SYSC 4201
Ethics, Research Methods and Standards for Biomedical Engineering
Ethical theories, ethical decision-making, biomedical research ethics: informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, research ethics boards; research methods: hypothesis formulation, data collection, sampling bias, experimental design, statistical literacy; regulations for design, manufacture, certification of medical devices; impact of technology and research (social, political, financial).
2020
Topics
- Ethical theories
- Common versus particular moralities
- Ethical decision making
- Moral status
- History of research ethics
- Research involving humans
- Confidentiality and privacy
- Research ethics
- Research methods
- Proposal feedback sessions
- Plagiarism
- Graphs
- Bivariate data
- Probability
- Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
- Research Design
- Normal Distribution
- Sampling Distributions
- Estimation
- Hypothesis testing
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): ECOR 2050 and third year standing in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering or Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one and a half hours per week.