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Vanderbilt UniversityBiomedical Engineering

BME 272-273 Senior Design

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Description

This course integrates the engineering and life science backgrounds of senior biomedical engineering students through the presentation of design principles for medical devices and systems.

Prerequisite: BME 271, 251, 252 Credit Hours: 3 credit hours per semester

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In the beginning…

The course begins with classroom lectures on basic design principals and techniques. These lectures are supported by a continuously updated web page and written materials.

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Picking a project

First, project ideas are solicited from people in the university and people in industry.

Students may choose to pursue one of the suggested projects or find someone to advise them on a topic of their own choosing.

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Project Groups

Because of the complexity of some of the projects, students are given the option of working in groups of two or three.

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And they are off…

Near the end of the first semester all of the students have been matched with a project and an adviser.

The lecture portion of the course ends, and students begin to focus their attention on their senior design project outside of class.

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Support

The students may get workspace and supplies from their advisor or they may choose to use the facilities that are provided by the BME department.

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Workshop

Drill press, router and router guide, table saw and other miscellaneous hand tools

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Cellular Lab

Incubators and culture supplies Cell monitoring equipment

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Electronics lab

Bread boards and components Oscilloscopes

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Computer Lab

Software includes:Visual Basic®, Visual C++® Professional, Visual InterDev™, Visual J++™ Professional Edition, Office Developer Edition, Windows NT® Workstation; by Microsoft ®Designsafe, by Design Safety Engineering, Inc.

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Monitoring progress

Students present a number of oral presentations describing their project and its progression. These presentations are done using computer presentation software and are also posted to each projects web site.

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The big event…

The final result of two semesters of work is presented near the end of the spring semester.

Each group puts together a poster on their project and presents their work to the faculty in the department.

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Some of this years projects

Fetal Stabilizer Design

System to determine calories in food

Development of a blood glucose sensor

Patient Flow Analysis of the Women's Cancer Center.

Parallel Bars Platform

Interfacing & analysis of ECG & mSNA

Tele-schooling at VUMC Children's Hospital