Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nur Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Biomedical

projects. The data consisted of twice weekly reflections of the activities that studentteams engaged in during their design process, as well as open-ended comments about theirdesign progression. This data was then collapsed into Dym’s model from which empiricalassociations were made between the various stages. Coupled with the teams’ open-ended weeklyreflections, we were able to identify educational patterns that potentially lead to higher or lowerquality designs. Based on their final artifact, teams were judged to be innovative or non-innovative. We found that differences exist between those teams innovative non-innovativeteams. This paper reports these findings.IntroductionInnovation is highly important as competition between companies and

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randolph, Randy Hutchison, Randy Hutchison, Clemson University; John DesJardins, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Biomedical

” in the group tomake since of the data collected andobservations with the variousmeasurement devices. Throughdiscussion, report writing andpresentations, the students revise theirmental models to reflect their Page 15.1309.4understanding of the related concepts. Figure 1: Students became “experts” with particular technology to share with future groups.Activity DesignStudents were first divided into groups to become “experts” with a particular measurementdevice or technology (Figure 1). Each group did an activity which allowed them to explore thefunctionality

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Vargis, Vanderbilt University; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt University

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Biomedical

reflectance Figure 1. Flow chart describing relationships between optical properties and therapeutic, diagnostic, and sensing applications.1spectroscopy and diagnosis have not been covered in enough detail. Many of theseundergraduate students have either already been exposed in general to such applications or havethe greatest interest in them. Due to time-constraints usually caused by spending time on othertopics in the class, spectroscopy and diagnosis are usually not covered in as much detail as boththe instructors and the students would like. A clear didactic problem was thus identified: Whilestudents may no longer be struggling with the fundamental concepts of light and light transport,there are several

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Wabler, Clemson University; Estefania Alvarez, Clemson University; John DesJardins, Clemson University

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Biomedical

encourages student success, monitors the CreativeInquiry undergraduate teams. This interactive environment engages students, faculty, andcommunity in discovery, enriching the lives of each constituency, and provoking higher-orderthinking, reflection on learning, and connection experiences to traditional engineeringcoursework as well as the successful publication of abstracts, posters, and papers based onCreative Inquiry research2-6. Page 15.561.2The Clemson University Retrieval of Explants Program in Orthopaedics (CU-REPO) is one suchCreative Inquiry group that was developed by Dr. John D. DesJardins in the Department ofBioengineering. Now entering

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Taylor, University of Virginia; Katelyn Mason, University of Virginia; A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Fletcher School; Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

encompass a variety of benefits a senior undergraduatestudent can receive as a result of their Capstone design experience. Besides benefiting thestudent in terms of advancing their careers, building their resumes, and preparing them for post-undergraduate endeavors such as graduate school, the success metrics examined in this study (i.e.grant applications and publications) also benefit the advisors, department, company, etc. Perhapsan outcome more immediately relevant to undergraduate students would be the end-of-yearevaluation score of their design project, which is reflected by their spring semester grade. Thus,we examined the end-of-year grades to determine whether any trends in advisor demographics orteam formulation were discernable.The

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

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Biomedical

we need to have, as the information needs to be the correctlevel as to not intimidate the participants. This item will be an important point for feedback andre-evaluation as the program progresses. Finally, feedback after the BMES conference waslargely positive, further emphasizing the broad range of careers that can be pursued with agraduate degree in engineering.Recent feedback (December 2009) was requested from the participants and we have received 6/8responses. The questions were directed more at a reflection on the program and included scaledresponses. Of the responses, 3/6 strongly agreed that the program gave them a positiveimpression of bioengineering research, with 3/6 being neutral. Four respondents strongly agreedor agreed that

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego; Melissa Micou, University of California, San Diego

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Biomedical

activities that were not a required component of theircourse grade. This result supports an earlier study showing that students in an introductorycomputer science course answered many more questions than they were required to andvoluntarily used the system to prepare for exams 9. Additional qualitative data is needed to fullycharacterize student attitudes about PeerWise and to determine if HA students devoted more totaltime to studying for the final than MA students.The data for this study was collected from all students enrolled in the course and there weremany uncontrolled variables, as is reflected in the high standard deviation of the data. As such,the experimental samples represented the diversity of a typical student population

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Koehler, Northwestern University; Wendy Murray, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

analysis tutorial, which reflect baselinecompetency prior to review. Students demonstrated low-level performance in vector projectionskills, shown in blue. a) W09 Post-Test Improvement b) W10 Post-Test Improvement 60 60Percent Improvement in Post-Test Results Percent Improvement in Post-Test Results

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Kennedy, Bucknell University; Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

a chance to inspect thecube and observe any particular manufacturing errors or basic differences between differentmaterials. Each group or team is asked to explain any challenges they faced in manufacturingtheir side of the Cube and discuss the source of any flaws in the final produced piece or the fitwithin the assembly. The discussion about the evolution of the project from concept to prototypeto manufactured assembly also gives the students a sense of accomplishment and serves as anopportunity to reflect on what it took to bring this admittedly simple part to fruition.9. Research and Write Material MemoThe final written portion of the project serves to disseminate information learned by each teamregarding their particular assigned