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Work in Progress: Vertical Integration of Engineering Design in an Undergraduate BME Curriculum

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Conference

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Tampa, Florida

Publication Date

June 15, 2019

Start Date

June 15, 2019

End Date

June 19, 2019

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Postcard Session

Tagged Division

Biomedical Engineering

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--33663

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https://peer.asee.org/33663

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315

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Steven Higbee Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-043X

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Steve is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University (Houston, TX) in 2013, after earning his BS and MS degrees from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN). His current position focuses on teaching, advising, and promotion of undergraduate research.

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Sharon Miller Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Dr. Miller is the Undergraduate Program Director and Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). After earning her BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University (West Lafayette), she earned her MS and PhD degrees at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Her current roles include teaching, assisting in program assessment, student advising, and helping oversee undergraduate curriculum development and enhancement.

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Abstract

Relevant and robust biomedical engineering programs integrate challenging, hands-on engineering design projects that require student teams to develop and deliver functional prototypes in response to biomedical design problems. The inclusion of such projects throughout Biomedical Engineering (BME) curricula not only brings active learning to the classroom but helps students improve as team members, decision makers, and problem solvers. This work highlights how sophomore and junior level engineering design projects can increase students’ fundamental engineering design knowledge and self-reported confidence in approaching design projects. By steadily increasing the complexity of engineering design experiences throughout the BME undergraduate curriculum, our continued work studies whether intentional, vertical alignment of engineering experiences ultimately better prepares BME undergraduates for their senior design capstone projects and their professional pursuits.

Higbee, S., & Miller, S. (2019, June), Work in Progress: Vertical Integration of Engineering Design in an Undergraduate BME Curriculum Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33663

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