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BME 390-1-20: Biomedical Engineering Design

Prerequisites

BMD_ENG 207-0, BMD_ENG 220-0, BMD_ENG 270-0, BMD_ENG 308-0, BMD_ENG 309-0, COMP_SCI 150 and two of the following: BMD_ENG 250-0, BMD_ENG 271-0, MAT_SCI 201-0

Description

Open-ended team-designed projects in the medical devices arena. Systems approach requiring design strategy and concepts, including reliability, safety, ethics, economic analysis, marketing, FDA regulations, and patents. Written and oral reports.

Who Takes It?

Required core course for seniors BME. Juniors may enroll, but are encouraged to consult with an instructor before doing so.

What It's About

Projects are selected and developed through interviews with professionals in biomedical engineering and/or clinical practice and/or industry. Students will be guided to generating a problem definition, understanding user needs, developing an understanding of the technologies needed to solve the problem and will be required to show that the solution presented is feasible and optimal. In this course, students will work in teams to apply their knowledge of engineering and biological sciences to design. The deliverables includes a prototype or other proof-of-concept to demonstrate feasibility of the solution.

The course also satisfies the McCormick communications requirement.

Mini-Syllabus

Communications
Quantitative Methods and Modelling
Requirements Definition and System StructuralDecomposition
Device Development Process, Project Lifecycle, Needs Elicitation
Feasibility Analysis, Prioritization
Verification and Validation, Regulatory/FDA, Documentation
Biomedical Engineering in a Global Context
Reliability
Ethics
Intellectual Property and Patents

Textbook

No textbook. Students will be expected to use multiple primary sources of information (journal papers, patents, textbooks, standards, databases etc.) to develop a comprehensive background in the both engineering and the use environment related to their project