Capstone design courses producing industry-ready biomedical engineers /
The biomedical engineering senior capstone design course is probably the most important course taken by undergraduate biomedical engineering students. It provides them with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in previous years; develop their communication (written, oral, and graphical),...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2007.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering,
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to resource |
Table of Contents:
- Purpose, goals, and benefits
- Why our students need a senior capstone design course
- Desired learning outcomes
- Changing student attitudes, perceptions, and awareness
- Senior capstone design courses and accreditation board for engineering and technology outcomes
- Designing a course to meet student needs
- Course management and required deliverables
- Duration of capstone course
- Structure and sequence of capstone course
- Faculty involvement
- Grading
- Required course deliverables
- Extracurricular activities
- Projects and project teams
- Lecture topics
- Intellectual property and confidentiality issues in design projects
- Enhancing the capstone design experience
- Industry involvement in capstone design courses
- Developing business and entrepreneurial literacy
- Providing students with a clinical perspective
- Service learning opportunities
- Collaboration with industrial design students
- National student design competitions
- Biomedical engineering innovation, design, and entrepreneurship award
- Rehabilitation engineering research center on accessible medical instrumentation national student design competition
- Engineering in medicine and biology society
- Undergraduate student design competition
- The collegiate inventors competition
- National scholar award for workplace innovation and design
- Organizational support for senior capstone design courses
- Meeting the changing needs of future engineers
- Capstone design courses and the engineer of 2020
- Conclusion.