development and deployment of a new, integrative, first-yearbiomedical engineering curriculum focused on studio-based learning of engineering design.Developed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff, this curriculum is team-taught(meaning, multiple faculty are in the studio at all times) by biomedical engineers, mechanicalengineers who specialize in design, a professor of English, a computer scientist, and amathematician. The foundation of the curriculum is the engineering design studio, which meetsfour hours per day, four days per week. The design studio has a different general theme for eachacademic quarter – for example, the Fall quarter theme is ‘Play for All,’ focusing on children’splay environments, toys, and games that are
from different fields and countries. Dr. Gulacar has developed and organized workshops about implementation of social constructivist methods and effective use of technological tools in science classrooms.Dr. Jennifer H. Choi, University of California, Davis Jennifer Choi is currently a Lecturer with potential for security of employment (LPSOE) in the Depart- ment of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UC Davis. In addition to teaching core undergraduate courses, Jennifer is aimed at integrating engineering design principles and hands-on experiences throughout the curriculum, and playing an active role in the senior design course. She has interests in engineering educa- tion, curricular innovation, as well as impacting
number of our undergraduates are interested in pursuingindustry careers in design and innovation and would benefit from open-ended context drivendesign experience in medicine that fosters observation skills, deep empathy, and needs-finding.These contextual skills have been found lacking among engineering graduates by nearly half ofrespondents in a survey of 1,622 employers [3]. A contextualized learning approach [4-5] inengineering education has been shown to improve student motivation, confidence, andconceptual understanding in a variety of studies [e.g. 6-7].To meet this “design gap” in our curriculum and to address the need for human-centeredcontextualized design experience for our students, we developed an upper-level elective courseentitled
memorization. The iterative thinkingprocess required to achieve even partial success in solving ambiguous problems not only activelyengages students, but has also been shown to improve learning and retention [4].Developing collaborative problem-solving skills, starting with the transformative freshmen year,provides students with the outlook and tools crucial for academic and professional success [5],[6]. Integrating design into the first semester exposes students to the complex process of creating,assessing, selecting, and realizing an initial prototype [7, 8]. By incorporating a fun foam coredesign project, students gain exposure to the design process such that many of them arecomfortable designing their own equipment for their final project. More
Paper ID #22360Designing an Interprofessional Educational Undergraduate Clinical Experi-enceDr. Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University Barbara J. Muller-Borer, PhD is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Cardiovascular Sci- ences and the Director of the Cell-Based Therapy and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at East Carolina University. She serves as the graduate program director for the MS in Biomedical Engineering program and oversees curriculum development and assessment for both the undergraduate biomedical engineering concentration and graduate programs in the Department of Engineering. She received
correlating course content across the broader curriculum. The data shows that afterthe change in course structure, more students felt that course content was integrated withother courses in the curriculum. This is believed to be a direct result of delivering active-learning and problem solving sessions In-Lab. We speculate that this increase in studentresponse was also a result of two indirect, yet beneficial, changes that were a result of thecourse structure change in 2015. 1) More direct and immediate feedback was given tostudents as a result of the increased student to instructor ratio (lecture faculty available inall lab sections, along with lab coordinator and two teaching assistants); providing thefaculty an opportunity to adjust the content to
new hybrid masters program combining medicine and en- gineering and also has led multiple curricular initiative in Bioengineering and the College of Engineering on several NSF funded projects.Gabriella R Dupont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am a MEng student in Bioengineering, with a BS, Bioengineering, both from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am interested in biomechanics and how curriculum structure affects education outcomes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Creating an Engineering-based medical school to address a critical gap in medical innovationIntroductionHealthcare and medicine will change dramatically in
senior design courses, which is due inpart to ABET prescribed use of engineering standards in a culminating design experience [4].The use of engineering standards in senior design courses is vital; however, research supportsthat in order to attain a high degree of competence, learners must develop skills, integrate them,and know how to apply them, requiring repeated exposure and practice [5]. Integratingengineering standards throughout the curriculum can strengthen students’ understanding of whatstandards are and how to apply them effectively in senior design [1] and their careers.BackgroundIn 2014, an ABET review identified a weakness in the use of engineering standards in our BMEprogram. As a first step, the use of engineering standards became
their questions outside of the class timeframe. In large-size college classes, usingemails and online office hours have been introduced as effective substitutions for face-to-faceoffice hours [1-4]. Moreover, cooperative learning has repeatedly proven to have positiveimpacts on students’ educational experience [3,5]. Cooperative learning, which can beincorporated in classes of any size, enables students to improve their social and team-workingskills. In addition, cooperative learning provides an opportunity for students to discuss theirquestions and overcome challenges within their groups without forming long lines outside theinstructor’s office during office hours.Nevertheless, for certain technical courses in engineering curriculum
highlyvalues familiarity with these topics in biomedical engineering (BME) undergraduates; there is agrowing demand for professionals who possess a combination of both technical knowledge andregulatory affairs [1]. However, it is challenging to instruct students on these inherently drytopics, particularly in the absence of practical applications.Recognizing that expertise in any of these areas is an impractical goal for undergraduatestudents, BME programs have implemented several different approaches to provide a workingknowledge of these topics to equip graduates for work in the medical device industry. Theseapproaches range from entire courses devoted to singular topics, such as medical deviceregulation [2], to lectures integrated into the capstone
- gineering and also has led multiple curricular initiative in Bioengineering and the College of Engineering on several NSF funded projects.Gabriella R Dupont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am a MEng student in Bioengineering, with a BS, Bioengineering, both from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am interested in biomechanics and how curriculum structure affects education outcomes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Are we on Track with Tracks?It is challenging to achieve technical depth in an undergraduate Bioengineering curriculum dueto the implicit breadth of multidisciplinary technical content underlying the field. Moreover
Paper ID #23226Work in Progress: Streamlining the Biomedical Engineering Design ProcessDr. Olga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering Olga Imas, Ph.D., 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
Paper ID #23188Work in Progress: Healthcare Economics and Information Literacy - Re-sources for Success in Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering EducationMr. Alexander James Carroll, North Carolina State University Alex Carroll is the Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology at the NCSU Libraries. He facilitates faculty research and offers curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction to students in the College of Textiles and the College of Engineering, with particular emphasis on areas that intersect with human and animal health. Alex received his BA from James Madison University, and his MSLS from
Paper ID #23450Work in Progress: Bridging Research and Entrepreneurship - Master’s Cer-tificate in Translational Biomedical Research at Northwestern UniversityDr. Gloria J Kim, Northwestern University Gloria Kim is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She also a courtesy faculty member with the Department of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the University of Florida. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Seoul National University, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia
Paper ID #23786Work in Progress: Biomedical Prototype Design in Collaborative Teams toIncrease Students’ Comprehension and EngagementKiersten Lenz, University of New Mexico Kiersten Lenz is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in Biomedical Engineering. She has previous experience as a secondary science teacher at the high school level. Based on her observations as both a teacher and a student, Kiersten believes that the most effective way to teach is through creative lesson plans paired with collaborative problem-based learning.Prof. Eva Chi, University of New Mexico Eva Chi is an Associate Professor in
Paper ID #23533Work in Progress: The Use of Scaffolding and Peer Reviews to Improve Ef-fective Writing Skills in Biomedical EngineersDr. C. LaShan Simpson, Mississippi State University Dr. Simpson received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Clemson University. Her doctoral research focused on developing cell therapy treatments for vascular calcification. Her research interests were in targeted therapies and she strengthened her polymer expertise during her postdoctoral training at Rice University. Her postdoctoral work focused on injectable gene therapy for bone grafting. As an independent researcher, her work is focused on
an formal assessment of the methodology and preset it as a full paper. Works Cited1. Newstetter, W. C. (2006). Fostering integrative problem solving in biomedical engineering: the PBL approach. Annals of biomedical engineering, 34(2), 217-225.2. Mason, G. S., Shuman, T. R., & Cook, K. E. (2013). Comparing the effectiveness of an inverted classroom to a traditional classroom in an upper-division engineering course. IEEE Transactions on Education, 56(4), 430-435.3. Johnson, David W., Roger T. Johnson, and Karl A. Smith. Cooperative Learning Returns to College What Evidence Is There That It Works? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 30.4 (1998): 26-35.
Paper ID #22634Connecting Theoretical Concepts to Physical Phenomena Using 3-D-printedMicrofluidic DevicesDr. Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware Sarah I. Rooney is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Delaware, where she seeks to bring evidence-based teaching practices to the undergraduate curriculum. She received her B.S.E. (2009) and M.S.E. (2010) in Biomed- ical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and her Ph.D. (2015) in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Mr. Peter A. Sariano,Mr
program and teaches curriculum, instruction, & as- sessment courses to undergraduate and graduate secondary education students. Jennifer’s research focus on urban high school reform is informed by nine years of teaching in Chicago Public Schools, giving her an informed perspective of how policy moves from theory to practice. Dr. Olson’s current research interests include urban teacher preparation, teacher professional development and student voice. Her most recent publication in Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching and Research Becoming A Culturally Responsive Teacher: The Impact Of Clinical Experiences In Urban Schools focuses on elementary and secondary teacher candidates’ perspectives of how their clinical
(from a school that scores poorly on theToronto District School Board’s learning opportunities index) to integrate IBBME teaching labfacilities into their biology, chemistry, and physics curriculum and have their grades 11 and 12students address biomedical engineering design challenges in this environment. Each graduatestudent project team was required to accomplish 4 tasks: 1) propose a theme related tobiomedical engineering based on a single thesis and 2, 3, 4) propose suitable activities that couldbe used in the Discovery program for biology, chemistry, and physics high school students. Graduate Course Discovery Program Knowledge translation Activities completed by
Paper ID #21504Exploring Biomedical Engineering Students’ Self-Raised Motivations for En-gaging in Instructional DesignJacqueline Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline Handley is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, in Science Education. Her back- ground is in Material Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on Biomaterials Design. She is inter- ested in, broadly, how best bridge engineering practice and education. More specifically, she is interested in access to and inclusion in engineering at the K-12 level.Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan Aileen is faculty in Engineering Education and
, consistent student teams or groups as implemented here, may contribute tothe social integration of first-year students. However, this is dependent on the formation ofeffective student teams which may involve more thought on the part of the instructor. There are limitations of the active learning implementation method and this assessmentstudy that should be noted. Specifically, the addition of in-class collaborative learning activitieswithout any out-of-class videos to offset instructional content necessitated a slight reduction inthe level of detail covered during lectures. Due to the structure of the curriculum in the School ofBiomedical Engineering, this reduction is not expected to have any effect on future studentsuccess in the program
, as both an accelerated (5 week) study abroadexperience in the United Kingdom and as a standard on-campus course. This course, taught bythe second author, utilizes real world scenarios or “challenges” as a lens through whichbiotransport content is delivered, practiced, and assessed.From a position of curriculum development and education policy, we recognize that inquiry-based learning (IBL) (i.e. challenge based instruction, problem/project based learning) are non-standard in engineering teaching. There are a plethora of rationales provided for this low rate ofadoption, including insufficient faculty-teacher preparation to execute IBL, time constraints onprofessors in their teaching role, and necessity of direct instruction to establish
semesteras part of the MSOT curriculum. Occupational therapy students are asked to build a prototype ofa custom assistive technology (AT) device and provide a training manual for this original design.An expectation of this assignment is that the occupational therapy students articulate theinspiration for their low technology device and how they envision this will increase ease andindependent participation in an individual’s valued task or activity. The prototypes are expectedto be well-constructed, safe, and easy to use and do what the student says it will do. In creatingtheir prototype, the occupational therapy students focus on universal design, rather than designfor an individual. This assignment was developed as a kinesthetic learning
in the department of biomedical engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico Mayag¨uez, and a M.S. and PhD in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University. His current position entails teaching measurements and instrumentation courses, leading micro and nano educational labs, as well as mentoring students in their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Amena Shermadou, Ohio State University Amena Shermadou is an Engineering Education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She
Paper ID #21603Sustainable Development Challenge For BMEProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Dr. Joseph (Joe) Tranquillo is an Associate Professor at Bucknell University in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering, He is also co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management, co-director of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Program, and chair of the Biomedical Engineer- ing Division of ASEE. Tranquillo has published three undergraduate textbooks and numerous engineering education publications, and has presented internationally on engineering and education. His work has been featured