments regarding reasonablelevels of assignment difficulty and commensurate time investments. To help address some ofthese issues in a junior-level Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course, the author haschosen (for four recent Spring course offerings) to set aside two to three weeks of each 16-weekcourse for discretionary topics chosen by the students. Each student or student pair then takes onthe role of the instructor and teaches that topic to the rest of the students in the format of a 25-minute seminar. Students must assign homework to their peers and grade the results; thesegrades are then entered into

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

literature. In many courses, students areexpected to critically read and discuss journal articles provided by the instructor, as well as tofind their own articles for presentation or use in projects. The ability to fully utilize the primaryliterature is a skill that is not typically taught until graduate school, if at all. By providing ourstudents with these tools, they are equipped with the tools to learn new technical material ontheir own.Finally, communication skills are extensively developed through seminar-style discussion,formal and informal presentations and writing assignments, and poster presentations. Technicalpapers, such as literature reviews or a project reports, are common deliverables in BioE courses.A key component of teaching

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

companies to medical device risk4, andclinical trials in developing countries. At the University of Washington, Public Health Service-funded researchers are required to participate in the Biomedical Research Integrity (BRI)Program, which addresses conflict of interest, data acquisition and ownership, peer review,responsible authorship, and research misconduct. As a BRI discussion leader, the BIOEN 215instructor was able to incorporate real world examples from the BRI Program into the secondoffering of BIOEN 215, designed to specifically address the feedback from students during thefirst offering that ethics seems like a “common sense” issue (Table 1). BRI training is requiredfor many of the positions these students are striving towards. This helped

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ann E. Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2012-4192: SCAFFOLDING AND ASSESSING PROFESSIONAL DE-SIGN SKILLS USING AN ACTIVE-LEARNING STUDIO-STYLE CLASS-ROOMJamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Jamie Brugnano is a Ph.D candidate in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity. Her doctoral research is focused on intracellular drug delivery of peptide-based therapeutics for inflammatory applications. She earned her B.S. in biology from Harvey Mudd College. Her research inter- ests include tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and effective techniques to improve biomedical engineering education. She has six peer-reviewed publications and is committed to mentoring and

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology; Essy Behravesh, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

) Page 25.1105.4and suspension (HL-60) cell lines were selected based on available body of work in peer-reviewed literature, ease of culture, and flexibility in the type of projects for better studentengagement students.Facilitators in the revised lab course were encouraged to actively allow students to maketechnical but not strategic mistakes. For example, students were required to have proper positiveand negative controls in their experiments but allowed to err during a western blot as long astheir controls gave them clues about where the error might have occurred. Report discussiongrades were weighted heavily in the final grading to encourage a revisit of procedures andmethodologies that might have resulted in errors or limitations for the