51:085 / 51:178 Biomedical Engineering Senior Design 
Tentative Course Syllabus



 

Class

Date

Topic

Assignments

Speaker

2

25-Aug

Project ideas


Assouline

3

27-Aug

Introduction, organization, grading, etc.


MAM

4

30-Aug

What makes a good project?


MAM

5

1-Sep

WORK ON ASSIGNMENT #1


NO CLASS

6

3-Sep

Project ideas

Sample Project Idea Due

Lim,,Abdel-Malek


6-Sep

Labor Day

Holiday

NO CLASS

7

8-Sep

Project ideas



8

10-Sep

Project ideas


Salem

9

13-Sep

Project ideas


Ladouceur

10

15-Sep

Project ideas



11

17-Sep

Project ideas



12

20-Sep

Project ideas


Khera

13

22-Sep

Project ideas


Reinhardt

14

24-Sep

Project ideas



15

27-Sep

Project ideas


Brown, Ryken

16

29-Sep

Project ideas



17

1-Oct

Defining the problem-


MAM

18

4-Oct

TBD



19

6-Oct

Tuskegee experiment, ethics

Preliminary Project proposal due

DGW

20

8-Oct

Making an Effective Presentation: rescheduled

NO CLASS - work on your status reports!


21

11-Oct

TBD



22

13-Oct

TBD

Status report #1 due


23

15-Oct

TBD



24

18-Oct

TBD

NIH ethics deadline postposed to 10/22


25

20-Oct

TBD



26

22-Oct

Writing an Effective Proposal

rescheduled: NIH ethics certificate due

MAM

27

25-Oct

Midterm Presentations


MAM

28

27-Oct

Midterm Presentations

Status report #2 due

MAM

29

29-Oct

Midterm Presentations

Project Proposal due

MAM

30

1-Nov

Midterm Presentations


MAM

31

3-Nov

Making an Effective Presentation


MAM

32

5-Nov

Individual Group Meetings


MAM

33

8-Nov

Individual Group Meetings

Status report #3 due

MAM

34

10-Nov

Individual Group Meetings


MAM

35

12-Nov

Individual Group Meetings


MAM

36

15-Nov

Individual Group Meetings


MAM

37

17-Nov

Administration


MAM

39

19-Nov

Administration

Status report #4 due

MAM


22-Nov

THANKSGIVING


NO CLASS


24-Nov

THANKSGIVING


NO CLASS


26-Nov

THANKSGIVING


NO CLASS

40

29-Nov

No class today.  Work on reports.


NO CLASS

41

1-Dec

Lecture: Phase I Project Report



42

3-Dec

Final Presentations



43

6-Dec

Final Presentations

Phase I Project Report due to mentor


44

8-Dec

Final Presentations



45

10-Dec

Final Presentations

Phase I Project Report due to Mackey





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