Building a Functional Cardiograph Over Four Semesters, Part 3: Estimating Heart Rate and Respiration Rate in the Time and Frequency Domains Using MATLAB
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Virtual Conference
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July 26, 2021
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July 26, 2021
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July 19, 2022
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Design in Engineering Education
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12
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10.18260/1-2--36761
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https://peer.asee.org/36761
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357
Paper Authors
Gail Baura Loyola University Chicago
Dr. Gail Baura is a Professor and Director of Engineering at Loyola University Chicago. While creating the curriculum for this new program, she embedded multi-semester projects to increase student engagement and performance. Previously, she was a Professor of Medical Devices at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, which is one of the Claremont Colleges. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from Loyola Marymount University, her MS Electrical Engineering and MS Biomedical Engineering degrees from Drexel University, and her PhD Bioengineering degree from the University of Washington. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical device research and managing research and product development at several companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Francisca Fils-Aime Loyola University Chicago
Francisca Fils-Aime is currently a doctoral student at Loyola University Chicago in the Research Methodology program.
Vincent Chen Loyola University Chicago
Dr. Vincent Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering with expertise in neuromodulation and rehabilitation engineering. His current research focuses on quantifying the extent of neuroplasticity induced by the application of brain and peripheral nerve stimulation.
Leanne Kallemeyn Loyola University Chicago
Leanne Kallemeyn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Research Methodologies at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches graduate-level courses in program evaluation, qualitative research methods, and mixed methods. She has been the PI on seven major evaluation projects that ranged from one to five years in length. Her scholarship focuses on practitioners’ data use and evaluation capacity building within non-profits through coaching. She received a Bachelors in Psychology from Calvin College, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Abstract
At Loyola University Chicago (LUC), all engineering courses are taught using a mandatory minimal lecture style, where the majority of course meeting time is devoted to group activities. Each activity may take place during that course meeting only, over the entire semester, or over multiple semesters. Curricular contextual threads take place over multiple semesters. One such contextual thread is the cardiograph project, whereby students build a functional cardiograph that estimates heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR) over four semesters (first, third, fifth, and sixth semesters). In Part III, students acquire their own electrocardiogram (ECG) using a custom motherboard, with which they had programmed a Texas microcontroller to acquire and display an ECG in Part II of the project. They then estimate personal HR and RR from their ECGs in both the time and frequency domains using MATLAB.
In Part III of this study, we tested if student engagement in engineering design increased student proficiency with MATLAB. We assessed student engagement using the validated Student Response to Instructional Practices (StRIP) instrument. As these students completed the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) annual survey during their first, third, and fifth semesters, we also considered how across participation in the cardiograph project through consecutive years may be one curricular element that contributes to students’ persistence in engineering, development of engineering identity, and sense of belonging.
Baura, G., & Fils-Aime, F., & Chen, V., & Kallemeyn, L. (2021, July), Building a Functional Cardiograph Over Four Semesters, Part 3: Estimating Heart Rate and Respiration Rate in the Time and Frequency Domains Using MATLAB Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--36761
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