BME 4090, Design Project Organization

Summer A, 2005

Instructor:

Ofer Amit

Office: EC 2677

Phone: 305.348.6717

Email: Ofer.Amit@fiu.edu

Office Hours: open door and by appointment

Introduction:

This is a one credit-hour design course intended for seniors in the Bachelor of Science program in biomedical engineering. It is the first of two sequential applied learning design courses (the other is Senior Design Project) that are offered as one continuum over two consecutive semesters. These classes are at the pinnacle of the undergraduate biomedical engineering program; they are designed to serve as a venue where the Senior will utilize the knowledge he/she has accumulated throughout his/her academic career toward the design, building and testing of a capstone project.

In this class, Design Project Organization, students work in teams. Projects are selected within four routes (corporate, entrepreneurship, research, and clinical) that represent the main career paths available to biomedical engineers. The project aims, among others, at providing students with an early hands-on experience and with tools for success in a team-oriented and goal-driven engineering/business environment in a career option of their choice.

Throughout the senior design sequence - Design Project Organization and Senior Design Project – students are expected to display the full array of knowledge and skills, tools and techniques and biomedical engineering know-how that they acquired during their stay at the BSBME program and utilize them toward the successful completion of their projects.

Evaluation Tools:

1. Project Workload Distribution Form

2. Project Proposal Evaluation Form

3. Self and Peer Evaluation Form

Assignment Submission:

1. Electronic copies via email.

2. Late submissions may not be accepted (make sure the instructor received the assignment on or before the deadline.

Grading:

1. Class participation*: 10%

2. Homework assignments**: 10%

3. Self and Peer Evaluation: 10%

4. Project Review I***: 30%

5. Final Project Proposal Presentation***: 40%

* - Note: value-added, attendance, punctuality

** - Note: quality, promptness

*** - Note: Project Workload Distribution Statement

Check breakdown on Project Proposal Evaluation Form

Project Type Options (for reference only):

1. The Corporate Option: the team is mentored by a South Florida biomedical company. At the end of an interview process the team is assigned a project that responds to specific needs of the company. The project is performed at FIU under the auspice of the Senior Design Project class. At the end of this course the team is to present, defend, and obtain company’s approval for its project plan.

2. The Entrepreneurship Option: the team identifies a novel biomedical/bioscience technology, connects with a technology entrepreneurship mentor, and crafts a commercialization plan. After approval of the technology selected, the team engages in preliminary technology and business assessment. At the end of the course, the team will plan for a prototype, present a market feasibility study, and obtain approval to develop a complete business plan. The complete business plan will be written and the prototype built under the auspice of the Senior Design Project class.

3. The Research Option: individuals or teams that plan to pursue a graduate biomedical engineering degree identify a faculty mentor and craft a project that may serve the research goals of the faculty’s. At the end of the course, student/team will present a project proposal. The project will be conducted under the auspice of the Senior Design Project class.

4. The Clinical Option: individuals or teams that plan to attend medical school identify a clinician as a mentor and craft a project that may serve the research and/or clinical goals of the clinician’s. At the end of the course, student/team will present a project proposal. The project will be conducted under the auspice of the Senior Design Project class.