Paper ID #40057Benefits of a Low-Stakes Show and Tell Session in Biomedical EngineeringDesignRebecca Alcock Rebecca is a PhD student in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Prior to her PhD, she received her BS and MS degrees in Biomedical Engineering. Her work focuses on global health applications of engineering.Dr. John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Puccinelli is the Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He began here as student near the start of the UW-BME program and earned his BS, MS, and PhD in BME. He is interested in hands-on instruction
] M. Andersson and M. Weurlander, “Peer review of laboratory reports for engineering students,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 417–428, May 2019, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2018.1538322.[26] A. Saterbak and T. Volz, “ Implementing Calibrated Peer Review To Enhance Technical Critiquing Skills In A Bioengineering Laboratory,” in American Society of Engineering Education, Philadelphia, 2008.[27] Canvas LMS, “How do I use peer review assignments in a course?” Accessed: Mar. 31, 2024. [Online]. Available: How do I use peer review assignments in a course?[28] A. Nichols, “Using Calibrated Peer Review As A Teaching Tool For Structural Technology In Architecture,” in American
reinforced teamwork and technical course content.In general, simulated industry experiences were perceived by students to strengthen 2-3 skillseach while the hands-on laboratory experiments were able to build all 5 skills. Students in theoffering with the SIEs only (Fall 2022) and the offering with the SIEs and hands-on laboratoryexperiences (Spring 2023) both showed significant gains over the semester in confidence in theR&D skills and their self-rated preparedness to complete hands-on laboratory research and workin the industry as a process development engineer. Although the average gains in the semesterwith the hands-on laboratory activities were higher, this difference was not statisticallysignificant. Overall, students perceived the SIEs
educational disparities or geographical boundaries, and supporting lifelonglearning are all environmental stressors that push for more access to virtual education [2]. Inaddition to providing more virtual educational experiences for students, there is a growingemphasis on ensuring that higher education also equips all students, whether in person or online,with skills that align with the needs of the industry [3]. One way education tries to equip studentswith skills the industry needs more effectively is by implementing innovation-based learning(IBL) [4,5]. IBL is a teaching paradigm where courses require both undergraduate (UG) and graduatestudents to learn fundamental engineering concepts during class sessions. Then, these studentsengage in
Paper ID #36693Story-Driven Learning in Biomedical Engineering: Quantifying Empathy inthe Context of Prompts and PerceptionsDr. Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University Stephanie Lunn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and En- gineering Education (SUCCEED) and the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International Uni- versity (FIU). She also has a secondary appointment in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS). Previously, Dr. Lunn served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at
. May is a Professor at the University of Wuppertal. He researches online and intercultural engineering education. His primary research focuses on the development, introduction, practical use, and educational value of online laboratories (remote, virtual, and cross-reality) and online experimentation in engineering and technical education. In his work, he focuses on developing broader educational strategies for de- signing and using online engineering equipment, putting these into practice, and providing the evidence base for further development efforts. Moreover, Dr. May is developing instructional concepts to bring students into international study contexts to experience intercultural collaboration and develop
academic misconduct in higher education?” Higher Education, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-00996-z[3] B. Jeffries, T. Baldwin, & M. Zalk. “Online examinations in a large Australian CS1 course,” ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 20–26, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3511861.3511864[4] L. Elsalem, N. Al-Azzam, A. A. Jum’ah, & N. Obeidat. “Remote E-exams during Covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study of students’ preferences and academic dishonesty in faculties of medical sciences,” Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 62, 326–333, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.054[5] F. Noorbehbahani, Aj. Mohammadi, & M. Aminazadeh. “A
, educators from both research- andteaching- focused roles were equally committed to sharing their knowledge with the community.Among the presenters, the majority of engagement was at the assistant professor level, whichcould also be due to the required professional development needed for career advancement andpromotion. Furthermore, we observed that approximately 30% of the presenters held a leadershipposition at their institution (Figure 3b). Figure 3. a) Presenter ranks and b) position types (N = 12). We examined the number of times BEEC members engaged with the Share and Learn content on the website [22]. The event slides as well as a brief summary of each session were posted after a Share and Learn event was held on the BEEC
engineering students feel underprepared when going into the workforce, due to a lack ofreal-world application of the college curriculum and the lack of necessary skills to confidentlymake engineering and business decisions [1-3]. Consequently, the transition between college andone’s first job can be difficult for many graduates [4]. This causes many to seek jobs outside ofthe engineering profession altogether; according to one study, only one-third of engineeringgraduates seek jobs in an engineering field [5]. Furthermore, a study by the Carnegie Foundationfound that engineering schools primarily focus on the acquisition of technical knowledge, leavinglittle attention to real-world application or preparing for employment [6].To combat this issue, the
tobe made using a laser cutter with the pieces designed exclusively in Google Sketch. Theengineering design process is a series of steps that engineers use to come up with a solution to aproblem. You will be given an engineer's notebook which includes instructions to guide you inthe engineering design process. The notebook is specially designed for engineers to recordthoughts and report technical information while solving a design problem. You will test thefeasibility of your design using LEGO® pieces before machining and testing the new design andoptimize your prototype. Figure A1 The schematic of the existing tendon stretch device with dimensions.Appendix 2. Engineering Design Rubric:Appendix 3. Student Engineering Notebook
Engineering along with both undergraduate programs in BME. She served as associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering for 7 years. In addition, Michele has served an ABET Evaluator since 2008, was a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission from 2015-2020, and currently serves on the ABET Board of Delegates. In 2019, the Biomedical Engineering Division of ASEE recognized Michele with the Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award. Michele earned her BS in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from The Johns Hopkins University and her MS and PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Roza Vaez Ghaemi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Rosa and her
BrainStimulation (DBS): This group initially proposed 3 requirements, but after reading the papers andreceiving feedback, they divided all requirements, resulting in 9 requirements in the end. In thefinal design, they developed an electrode using new materials and coatings. They provided adetailed description of the manufacturing process of this technology and its use for the analyzeddisease.Group 5. Bioresorbable Peripheral Nerve Stimulator with Closed-Loop Control: This group wasthe only one composed of two undergraduate students. Although the search for scientific literaturewas not extensive, which was reflected in a solution with less detail than the other groups, thegroup had the technical challenge from the beginning not only to propose a design for
approach may leave students unsure about potential careers [3], since itoften does not include integrating innovation, ideation, and developing new products, which arecrucial areas within the cutting-edge BME field [1], [4].One way to improve BME students’ confidence in their career preparation has been to introducethem to undergraduate research in BME-specific areas, such as research experience forundergraduates (REU) programs [5], [6], [7], as a way to encourage them to pursue graduate-level research and apply their curricular knowledge to practice [2], [8]. Generally, REUprograms have encouraged development of communication skills through both oral presentationand writing technical research, laboratory and computer skills, and collaboration
surveyshows 28.6% (Figure 3). It is important to note that McGinn’s study is not broken down byengineering discipline, and this may speak to other elements of a BME’s professional formationwith other ethics courses beyond the BME curriculum.The following responses were given for Question 23. There responses are further broken downbased on school year and reported as an average response score. Q23: "In the course of your biomedical engineering education at Duke, to what degree have you gotten the message to the effect that there is more to being a good engineering professional in today’s society than being a state-of-the- art technical expert?"Figure 4: Student responses to what extend they believe they are Year in School
follows:Course Objectives; At the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Engage in the development of biomedical products and processes from ideation to production; 2. Understand the ethical and regulatory requirements for the development and marketing of such products; 3. Understand the creation, protection, and commercialization of intellectual property; 4. Communicate ideas, proposed solutions, project status, and product development issues to others including those who are not technically trained; 5. Understand the lessons of prior occurrences of failures of biomedical devices due to failures in design and how to apply those lessons to the product development process; 6. Work
presence ofnear-peer undergraduate mentors, and the openness of the faculty mentors in creating intellectualand emotionally-supported space for the interns to experiment and troubleshoot with their ownmaterials. These elements were intentionally designed by the two hosting faculty mentors.Faculty Mentor 2 mapped out experiments weeks in advance and provided calendars for thestudents each week (Figure 3). Additionally, both faculty met with each student one-on-oneevery week for discussions focused on social-emotional well-being and building the mentoringrelationship. Research shows that predictable routines and the opportunity to build meaningfulrelationships with mentors can promote deeper learning in students of all backgrounds, andespecially
positively correlated with academic success [1-3]. A previousstudy by Mamaril (2016) found significant positive correlations between general engineeringself-efficacy and academic success [4]. With an often-cited need for biomedical engineers toengage more closely with the medical field, this study seeks to create an instrument to determinehow self-efficacy in biomedical engineering is related to a subject’s abilities to identify and solveprovocative questions relevant in a clinical environment and ability to write grant proposalsrelated to those questions.To create the instrument, 35 broad survey questions related to self-efficacy were generated,separated into 4 broad categories: General Self-Efficacy (GEN) a unidimensional scale takenfrom Mamaril’s
engineering frequently suffer from a crippling form of technical-social dualism,separating the technical knowledge that engineers possess from the social implications that theirknowledge engages [3]. This dualism is readily apparent in the traditional engineering curriculumwith its heavy emphasis on math, science, and the engineering sciences, portraying engineering asa series of solely technical problems that need to be solved [4]. As engineers enter the workforce,this false technical-social dualism creates inner conflicts for practicing engineers as they end upspending most of their jobs solving problems in isolation from the context [5]. Meaning-rich,context-driven curriculum supports deeper forms of learning and the subsequent ability to
, what many regard as the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM), is often perceived to be an all-or-nothing tradeoff [3]–[6]. Some faculty may view courses dedicated to creativity and innovationas diluting the otherwise necessary technically-heavy engineering degree [7].Despite these challenges, countries such as South Korea have implemented the STEAM-basedapproach with the STEAM education initiative in K-12 observing benefits in cognitive andaffective student learning [8]. Improvement in divergent and metacognitive thinking have alsobeen reported as a consequence of STEAM-based learning in the Australian system, according toMcAuliffe [9]. These benefits suggest an inclusion of STEAM-based learning approaches in theAmerican engineering education system
Researching Professional Learning and Development: Challenges, Applications and Empirical Illustrations, M. Goller, E. Kyndt, S. Paloniemi, and C. Damşa, Eds., in Professional and Practice-based Learning. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 19–41. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08518-5_2.[14] A. L. Miller, “Investigating Social Desirability Bias in Student Self-Report Surveys,” Association for Institutional Research, 2011. Accessed: Feb. 28, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED531729[15] B. Gawronski, “Six Lessons for a Cogent Science of Implicit Bias and Its Criticism,” Perspect. Psychol. Sci. J. Assoc. Psychol. Sci., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 574–595, Jul. 2019, doi: 10.1177/1745691619826015.[16] B. Gawronski
summer research internship open to students over the ageof 16 attending eligible high schools in Massachusetts and is located at a large state university campus.Eligibility is determined by the Massachusetts Life Science Center, the funding entity, and incudes Chapter 74Vocational Technical High Schools, high schools located in “Gateway Cities,” and high schools in cities with apopulation of at least 25% classified as low income [1]. High school students participate in projects sponsoredby Principal Investigators with daily mentorship provided by graduate students and post-doctoral candidates inthese labs.The internal program goal is to provide as many of the research internship spots to potential first-generationcollege students and
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engineering, drug delivery, and cancer treatment. With numerous exter- nal and internal funding sources, he is actively engaged in research involving undergraduate students in various areas, including engineered red blood cells for oxygen therapeutics development. Dr. Zhang has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored the book Nanotechnology for Bioengi- neers, and holds multiple patents. When it comes to engineering and chemical sciences education, he is especially interested in integrating the entrepreneurial mindset into a wide range of courses. Dr. Zhang has been recognized by the ASEE’s Prism magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educa- tors under 40 (2018), the Milwaukee Business
, and 3- designing a product to addressunique customer needs) and integrated technical knowledge that students were learning. While“Circuits, Signals, and Measurements” focused on building the biopotential amplifier from acircuit’s perspective, the PCB project in aimed at connecting students’ learning experience byasking them to manufacture a stand-alone biopotential amplifier device that would meet certainengineering requirements and customer needs (Appendix A).This work-in-progress briefly presents the project requirements, assessment, and organization,highlights some preliminary survey results, and summarizes some important “lessons learned”.The PCB project is not an improvement over prior methods.Project Requirements & AssessmentProject
legal issues related to the safety concepts andare connected to standards and regulations compliance [1]. Hess & Fore [2] found that manyengineering programs have adopted a variety of modalities to teach the engineering aspect ofstandards and regulations compliance and that the business and legal aspects are less common inengineering education.Herkert [3] argued that the concept of product liability represents an excellent way to the variedaspects of safety issues to the forefront of the engineering profession as it includes the legalresponsibility as well as the technical concepts related to developing safe products. One exampleof the connection between standards and product liability law is the real-life case study byForbes &
intervention implemented in the course is a case study based on athoughtful 2009 article by Jerome Gropman, entitled Robots that Care [3]. In this activity, allstudents read and discuss not only the technical challenges involved in creating assistive robots,but also explore and reflect on how to implement and regulate the temperament of the robots.From discussion in class, the topic of temperament seemed to engage students, and that is whatprompted this investigation.The activity was delivered in two parts. In the first part, the entire cohort of nineteen studentsenrolled in the Summer of 2023 semester read and reflected on the article. In the second part, thestudents responded to a questionnaire posted on the learning management system. Many of
Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and serves as the Associate Director for Undergraduate Education. He is researching the role of ethics-guided design frameworks in the classroom for emergent biotechnologies, including gene and cell-based therapies. His education development in molecular engineering and biotechnology results from 10 years in developing protein and RNA-based control systems for mammalian synthetic biology applications. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Duke International Genetically Engineered Machine undergraduate research group. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-Progress: Integrating ethics education across thebiomedical engineering
balance. Themost comprehensive error necessitated the redesign of the last unit of process to dilute the finalproduct. All errors and proposed altered solutions required complete justification targeting theircritical response and communication skills.BEN 401: Dynamic Biomedical Systems Problem Statement:Twenty-eight students in BEN 401 were tasked with developing a 3-compartment model of thediffusion process of antibiotics to treat a common ear infection. The problem statement is foundin Appendix C. Students were given 24 hours to solve the problem and upload their solutions andjustification to a learning management software. The students were individually scheduled for10-minute technical meetings with the instructor simulating a progress update
benefit including the ability to retain technical progress andpursue further development that would not otherwise be possible by one capstone experiencealone (e.g., publication, execution of limited studies, filing of intellectual property). Together,the pipeline enables the longitudinal development of projects across disciplines and aims toenhance BME student training in a comprehensive user-centered design process.Methods:These aims will be executed through the development of 1) a new physical prototyping course,2) a revised CIP, 3) an advanced BME SD course sequence, and 4) a longitudinal developmentprocess with IMED students. Appendix Table 1 compares current and proposed curricula.New Prototyping Course: Despite teaching and practicing
and RNA-based control systems for mammalian synthetic biology applications. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Duke International Genetically Engineered Machine undergraduate research group.Charles WallaceMargaret Wacera Gatongi ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-Progress: Transforming the Molecular and Cellular Engineering Educational Experience in Biomedical Engineering AbstractIn recent decades, biomedical engineers have capitalized upon the “molecularrevolution” that fundamentally changed the study of biology through discovery,design, and commercial production of molecular and cell-based therapeutics thatform the foundation and