Development of a Webenhanced Senior Biomedical Engineering Design Course

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Development of a Web-enhanced Senior Biomedical
Engineering Design Course

• Paul H King
• Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Vanderbilt University

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Overview

• History
• Current Structure
• Process Evaluation - first term
• Process Evaluation - second term
• Output(s)
• Examples
• Conclusions

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History

• 1989 - Optional 3 credit senior year
  (lab/project) few
• 1990 - Optional 3 credit (lecture/project) 9
• 1991 - Required 3 credit 24?
• 1997/98 - Required 3-3 (lecture/project,
  project) 60

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Current Structure 1997-1998

• Students 60, about 1/3 BME/EE, 1-2 BME/ChE,
  seniors
• 3 Fall, 3 Spring
• Objective Learn Do Design
• Lectures, Reengineering project, Design Project
• Computer Lab, Design Lab, Sponsor
• Software (Office, VB,VC, FrontPage, Project)

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Process First Term

• Guests Projects, Careers, Info Gathering, QA/QI,
  Safety
• King Lectures design, brainstorming, forensics,
  patents, regulations, ...
• Reverse Engineering
• Lecture Summary, notes on web
• Exam over the above
• Select Project, write proposal, begin

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Evaluation Fall Term

• Class survey (1), CO2 homework(1)
• JellyBelly Plant tour/itemization (1)
• NSF assignments (3), Topic (1)
• Midterm (30), Reports (10)
• Database (10), Safety (3)
• Re-engineering Project (25)
• Formal Proposal (10), Web (5)
• VB extra credit assignment (5)

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Process Second Term

• Weekly Progress Reports unless oral
• Monthly Oral Reports
• Web updates
• Final Poster Session
• Final Written Report

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Evaluation Spring Term

• 10 Oral PowerPoint Presentations
• 10 Weekly reports the other weeks
• 10 Complete web presentation
• 10 Poster session judge 1
• 10 Poster session judge 2
• 30 Advisor grade
• 20 Instructor grade

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Projects (1998)

• Primarily Software - 11
• Primarily Hardware - 16
• Hardware/Software - 5
• Process - 2

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Example List

• Development of a software module for ECMO
  training
• Advisory Defibrillator Study
• Drug/Anesthetic interaction/warning system
• Harris-Hillman Special Education Projects
• Design of a scar-reducing bra
• Multifunctional Data Acquisition and Analysis
  Device

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Negative Comments

• want to see others projects
• want more FDA Patents
• personality conflict 5

• want improved expectations
• want more motivation
• want more structure 3
• want earlier 2

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Positive Comments

• individual attention 2
• e-mail quick efficient 2
• all info on the web 3
• real world 4
• web design

• no class 2
• inclusive3
• organized 2
• fair
• presentations

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Conclusions

• Web postings - appreciated
• Student web access - learned/useful
• E-mail - efficient
• Plan to continue/upgrade
• Industrial projects - more needed!
• Course via web? TBA

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Useful Links

• http//www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/King/oral_presentati
  on_schedule.htm
• http//www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/King/bme272.htm
• http//www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/King/bme273.htm
• http//www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/King/BME_design_link
  s.htm