Conference Session

Biomedical Engineers and Professional Development - June 23rd

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

be a better mediator of affect – how one feels about a task – while thelatter is a better mediator of academic achievement [4]. Further, self-concept may positivelyinfluence self-efficacy.We hypothesized that BME students’ self-concepts and feelings of self-efficacy might relate totheir unusual career goals (relatively speaking, among engineering fields). We therefore soughtto explore BME students’ career self-concept as engineers and as clinicians, and the relationshipof those self-concepts to engineering design self-efficacy [5]. Both constructs are measured viainstruments that rely on self-declarations – also known as explicit measures. Self-declarations, orexplicit measures, of self-concept carry with them the concern of unreliability

Conference Session

Introduction to the Field of Biomedical Engineering - June 25th

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nicole M. Iverson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Biomedical Engineering

by self-efficacy andoutcome expectations derived from learning experiences. Limited exposure to biomedicalengineering topics and engagement in exploration could lead to students not having a well-developed individual interest [9] or finding interests that endure into a career choice, resulting inattrition from the field. To put this more concretely, if students’ exposure to biomedicalengineering is only focused on prosthetics, that might be initially interesting to them; but if thatinterest is lost, then interest in biomedical engineering as a whole is compromised. Withoutexposure to the many areas associated with biomedical engineering, students cannot proceedfrom triggered situational interest to maintained situational interest; meaning

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Curriculum and Design - June 24th

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Steven Higbee, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sharon Miller, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Biomedical Engineering

ourprogram. Moving forward, we aim to develop instruments or adapt published instruments thatmore objectively measure student self-efficacy toward design [19] for use in our program and,more generally, in the context of biomedical engineering education. Bandura proposes four mainsources of efficacy information: performance accomplishments, vicarious experience, verbalpersuasion, and physiological states [20]. We aim to contribute to an understanding of howstudent design confidence relates to such described mechanisms for changes in self-efficacy.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning for their supportvia the Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) and for moderating focus groups.References[1] J.E. Froyd

Conference Session

Introduction to the Field of Biomedical Engineering - June 25th

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine; Beth A. Lopour, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

andthrough programming during the laboratory sessions, students were able to learn about thesefundamentals without requiring a prerequisite of AP Calculus.Through in class activities and lectures by the instructional team and those in the field, studentsgained knowledge that they were able to apply to a real-world application of BCIs in thelaboratory modules. This structured learning approach allowed the students to use lowercognitive processes of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy to generate, plan, and produce novelsolutions from an existing ones by optimizing the BCI maze [16]. Furthermore, the studentsurvey results highlight the importance of having an instructional team with positive teacherattitudes and high self-efficacy about the fields of BME and

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineers and Professional Development - June 23rd

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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Biomedical Engineering

learning and development [1]. Broadly, studies of student engagement have oftenexamined relationships between a student’s educational experiences and the outcomes of interest,finding that, in general, higher engagement was linked to gains in outcomes such as learning andpersistence [2], [3]. In particular, engagement in co-curricular settings, or experiences outside theclassroom, has been linked to the development of several technical and professional outcomesfor engineering students such as leadership, ethical decision making, teamwork, andcommunication [4]–[9]. Beyond those outcomes, co-curricular engagement has also been linkedto outcomes such as self-efficacy and a sense of belonging, which can improve retention andpersistence in engineering

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Curriculum and Design - June 24th

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kelsey Nicole Warren, Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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Biomedical Engineering

: 10.1109/ISECon.2014.6891046.[10] J. J. Pembridge and K. J. Rodgers. “Examining Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset in an Introductory Computing Course,” IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2018, doi: 10.1109/FIE.2018.8658728.[11] S. Fantini, C. Bennis, and D. Kaplan. “Biomedical Engineering Continues to Make the Future,” IEEE Pulse, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 70–73, Jul. 2011, doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2011.941720.[12] Aspiring Docs. “What You Need to Know About the MCAT® Exam,” 2020, https://students-residents.aamc.org/choosing-medical-career/article/preparing-mcat-exam/.[13] “ABET | ABET Accreditation,” ABET | ABET Accreditation, 2020, https://www.abet.org/.[14] J. D. Gassert and J. D. Enderle