Biomedical Engineering Design

4 units

A design project experience to prepare students for engineering practice. Working individually or in small groups, students will undertake an original design or redesign of a component or system of biotechnological significance. The design experience will require application of knowledge and skills acquired in earlier classes and laboratory work; it will incorporate engineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic, environmental, ethical, manufacturability, sustainability, health and safety, social and political. Students will prepare written reports and present their designs orally to their classmates and panels of faculty members and industrial representatives. Prototype construction is not generally required but may be encouraged subject to available time, financial and material resources.