. The video hosting site also auto generated captions.Figure 2. Example of drawing from assignment. Students replicated the model and instructor gave VF on the submitted model.Data Collection and MetricsThis is a retrospective study, using data from four semesters taught by the same instructor (theUniversity of Miami IRB has determined that this study is exempt from review.) The traditionalcohort (Fall 2019 n=9 students) was taught using written feedback, while the VF cohort consistsof three classes (Fall 2021/Spring 2022/ Fall 2022/ n=4/11/20 = 35 total). Two sets of data werecollected from each cohort: analysis of student final projects and video file data.The final project in each class was similar, asking the students to create a model or
implementations through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His re- search and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informat- ics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and Restoreskills.Dr. George D. Ricco, University
to increase students’ technical skills as related to the design process, it also aims to buildconfidence and develop students’ abilities to work not only with their peers but also withinstructors and local clinicians. During the students’ senior years, they are required to take SeniorDesign 1 during the fall semester and Senior Design 2 during the spring semester. As aprerequisite to Senior Design, the Clinical Observations and Needs Finding course is intended tointroduce students to the design process. Projects that are initially developed in ClinicalObservations are intended to be carried to Senior Design, where prototype creation occurs. Thiscourse fits logically into the undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum, but the
].According to Minerick [24], advanced research skills include "Safety, Research and thelaboratory, How to maintain a lab notebook; Literature searches and article applicability to yourresearch; Dissection of a research article; Effective scientific presentations; Preparing an abstractof your research project, and Preparing a scientific poster" (p. 6). The National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funds Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs), which are programsdedicated to increasing the number of STEM students who pursue advanced degrees, focused onrecruiting traditionally underrepresented students in the field [24], [32]. Students who are offereda position in an REU program at a university are provided with housing, meals, and a stipend for,commonly
University of Virginia Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB,protocol number 3236.This study was conducted in concert with a second-year course in design for biomedicalengineering students. The course itself was focused on the development of software, hardware,and fabrication skills of particular use to biomedical engineers [3]. These included CAD,microcontrollers, basic circuits, 3D printing, subtractive approaches to prototyping (dependingon semester), and digital image analysis. The course culminated in a closed-ended team-baseddesign project with a physical prototype due at the end.Students would have taken 0 to 3 courses prior to the design course in question. This is becausestudents at our institution enter their major after their first year, and
todescribe the job titles and roles for biomedical engineers working to develop a new medical device.The average number of codes, each representing a unique job title or role in industry, generallyincreased from cohorts 1 to 4, where students in cohorts 1, 2, 3, and 4 named on average 0.28 ±0.18, 0.43 ± 0.15, 0.69 ± 0.14, and 0.91 ± 0.02 codes, respectively (Figure 1B). Research anddesign engineer was the most named job title/role by students across cohorts; however,project/program manager, manufacturing engineer, design quality engineer, and clinical fieldspecialist were also named, albeit at a lower frequency (Appendix D, Table 7). Importantly, manystudents in cohort 1 (82%) and cohort 2 (83%) specifically reported in their survey responses they
Paper ID #39265Measuring Biomedical Engineers’ Self-Efficacy in Generating and SolvingProvocative Questions about SurgeryMr. Nathan Zhang, Vanderbilt University Nathan Zhang is a undergraduate studying biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University working on biomedical engineering education in conjunction with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineer- ing.Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Dr. Stacy Klein-Gardner serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity. She is the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (e4usa) project. She is
Paper ID #42620A introductory-level, student-taught biomedical neuroengineering course for1st year undeclared engineering undergraduate studentsNyota Prakash Patel, University of VirginiaDeepika Sahoo, University of VirginiaDr. Shannon Barker, University of Virginia Dr. Shannon Barker is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UVA BME ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Background and MotivationEngineers are required to conceive, design, and maintain products, processes, and systems acrossmany sectors to meet societal needs [1]. Projects often require training in fundamentals andacross
didn't think there'd be as much focus on the regulatory pathways as it was.”This quote exemplifies students’ misconceptions that design entails only CAD and prototyping.Our course, and the exposure students receive to different medical device industry roles, attemptsto ameliorate this limited belief, broadening students’ future career path options.Students felt the three selected medical device units (surgical staplers, breast pumps, and stents)allowed them to achieve the course goals. For example: “Overall, the projects definitely did a good job at accomplishing the course goals because they were so inclusive of everything we’d been working on and learning. I did appreciate that all the devices were very unique from each other. You
the engineering profession, cultivating an innovative spirit from an early age can be aformidable task. Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a program dedicated to transformative STEMteaching for K-12 students, focuses on skills relevant to innovation and entrepreneurship such asproblem-solving and critical thinking. The PLTW program, however, has a limited focus on thehumanities which is presumed to turn women and minoritized populations away from STEM [2].In university-level engineering programs, with the heavy technical curricular demands, inclusionof coursework dedicated to innovation and creativity may not always be perceived as logisticallypossible. Allocating valuable course time that help engineers recognize opportunities and createvalue
Paper ID #43848Board 19: Work in Progress: Towards Self-reported Student Usage of AI toDirect Curriculum in Technical Communication CoursesKavon Karrobi, Boston University Kavon Karrobi is a Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as well as the Manager of the Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC) at Boston University. As a Lecturer in BME, Kavon teaches and mentors students in courses on biomedical measurements, analysis, and instrumentation. As Manager of BTEC, Kavon provides guidance, training, and mentorship of student projects that use BTEC ranging from student-initiated
-in-progress paper presents our PBL redesign of the lecture portion of the coreundergraduate bioinstrumentation courses at WSU and UC Davis, and some preliminary resultson students’ performance and satisfaction.MethodsOur learning objectives for both sites are the same before and after PBL, which is to teachstudents about electronics measurement systems so that they could be better prepared forinstrumentation-related design projects (next semester for WSU; concurrent quarter for UCD).The current version of the lecture used in UCD is a slight rearrangement (due to lab equipment)and addition (due to allocation of academic units) of the version currently used in WSU.Our themed PBL redesign of the bioinstrumentation lectures focuses on general
implementations through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His re- search and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informat- ics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and Restoreskills.Dr. George D. Ricco, University
Appendix Table 4). The number of students participatingin each specific category varied with each semester (Appendix Figure 1A). In summer of 2022,the overwhelming majority of students participated in a career enrichment experience andnoticeable low participation in industry and research experiences. It remains unknown if this wasan artifact of a summer semester or a COVID-related lag. Anecdotally, it is known that manycompanies and research labs did not recruit in 2021 for 2022 summer positions due to COVID-related budget constraints.Four of the 13 curriculum outcomes were well reflected (>80%) in the high-impact experienceassignments – “attitudes,” “communication,” “teamwork,” and “project management” (AppendixFigure 2). These professional
developing engineering skills in biotechnology students through laboratory-focusedactivities that enabled students to engage with engineering calculations and practice drawingconclusions from experimental results [2]. Figueiriedo et al. implemented experiential learningactivities where students worked on industry-based projects; they found that students perceivedthat their teamwork and collaboration skills were the most improved [3]. Several studies havealso focused on the development of engineering professional skills including Alkan et al. whoexplored using experiential learning to improve scientific process skills in a chemistry class [4],and Wallen et al. who focused on improving research skills through a project-based tissue-engineering modules
Concept MapsAbstractThis paper describes a work-in-progress study investigating the use of concept mapping forassessing students’ conceptual knowledge over a semester in a biomedical engineering modelingcourse. The concept maps are used to evaluate the evolution of students’ skills in developingmathematical models that describing biological systems and students’ specific contentknowledge as they complete problem-based learning projects. As students gain experiencedeveloping mathematical models to answer open-ended problem-based learning questions, wehypothesize that their conceptual understanding of mathematical modeling and of the biologicalsystems studied will increase. This improved conceptual understanding is reflected by conceptmaps with
Professor and Assistant Chair, having previously spent a year in the School of Nursing. From 2008-2013, Colin was the Direc- tor of the Coulter-Case Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Colin’s research interests are on educational pedagogy, the practical application of sim- ulation and healthcare information technology to support clinical decision-making, including advances in understanding wearable analytics for human performance assessment. Current projects involve clin- ical studies to obtain primary data-based for human performance modeling and simulation studies, and projects involving the use of conversational agent technology to improve the activities of daily
through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His research and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informatics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and Restoreskills.Dr. George D. Ricco, Miami University
Board and was approved as a Quality Improvement project (IRB#232075).The survey responses to the multiple-choice questions from each class were recorded in aspreadsheet with response identifiers, course information, and answers. The Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) method was used to compare the proportion of correct answers from each BME class(2900W, 3900W, 4901W) to the objective questions in these tests. The Tukey Honest SignificantDifference (TukeyHSD) test was performed to make pairwise comparisons between individualvariables. These were computed using the stats package in R-4.3.1.Preliminary Results: Table 1 reports results from student performance on nine objectivequestions. Q3-Q7 asked students to identify sources of information to consult
Education Research Conference, Minneapolis MN, 2014. 7. Matz RL, Fata-Hartley CL, Posey LA, Laverty JT, Underwood SM, Carmel JH, Herrington DG, Stowe RL, Caballero MD, Cooper MM. “evaluating the extent of a large- scale transformation in gateway science courses.” Science Advances 4(10), 2018. 8. DiPietro C, Dyjur P, Fitzpatrick K, Grant K, Hoessler C, Kalu F, Richards J, Skene A, Wolf P. “Educational Development Guide Series: No. 4. A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Higher Education Curriculum Development, Review & Renewal Projects, P Dyjur & A Skene, Eds., Educational Developers Caucus, 2022. 9. Florez GAC, Huerfano MJC. Curriculum Design Process for a Systems Engineering Program. In: 2019
flipping portions of the course to increase time forPSS and other active learning opportunities (current semester, data collection incomplete). Thissolution is more accessible to instructors given the time investment required to completely flip acourse.Our overall project goal is to determine effects of our instructional design changes on what andhow students learn in the course. This Work in Progress paper addresses two initial researchquestions: RQ1. Does student learning increase over the semester, regardless of class type? RQ2.Does the class type (PSS or no PSS) affect concept inventory scores in this course?MethodsDescription of the courseContent in the course is typical of similar introductory engineering cell and molecularphysiology courses
challenges are uniquely unpredictable and impressively varied. Biomedical engineerswill encounter machine learning models contaminated with significant bias [15], to new drugswith limited effectiveness, to implantable or wearable technologies that impact human health.Our students need to be ready for the complexities we can only imagine.The progression starts in freshmen year where students pursue a design project for a real clientthat encourages students to embrace failure through learning, fostering humility and encouragingstudents to discover the complexity of the world they live in. In year two the progressioncontinues by encouraging students to develop their curiosity, uncovering how materials aresourced for biomedical devices and implants and
system and novel meaningful use implementations through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His research and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informatics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and
healthcaredisparities; projects developed by students are intended to ultimately aid local clinician partners.This course fits logically into the undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum, but thespecific effects of the course and its specific implementation have yet to be quantified.Methods:To quantify differences in IP creation, the office of Technology Ventures provided data on thenumber of invention disclosures, patent applications, and patents awarded. Long term, IPgeneration can be better quantified via actual awarded patents and this will be tracked in futurework. We ran a query against all the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students from 2013to 2022 to obtain these numbers. The perceptions and opinions of students were measuredthrough a
research projects have varied from sperm cryopreservation to synchrotron and laser-based x-ray imaging in various contexts, including pro- tein crystallography, thin-film surface diffraction, and phase-contrast imaging of airplane turbine blades. He currently teach at least mechanics, programming, statistics, materials science, and biomaterials, along with whatever other classes someone doesn’t want to teach that semester, at both UNC and NC State. He is particularly interested in sophomore-level labs to make them approachable and accessible while still introducing advanced BME concepts.Dr. Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Lianne Cartee is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Joint
collaborative research projects and team teaching, specifically theideas of a shared theoretical framework and agreement on author roles. Each faculty participantwas then prompted to identify their own core values regarding teaching and course goals, beforejoining their team to collaborate on a shared set of values and goals. Participants were alsoprompted to explicitly identify the role and responsibilities of each member of their teachingteam. The shared values and course goals were further codified into a document with the goal oforienting a new team member (Appendix A). The group was also challenged to develop a surveyfor evaluation of their team dynamics and achievement of their course goals, and to use it as atool for self-reflection on the team
Project (2018). 5. Cheryan, S., Master, A. & Meltzoff, A. N. Cultural stereotypes as gatekeepers: increasing girls’ interest in computer science and engineering by diversifying stereotypes. Front. Psychol. 6, (2015). 6. Boucher, K. L. & Murphy, M. C. Why so few? The role of social identity and situational cues in understanding the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. in Self and social identity in educational contexts 93–111 7. Malone, K. R. & Barabino, G. Narrations of race in STEM research settings: Identity formation and its discontents. Sci. Educ. 93, 485–510 (2009). 8. Sparks, D. M. Navigating STEM-worlds: Applying a lens of intersectionality to the career identity
contrast, in-person interventions prioritize face-to-facecommunication, traditional lectures with facilitated group discussions, and hands-on activitiessuch as case studies or projects. Both approaches, typically independently studied for theirunique strengths and limitations, will be jointly implemented into an undergraduate biomedicalengineering tissue mechanics course in this research to promote critical reflexivity through theadded socialization. To determine the effectiveness of the applied interventions, assessments willinclude observations made of discussions on the virtual collaborative learning platform Perusall,in-person case studies, and student artifacts (surveys). Moreover, we anticipate that in-personand digital pedagogical
supporting STEM faculty on STEM education research projects.Dr. Sharon Miller, Purdue University Sharon Miller, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She received a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University and MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her educational efforts focus on biomedical engineering discipline-based educational research, including design self-efficacy, project-based learning, critical reflection in ethics, and high-impact practices. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work in Progress: A Multi-level Undergraduate Curricular
lecture on best practices for protocol writing then leveraged our longitudinaldesign project to assign a group homework to assess student capacity for protocol writing withthe additional opportunity to complete said protocol (Blooms Taxonomy level: application).Module 3: The revision of consensus standards. Modeled after industry panels to reviseconsensus standards, we have piloted an in-class activity for different stakeholders to collectivelypropose and write standard revisions. In BME 410, we provided students with ISO 15971 Invitro diagnostic test systems: Requirements for blood-glucose monitoring systems for self-testingin managing diabetes mellitus for review. Students were then placed into five teams representingdifferent relevant