125:402 - BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (BME) SENIOR DESIGN II PRELIMINARY SYLLABUS REGISTRATION INDEX 67373, SPRING SEMESTER 2008 http://coewww.rutgers.edu/classes/bme/bme402/ (NOTE: This syllabus is very similar to that for Senior Design I, since this is a two-semester course sequence) COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Professor Thomas Papathomas Psychology Building Room A127; Office Hours: Fridays 12:00 - 1:30 pm and by appointment. Telephone: 732-445-6533; e-mail: papathom@rci.rutgers.edu TEACHING ASSISTANT: Anshul Jain Psychology Building Room A116; Office Hours: Fridays 1:00 – 3:00 pm and by appointment. Telephone: 732-445-6155; e-mail: anshuljjain@gmail.com COURSE DESCRIPTION The course has two components: I. A two-semester mentored senior design project; II. A series of lectures and assignments for developing communications skills, attending to professional growth and consulting on career development. I. Design Project. The design project is the main component of the course. Seniors are expected to meet with their mentor once a week, and are required to spend at least 15 hours per week in their mentor’s facilities, working on their projects, as they did in the previous semester. Students are required to record their activities, experiments, results, ideas, and related material in a bound laboratory notebook; notebook entries must be dated and recorded in pen. Spring Semester: Students are expected to submit an updated Project Deliverables Form in the beginning of the spring semester. This form must be signed by themselves and their mentor. Requiring the Project Deliverables Form ensures that they will meet with their mentor, set priorities, and go over the goals of the design project. Students are required to submit a detailed Final Report that summarizes the progress they made in the design project throughout the year. The Final Reports are graded independently by the instructor of the course, by the Teaching Assistant, and by the students’ mentor. The culmination of the course occurs near the end of the spring semester, when seniors give a brief oral presentation on their project in an all-day Biomedical Engineering Department Conference, which is centered around the Senior Design presentations. This is an annual event, designed to celebrate the achievements of our Department's students. The Conference is composed of three parts: 1) Oral presentations by the graduating seniors. 2) A poster session covering two types of research contributions: by our program's graduate students and by the undergraduate students in our Honors Academy; and 3) An informal job fair, now in its third year, where representatives from the industry will be able to talk to the students during the breaks, lunch, and at the reception following the conference. This is a major event, to which we invite • the Deans of both the School of Engineering (SoE) at Rutgers and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ), as well as all the • students, • alumni/ae, and • members of faculty, • mentors, • seniors’ families, • members of the BME Department Industrial Advisory Board, and • guest lecturers who gave Senior Design talks throughout the year. Each year, we publish approximately 250 copies of the Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Department Conference for all participants. II. Lectures - Assignments. This is the second component of the course. We recognize the opportunity that the course offers to have regular contact with the BME Department’s seniors, and we take advantage of it to cover topics that are useful for their professional growth and career development. Lectures are offered every other week, on average, by experts from within the BME Department, or from appropriate units in the University. Occasionally, we invite speakers from the industry. This semester, after the first week’s introductory lecture by the instructor, the first lecture offers a tutorial on how to prepare and deliver effective oral presentations. Another lecture by the instructor gives the students an overview of experimental design, statistics, and hypothesis testing. Mr. A. Chiappetta, Assistant Director of Rutgers’s Career Services, will instruct students on how to prepare for a job interview, as well as what is involved in starting your own business. Two members of the BME faculty, who were both recruited from Corporate Research Laboratories (Prof. Chabal, from Agere Research Laboratories, and Prof. Androulakis, from Exxon Corporate Research Science Laboratories), will tell the seniors what to expect in the workplace, while Prof. Nackman, M.D., of UMDNJ will try to give them a flavor of biomedical engineering research at a medical school such as UMDNJ. Finally, Prof. Leibowitz, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ, will cover issues of biomedical ethics. COURSE OBJECTIVES The main purpose of this course is to give senior BME students experience in the area of designing biomedical devices and systems, under the guidance of a mentor in the university or in the industry. This course will be an integration of the engineering and life sciences backgrounds that will culminate in the application of design principles for biomedical devices and systems. The secondary objective is to provide students information on professional growth and career development. During the course of the fall semester, students were exposed to current practices in biomedical product design, prototyping, modeling, testing, evaluating, and protecting intellectual property; they were also instructed on professional growth and career development. During the spring semester students will attend similar lectures, complete their design projects, and deliver final oral and written presentations. To assess the course effectiveness, students fill the same questionnaire at the beginning of the fall semester (“Entry” Questionnaire), and again at the end of the spring semester (“Exit” Questionnaire). A comparison of their responses provides us with a measure of improvement. COURSE PREREQUISITES The course is open only to BME Seniors. Prerequisite courses are: 14:125:303 – Biomedical Transfer Phenomena 14:125:305 – Numerical Modeling In Biomedical Systems 14:125:306 – Biomedical Kinetics & Thermodynamics 14:125:308 – Introduction to Biomechanics 14:125:315 – BME Measurement/Analytical Lab 14:125:401 – BME Senior Design I TEXTBOOK There is no textbook for the course. Material and announcements for the course are in the course web site: http://coewww.rutgers.edu/classes/bme/bme401/. Special announcements are broadcasted to all students by e-mail. ATTENDANCE All students are required to attend classes on time. Attendance counts for 10% of the class grade. A late penalty will be assessed for any student who misses class or comes to class late. Any expected absences, religious or otherwise, must be brought to the attention of the course instructor and TA at least 3 days in advance. If the student must leave class early, he or she is expected to inform the instructor or TA before class. HOMEWORK AND PROJECTS Homework in Senior Design will be assigned in the form of various documents that must be completed according to the instructions provided. These forms include • the Project Deliverables Form, • an outline of the term report, • a personal resume and • an executive summary of the project (both to be included in the Conference Proceedings). Major projects for this semester the Oral Presentation and the Final Report. Assignments are to be turned in at the beginning of class on the day they are due. All students are expected to adhere to the University’s Academic Integrity policies with regards to their work. GRADING - Attendance 10% - Advisor Evaluation of Lab Performance 10% - Outline of Final Report 5% - Resume and Deliverables Form 5% - Lab Notebook - Final Project Report - Executive Summary 10% 50% 10% ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Students are supposed to turn in homework assignments that are their own ideas, thoughts, experiments, data, and analysis. If they use someone else’s material, they are expected to give credit to the source by proper references and citations. Students are expected to abide by the Policy on Academic Integrity, which is described in the Undergraduate Catalogue. Students are reminded to review this policy. A specific lecture on Ethics is offered in the spring semester. PROFESSIONALISM Seniors are asked to come to class, as well as to their appointments with their mentors, on time. Students are expected to be attentive during class and have a professional attitude. This includes, but is not limited to, refraining from disruptive conversation, not eating or drinking, and turning cell phones off during class. They are encouraged to ask relevant questions and engage in constructive dialogue with the lecturers. CONTRIBUTION OF COURSE TO MEETING THE PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT OF ABET Senior Design is a required BME course. The ABET content is Engineering Science 0% 0 hours Engineering Design 100% 3 hours This course contributes to the ABET criteria in the following ways: ABET Criterion: Student will be able to A. Apply math, science, engineering B. Design, conduct experiments, analyze, interpret data C. Design system component, process to meet desired needs D. Function on multidisciplinary teams E. Identify, formulate and solve engineering problems F. Understand professional and ethical problems G. Communicate effectively H. Understand the impact of engineering on society and the world I. Recognize need for and engage in life-long learning J. Know contemporary issues K. Use modern techniques, skills, and tools for engineering practice 125:401: Students will Devise solutions to design issues using techniques and procedures in math, science, and engineering that they learned over the course of their undergraduate education Develop logical experiments to ensure that their design performs according to specifications, and analyze test data scientifically to determine the strength of their design Evaluate an engineering problem and design a device, process, and/or program that meets the design requirements and specifications Work with mentors and student/teammates to solve their design problem; we provide a wide variety of design projects and we encourage multidisciplinary approaches Search literature to find current engineering problems and work with groups and advisors to address the issue Be exposed to professional and ethical problems through a series of lectures from professors and industrial representatives Submit written progress reports, final project reports, as well as give oral presentations on their design issue. We lecture them on how to communicate effectively both in writing and orally. Be exposed to real-world engineering problems through the series of lectures. We ask lecturers to emphasize issues of impact, especially the lecture on ethics. Instructor emphasizes this need in his lectures. Additionally, the lectures on graduate education and the one on the workplace are designed to point to the need for life-long learning We take advantage of the lecture series that offers the opportunity to expose students with contemporary issues Use modern techniques, skills and tools that are relevant to their design project in their mentor’s facilities RELATIONSHIP OF COURSE TO PROGRAM OBJECTIVES The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University will produce Bachelor of Science graduates who: Are able to apply the fundamental principles of mathematics and the sciences to solve biomedical engineering problems Have the background in engineering design and product The course 125:402 provides the experience to: Use the basic engineering sciences and biomedical engineering background to design a device or system. Design a device or system as part of a group as well as realization to meet the needs of government and industry as well as the breadth to make transitions into other professional areas such as medicine, law or biomedical engineering management. Consider the broad social, ethical, economic and environmental consequences of their work Have an understanding of the importance of life-long learning and professional development, and a background that allows and encourages those who are qualified to pursue advanced degrees. Are effective working individually and in teams and can communicate effectively. attend required lectures on engineering design. We encourage mentors to offer design projects that involve interdisciplinary approaches. The lectures on graduate education and the workplace emphasize the importance of life-long learning, and encourage students to pursue advanced degrees. Work in a team on project of system design and development. Students are also required to keep a complete laboratory notebook as well as make an oral presentation of their design proposal. STUDENT INPUT AND INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE TO TEACHING EXCELLENCE SURVEYS (TEC) IN THE PRIOR YEAR – (All comments listed were taken from the recent TEC surveys) • Comment: Offer projects at the end of the junior year to allow for more time to start working on them. Response: This was an excellent suggestion, and the instructor had been working on this idea, anyway. This year (2005-2006) is the very first time that projects were distributed for selection to rising seniors in May of 2005 (in previous years projects were offered for selection in September). This allowed some students to start working on their projects over the summer. We plan to follow this schedule in the future. • Comment: Have a “practice round” for speaking to an audience. Response: We followed this suggestion and now offer a special session for students who would like to have a rehearsal of their talk. The instructor and T.A. are both present in this session and offer feedback to the speakers on how to improve the talk. • Comment: More details for assignments should be given. Response: We responded by revising the specifications for all assignments and posting downloadable versions on the course web site. • Comment: Make only a few lectures mandatory, otherwise it’s a waste for those not interested. Response: There is a good reason not to honor this request by students: We selected the lecture topics and speakers so as to benefit the overwhelming majority of the graduating seniors. Thus, we strongly feel that all students will benefit form all the lectures. For example, some students may not be interested in graduate studies presently, and they may wish not to attend the corresponding lecture; however, the speaker talks about many topics that all seniors must be aware of (the value of continuing education and life-long learning, alternative career plans, selecting employers that encourage, even pay for, graduate education, etc.) • Comment (related to above comment): Make the course meet every 3 weeks (it now meets every 2 weeks). Response: We feel that all the lectures serve a good purpose, and we did not honor this suggestion (just like the previous comment). In addition to the value of each lecture, meeting every 2 weeks gives us the opportunity to meet the seniors face to face more often, thus enabling us to address concerns, to make special announcements, to monitor their progress, etc. COURSE SCHEDULE All lectures are in BME Auditorium during 2nd period (10:20-11:40 a.m.) on the following Fridays. However, please note that some events are on different days and/or locations. Date Title Speaker 1/25/08 Introduction to 125:402; Course overview - Oral presentations and final report guidelines Dr. Papathomas 2/08/08 Preparing for a Job Interview 2/22/08 What to expect in the workplace Mr. Scott, RU Career Services Dr. Androulakis, Assignments Due* Deliverables Form due (TEAM) Resume due (IND.) 3/7/08 Experimental Design, Statistics & Hypothesis Testing 3/14/08 Biomedical Ethics Dr. Leibowitz 3/15-22 3/28/08 SPRING RECESS How to give an oral presentation Dr. Papathomas Final Report Outline (IND.) 4/11/08 Biomedical Engineering Research at UMDNJ Oral Presentation Rehearsal (optional) FIRM DEADLINE 4:00 PM (see 5/7 below) Dr. Gary Nackman Executive Summary (TEAM) Students Power Point Slides (TEAM) Students Exit questionnaire 4/18/08 5/02/08 SENIOR DESIGN CONFERENCE 8 AM – 6 PM, BME Building FIRM DEADLINE 4:00 PM If report is handed in anytime from 4:01 PM 5/7/08 to 5/07/08 4:00 PM on 5/8/08, it is late by ONE DAY, and so on. * IND.: Individual assignments; TEAM: Team assignments Dr. Papathomas Final Reports Due (IND.) Notice this is a WEDNESDAY. GUEST SPEAKERS • Mr. Joe Scott is Associate Director of Career Services at Rutgers University. • Prof. Y. J. Chabal is a member of the BME faculty at Rutgers; he was formerly at Agere Research Laboratories. • Prof. Y. Androulakis is a member of the BME faculty at Rutgers; he was formerly at Exxon Corporate Research Science Laboratories. • Prof. G. Nackman, M.D., is a member of the Surgery faculty at UMDNJ. • Prof. M. Leibowitz is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ.