Biomedical
Engineering 402
Biomedical Engineering Design I
Winter 2003-2004
Instructor: Dr. Steven A. Jones
Email: sajones@coes.latech.edu
Phone: 257-2288
Office Hours: M-F 2-4, Bogard 239
Course Description:
BME
402 and BME 404 represent the culmination of your undergraduate education in
Biomedical Engineering. You will devise
and implement a design project that requires integration and synthesis of prior
engineering, life science, design and analytical skills. This will involve use of the engineering
design process and consideration of biomaterial, biomechanics, human factors,
ethical and legal concerns, and oral and written communication skills. Teams of classmates work together to
facilitate group processing skills and successful designs. As you begin this course you should consider
yourselves to be engineering professionals.
This means that you have obligations to your team members, to your
potential clients and to others who will be involved in the design process. It also means that you should be able to
expect the same courtesies from your fellow workers.
Your
first objective in BME 402 is to write a design proposal for a biomedical
device or for biomedical research. You wish to convince your potential sponsor
(in this case, your fellow students) that the plan you propose has a high
probability of success. This means that:
(1) There is a clear need for the product or research that you propose. (2) The
product or research has not yet been done by someone else. (3) The premises on
which you base your work are likely to be correct. (4) You personally have
enough expertise in the subject and access to the needed resources to
accomplish the proposed work. (5) The cost of the work is not prohibitive. Of particular importance to your design are
(1) the use of quantitative engineering principles in the design process and
(2) the testing of your device/experiment (including appropriate statistical
tests)t to ensure its viability. You
are required to specify in your proposal the specific theoretical analysis you
will use in the design process and the tests that you will perform. At the end of the Winter quarter, you will
turn in a preliminary design report.
Your
objective in BME 404 is to complete the design and prototype of your device or
experiment and to evaluate that device for feasibility as a product.
Textbooks: Mittendorf
and Engelmann, “Design of Devices and Systems,” third edition, Marcel Dekker,
Inc,
Dictionary
of Statistics
Supplemental Texts: Handout material and directed readings
Time: TR
Attendance:
Attendance
is mandatory and will be accounted for in your final grade. In-class exercises cannot
be made up without a physician’s note or prior approval for absence. See also Louisiana
Tech University Bulletin (catalog), page 21.
Grading: A=90-100, B=80-90, C=70-80,
D=60-70, F=0-60
Grading
will be based on your homework
assignments (25%), your final design
proposal (25%), the quality and completeness of your log book (5%), your preliminary
project report (25%), attendance
(10%), and a final examination
(10%). Note that 5% of your final design
proposal and final project report will be based on peer evaluations filled out
by the rest of your design team.
Quality of log book: There
should be at least four things in your log book. 1) A record of daily
activities on the project (both yours and your sophomore’s) 2) Summaries of
important information you have learned through the literature, contacts, or
other sources, 3) Your own ideas and thoughts, and 4) data that you have
collected in testing your product. Make
liberal log entries. You never know what
information you will need to look up at a later time. Use your log book as a tool. Log books that are merely diary entries are
not sufficient.
Sophomore Assistants: Students
may be assigned one or more sophomore assistants. Involve the sophomore as
much as possible. The student should
have, at minimum, scheduled weekly meetings with the sophomore to give
assignments and collect data. Other less
formal meetings are also expected. Use
your sophomore to look up literature, screen authorities for ideas, help with
engineering calculations, brainstorm, supply critiques of your writing, etc.
Research:
Library
research is necessary to a good design proposal and final report. Ask me to order important papers by
interlibrary loan.
Late Homework:
Homework
will not be accepted after the due date.
All homework is considered to be due at the end of class on its stated
due date. Any homework that is not
turned in at that time will receive a grade of ‘0.’
Homework Turned in by Email:
Any
homework turned in by email must have the following as a subject line:
Senior Design Assignment Due
<date>
For
example, “Senior Design Assignment Due
Any
attachments must be named as follows:
SD <your last name> Due
<date>
For
example “SD Johnson Due
These
rules are to help me keep track of your homework. I
cannot be responsible for any homework turned in that is not properly named.
Steven A.
Jones
Senior Design (BIEN 400, 402 and 404).