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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

project that has as its primaryaim to address algorithmic thinking.The paper is organized in the following way. Background is presented on how the projectfits into the overall introduction to computing course. Next is a detailed outline of theproject assignments. A related detour is then taken to discuss a class-wide groupprogramming exercise called The Triangle Game. Assessment from student and theinstructor are presented as well as ABET assessment associated with the project. Lastly,recommendations are made for improvements and alternative implementations of theproject.BackgroundThe semester-long project was incorporated into a half-credit (two formal lectures andone recitation per week), required junior-level biomedical engineering course

Conference Session

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

Leadership Development and Learning Technologies. She is currently the Chair, MSN Advance Practice Role Program, Coordinator of Informatics Projects and Associate Clin- ical Professor at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Profession teaching in both under- graduate and graduate programs. She is a board certified nurse informaticist and an NLN certified nurse educator. Her area of research involves student learning, development of clinical decision making skills, faculty development in integration and application of instructional technology for classroom innovations and simulation learning experiences, virtual learning environments for DL, and information seeking be- haviors among students and professionals in

Conference Session

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

to the real chromatography system; 5. use the real BioLogic LP Chromatography System to purify proteins.At Montgomery County Community College, the Virtual Liquid Chromatography Laboratorywas used to teach student interns working on an industry- college collaboration project thatinvolved testing chromatography resins for their potential application in the biomanufacturingindustry. Prior to performing experiments students used the virtual learning module in all threemodes. First, they became familiar with the system components running the simulation in theequipment mode. The process mode was extremely helpful in teaching the students the correctorder of events for successfully performing the experiment and gave them confidence in theirability

Conference Session

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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faculty members acknowledge that the scheduling of the SSCI was not identical for the twogroups. Logistical complexities prohibited the tests from being administered after the sameamount of time following the courses for students in both curricula. While more time hadelapsed for students in the pevioius curriculum, they may also have had some conceptsreinforced in other classes and in their senior design project during this intervening time. Toaddress the shortcomings of the study arising from different testing schedules, the faculty intendsto administer follow-up SSCI exams to the cohort in the new curriculum. In addition, the facultywill develop new assessment tools, such as surveys and interviews, that will allow a triangulationapproach to be

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

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Biomedical

requirements and pros and cons of different sources of capital. 5. Abilities to apply knowledge about intellectual property to strategically create barriers to entry for competitors. 6. Abilities to plan and manage a design project to complete specified deliverables within allotted time and budget. 7. Abilities to organize, improve, and contribute effectively to a multidisciplinary project team. 8. Abilities to access, learn, process, and demonstrate knowledge competence to advance a team-based entrepreneurial engineering project. 9. Abilities to explain and demonstrate ethical and professional responsibility in the context of team interactions, class assignments, client interactions, and professional

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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

biomechanicalengineering students, which can significantly prolong their 4-years to 6-years college life.WWW-based e-Learning enables students to learn medical knowledge (i.e., human anatomy andphysiology) that are needed in solving their PBL problems or DBL projects on their own pace, attheir preferred time and location. In addition, e-Learning allows students to select learningmaterials that meet their level of knowledge and interest. The overall purpose of the project was to develop an interdisciplinary course formechanical engineering students with an emphasis on student-centered education and use ofinformation technology. This project integrated WWW-based e-Learning, PBL and DBL toimprove our engineering students’ knowledge and skills in orthopedic

Conference Session

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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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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Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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students devote considerable effort to the design and developmentof their projects, but that they are not as motivated to devote time and effort to writing. As aresult, their final reports often have significant problems with organization, clarity, andeffectiveness. Therefore, we recently adopted several new strategies to improve the quality ofstudent writing. Our goals were to 1) encourage students to work on their writing earlier andthroughout the semester; 2) engage every student in each team in the writing process; 3) usewriting as a tool to improve students’ understanding of the clinical problem that they areaddressing and how their design addresses their client’s needs; and 4) improve the quality of thefinal reports.To achieve these goals

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christopher L. Brace, University of Wisconsin; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical

established the 10 educational program outcomes listed in Table 1. AnAssessment Committee was formed in 2006 and charged with developing a continuousimprovement process linked to educational objectives that could provide quantitative feedbackon strengths and potential areas of improvement of the program and assess the impact of changesto the curriculum.Our curriculum is unique nationwide. Design courses throughout the curriculum form a uniquefeature of the BME undergraduate degree program3, 4. Every BME student registers for a designcourse and works on a client-based design project every semester for six consecutive semesters.These design courses are supervised by faculty advisors and meet for two hours per week.Therefore, every BME student has

Conference Session

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

travelopportunities ties and project foundations. In February of 2009, students traveled to El Salvador tocomplete their first hospital and clinic assessment. Based upon the information gathered, theengineering crew returned in November of 2009 to remodel a clinic in prepar preparation ation for a nursingstudent-led health service trip which took place February 2011. Since the organization’s birth,the scope has expanded to include Nicaragua, Guatemala, and even ven right at home in Milwaukee.Students are finding that there are abundant opportunities all around the world and at homewhere they can

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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

AC 2011-1256: DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERTHROUGH A 12-MONTH INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. AND CHINABarbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology Barbara Burks Fasse is an educational psychologist and senior research scientist in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives– specifically Problem-Based and Project-Based Inquiry Learning– in classrooms, in- structional labs, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007 following ten years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aura Gimm, Duke University; Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kevin Caves, Duke University; Robert Malkin, Duke University

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Biomedical

experience can be limiting for both student learningand the depth that project teams can achieve. While providing challenging engineering problems,all capstone design courses address basic principles of engineering design, teamwork, technicalcommunications, ethics, and professionalism. In this paper, we will discuss how a few simpledesign challenges have been used in three capstone design courses to practice and applyengineering design principles and problem solving skills. These challenges are relativelyinexpensive to implement and could be done in teams or individually. The competitive aspectsof the challenges can further motivate students. The design challenge goals can be tailored tofocus on specific aspects of design practice or skills, such as

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gail Baura, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences; Tiffany Berry, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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Biomedical

, three recent engineering education engineering initiatives wereidentified and investigated. The BME Council of Chairs held an educational workshop in concertwith the 2010 BMES annual meeting. While the workshop description stated that industryrepresentatives would participate, no industry presentations were given. 7 IEEE and IBM jointlyhosted a four day summit on Transforming Engineering Education in Ireland in 2010. In thesummary of the summit proceedings, a follow-on activity listed by the program chair was todevelop “a concrete list of ‘desired but missing’ skills, mostly by industry” by Spring, 2011. 8 Intheir Vision 2030 project, the ASME Center for Engineering Task Force was asked to “define theknowledge, skills and abilities that

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Sanghoon Lee, University of Virginia; Shing Wai Yam, University of Virginia; William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

requirements, laboratory atmosphere, and miscellaneous preferences.Basic requirements included the academic year of the student, the students’ grade point averageand any threshold requirement the lab may set in that regard, majors and minors, the timecommitment expected, and what compensation (money, academic credit, or nothing) is offeredor desired, and when (fall, spring, or summer) research may be performed.Atmosphere describes the lab environment. This includes lab size, whether there are labmeetings or social get-togethers, and lab type – that is, research-based versus design-based, wetlab versus dry lab, and whether the labs usually undertake individual or team projects. It alsoincludes who does the undergraduate research mentoring for a given

Conference Session

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

studentscan work in teams on their projects (Appendix A and B), was an excellent idea. Studentsstressed that they wanted both options (individual and team-based) to be available to futurestudents. They also supported the idea of creating a 3-credit freshman-level class to introducebioengineering in the context of engineering design, in replacement of the first course of the oldBIOEN program, a 2-credit “BIOEN Tools” class, which taught some specific technical skillsbut did not provide any kind of introduction to the bioengineering field (Appendix A and B).Some students in 2009 expressed concern about removing the Java programming CSE courserequirement from the curriculum. However, the faculty elected to establish this as an electivecourse so students

Conference Session

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

 fiber‐reinforced or laminar ceramic‐polymer composites for bone replacement (Figure 1) and characterize the mechanical properties.    In this activity, the materials typically used for bone replacement were substituted with cost‐effect equivalents.  For instance, the ceramic phase employed in this activity is calcium sulfate hemihydrate (plaster of Paris), which substitutes for the more commonly used hydroxyapatite cements.  In the fiber‐reinforced composites, nylon and polyester string of varying diameters was used instead of sutures (9) or silk fibers (10).  For layered composites, a sheet of flexible nylon mesh fabric can substitute for the costly resorbable meshes that have been studied (11, 12).  The project, spanning two

Conference Session

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

research projects. As CSULA begins todevelop this BME program, we have aimed to make the limited opportunities available to ourstudents in BME thus far as enriching as possible.Over the past year, we have exploited the unique user interface of the HP Tablet PC to restructurethe teaching / student learning paradigm in the Biomedical Instrumentation course and to involvestudents in a biomedical engineering research project. Our objectives were to engage students inlearning BME course material by incorporating a technological gadget which students find funand interesting in and of itself, provide an avenue for interaction with the teacher and otherstudents, and aid instruction by allowing for an engaging method for on-the-spot assessment andfeedback

Conference Session

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

. Page 22.1057.3Pedagogical MotivationThe motivation to start this project was originated from the idea, “A picture is worth/better than athousand words”, i.e., using pictorial description would be superior to the text-only description.We extended the idea, “A moving picture is better than a static picture,” (by using Adobe FlashPlayer or Media Player). Furthermore, we added, “An interactive moving picture is better than asimple moving picture,” (by adding interactivities). Ultimately, our goal is to build an onlineuser-interactive teaching/learning system, featuring animation and simultion for physicalprinciples, mathematical derivations and engineering implementations, so as to fulfill themedical imaging education tasks optimally. By this

Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Kelly Laas, Illinois Institute of Technology, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

AC 2011-2272: A STUDENT-CENTERED COURSE FOR INTEGRATIONOF ETHICS INTO A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPE-RIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATESEric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Research Illinois Institute of TechnologyKelly Laas, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology Kelly Laas is the Librarian/Information Researcher at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology. During her four years at the Center, she has supervised a number of projects relating to the development of online ethics resources and collections, including the

Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

problems at the interface of engineering and biology. a-4 Apply knowledge of math, science and engineering.b) An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data b-1 Design experiments for hypothesis testing. b-2 Measurement and data interpretation skills from living systems b-3 Basic circuit analysis and troubleshooting skills b-4 Statistical data analysis skillsc) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs c-1 CAD skills c-2 Mechanical, fabrication and manufacturing skills c-3 Prototyping skills c-4 Needs assessment skills c-5 Project planning skills c-6 Medical devices design skillsd) An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams d-1

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England College; Michael J. Rust, Western New England College; Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Richard D. Beach, Western New England College; Jason A Criscuolo, Western New England College

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Biomedical

Awards Dinner and and Icebreakers Medical Ethics: Game Night Engineering 6 – 9 PM Scavenger Hunt Movie and 6 – 9 PM Design Projects 7 – 9 PM Discussion 7 – 9 PM 7 – 9 PMMicroscopyThis activity introduced participants to various techniques of microscopy, including opticalmicroscopy, scanning electron