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
agreed that it increased their interest in the field ofneuroscience. Furthermore, 87.5% of the students reported that the program increased theirinterest in pursuing scientific research as a career, and 91.67% of the students reported that itincreased their interest in obtaining a graduate degree.With advancements in hardware and open source software, the authors were able to develop anovel low-cost approach for introducing neuroscience, BME, and BCIs to high school students.Future work will expand the program to other BCI applications and developing online lecturemodules that complement the laboratory portion of the program. In addition, the authors plan tointroduce the program to other summer programs to assess its scalability and efficacy
help students understand the projectthey will work on over the summer and allow them to hit the ground running upon arrival to thehost labs. Examples of planned activities for this virtual training series are outlined in Table 1. Table 1: 10-week virtual training series – weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions Week Topic Homework 1 Welcome & Introduction to Sweden and Swedish culture (inside and outside of the lab) N/A 2 Genetics - DNA & RNA structure and function Reading 3 Genetics - Gene expression
composed of two parts: assessment of tangible engineering/electronics skills and disabilityawareness. We also plan to pilot a lab practicum that assesses the student’s ability to solder on a circuitboard and on a toy, diagnose and fix common issues with broken toys, develop “outside-the-box”solutions to fix toys with limited resources, explain the usage and theory behind a battery interrupter, andconfidence in their proficiency in the above categories to teach someone else the skills necessary to fix atoy. Additionally, the lab practicum will include a conversation with the students discussing theirincreased awareness of challenges faced by children with disabilities, confidence when faced with anunknown circuit and/or situation, confidence in
inability to demonstrate a significant change to the limited sample size of the cohort.Furthermore, the wide range of program participant backgrounds (nearly 50% of studentsindicated they had previous experience in early concept generation) contributes to the largerstandard deviation of these data, further obfuscating a significance in trend.Future Plans: We plan to make several modifications for the 2018 Clinical Immersion Program. First,considering the feedback regarding Monday working sessions, we plan to modify Mondayworkshops. We will scale didactic lectures and activities to three hours and dedicate theremainder of the workshop time to team collaboration. This time will be punctuated by facultymeeting with the teams to provide
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identified as essential were implemented in-person provided they obtained an approved safety plan. Students were not compelled to attendface-to-face courses and were given the option to pursue virtual alternatives. This combination offactors presented us with a unique opportunity to study the impact of face-to-face and virtualsynchronous instruction modes.A critical part of the biomedical engineering curriculum at [the institution], [this course] coverscore engineering analytical and computational techniques, with a laboratory portion consisting ofa sequence of MATLAB-based programming activities for undergraduates in biomedicalengineering [1]. Typically offered in a face-to-face (F2F) modality, the most recent Fall 2020 termpresented these
Bioinformatics course. The survey shown inAppendix A was submitted to the Endicott College Internal Review Board and was approved onFebruary 21, 2020. The voluntary survey was given to students in class on March 11, 2020 andwas completed by 18 of the 22 students. The survey results for all Likert scale questions areshown in Figure 1. Students differ in major, year, and prior experiences, but Figure 1 onlyconsiders if a student participated in a lab and a computational CURE or only the computationalCURE. The small sample size of 18 students makes analyzing the role of confounding factorschallenging. I plan to continue this study with future cohorts to look at these factors such asmajor.Figure 1. Box plot with individual survey results for students who
are chosen from each of the two areas: research design and methods, andregulatory science. Depending on the student’s plan of study, electives can be taken while theyare fulfilling their MS degree requirements or thereafter.Summer internship positions are secured by the Certificate Program Director, leveraging existingand new industry relationships formed through Northwestern University faculty, the Center forEntrepreneurship and Innovation, alumni and advisory board members of the BME Department.Geographically, all of the companies are located in the metropolitan CL area. Company sizesrange from startups to major corporations. Firms assign a designated mentor for the intern. Thementor’s responsibilities include conducting progress meetings
PopulationTo provide a better understanding of the size of the student population investigated, some categorical statisticsare presented. The total enrollment (Ne) of students across the six years of data within these four majors is Ne =9381 (BME = 1367, ChE = 3678, MSE = 791, ME = 3545). The total degrees granted (Nd) across these fourmajors is Nd = 3228 (BME = 418, ChE = 1113, MSE = 329, ME = 1368). The analyses and results in this paperare based on these populations.Career Outcomes and SalaryWithin the data set, students have the option to report four possible outcomes upon graduation. These include:career employment, further education, looking for job, and other plans. Career employment (Industry) includesstudents that have accepted a career offer
the project but found that [she] really enjoyed it and was surprisinglygood at it.”Strategic ThinkingOf the 854 quotes, 105 indicated strategic thinking. Student often discovered commontechniques of project management, teamwork and innovation on their own. They reportedthat “planning ahead is critical”, “things took longer than expected”. Students tried “notto dwell on wrong turns” and that found that “the quest for perfection can sometimes [be]the enemy of forward progress”. They found they could “g[e]t a lot done through manyshorter unstructured meetings than long formal meetings”. Several students commentedthat they found they could be “resourceful, even when [they] didn’t have manyresources”, and that they began to notice “how many
with each instructionalclass periods consisting of 45 minutes of one-sided discourse with the instructor teaching from aPowerPoint presentation, followed by up to 5 minutes of multiple choice iClicker questions onthe material just covered (as a note, instructional class periods are considered any class periodnot devoted to examinations or group presentations). The significant time, effort, and planning required to restructure an entire course fromtraditional lecture-based to “flipped” can be prohibitive (or at least discouraging) for someuniversity instructors who may already have a full workload [15], [18]–[21]. In a “flipped” or“inverted” class, instructional content is delivered to students out of class (typically throughvideo
sources: Institute endof quarter evaluations, a focus group conducted by Institutional Research, Planning, andAssessment, and informal plus/delta surveys. In plus/delta surveys, students are asked to listthings that they like about the class and things that they feel can be improved.Students were excited about the projects and the hands-on nature of the course. They expressedpride in the experiences that they had that were different from the upper level BE students;however, as they began to compare their experiences to the rest of the freshmen on campus, theyfelt that they were working too hard. The studios give students a lot of freedom in decidingwhen to complete which activities. This lack of structure caused some students to fall behindand to
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campus and planning to headout for a week break. Then, they were suddenly told to pack up and permanently leave campus,not to come back after break. Their studies would continue by distance learning.Faculty had similar instructions — immediately shut down your research and teaching labs, sendyour graduate students home (if possible), abandon the campus (as it was about to be completelylocked down), and prepare to teach remotely. For some, the latter requirement was thrust uponthem without adequate preparation so they had to muddle ahead. For others, their universitieshad previously introduced their faculty to distance learning didactic concepts as a matter ofcourse, so for those faculty the transition may have been a lot smoother. For some
demonstrate that overallknowledge is not diminished when peer instruction is the primary form of learning.IntroductionThe authors, along with many other engineering educators, have been strong proponents ofactive learning. Active, collaborative, cooperative, and problem‐based learning have beendemonstrated repeatedly to be more effective than lecture alone [2]. Students are 1.5 times lesslikely to fail in courses that use active learning [3]. When one of the authors was granted aFulbright Scholar Award to teach a biochemistry course in Uganda, the plan was to reproduceteaching methods used in the United States such as clicker questions, think-pair-share, and teamactivities which would be easy for the students to adopt [4]. However, within the first