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BIOEN 201, Winter 2010 |
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Syllabus and Home Page UW General Catalog Course Description: Introduction to Bioengineering; laboratory safety, acquisition and analysis, presentation tools for biomedical applications. Course Overview: Bioengineering Laboratory is a 2-credit course (1 hr lecture and 3 hr lab per week) introducing students to important engineering methods for data acquisition and analysis in bioengineering. This course will focus on two tools needed for the bioengineering core curriculum: mathematical programming (MATLAB) and electrical instrumentation (oscilloscopes, function generators, circuits). Students will be instructed in the fundamental principles of engineering measurements and analysis. They will learn how to acquire data, process and analyze data, and present their results. Topics include: sensors and actuators, circuits, data acquisition, sampling, data and error analysis, and ethics. Learning Objectives: To develop a “hands on” understanding of instrumentation and methods for data acquisition, processing and analysis used in Bioengineering. In particular, students will be expected to learn:
Class Structure and Organization
Class Meeting Times and Location: (Check Time Schedule for current information:) Laboratories: N133 (William H Foege Building) Each student attends one of the following sessions. (subject to change)
For a calendar of where to find TA's in labs and office hours each week, see the google calendar. Final Exam: Tuesday, March 16 2010,10:30-12:20, PAA A110 Textbook and Lab Manual: There are no specific textbooks or lab manuals. Materials or links to suggested reading materials will be posted on the course website. Viewing documents on this web site: Most of the lecture notes, readings, and assignments are not available to the general public and so will be password protected. You can access them by following instructions to log in with your UW net ID if you are enrolled in the class. If your UW net ID doesn't work, tell Wendy at wendyt@u.washington.edu by email from your UW net ID account and let her know if you enrolled in the class within the past few days. Also, most of the readings and assingments are in Adobe Acrobat for which you can get the Reader for free. Computer Access: There are three ways to access the Bioengineering Student Computers, which we use for this class - log on remotely using your UW net ID, get an access card to room N140, or go during office hours, which are held in the lab. For more more information, download: Detailed Computer Access Instructions. Email listserve announcements: Once you have signed up for the class, you will recieve email announcements about class assignments through a listserve that uses your UWnetID email account. You should recieve a welcome message to this listserve a week or two before class starts, or about a day after you signed up for the course, if you register late. If you don't, please contact Wendy. It is your responsibility to check your email account on a regular basis. Any changes to the course web site will be announced in class or by email. |
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Prerequisites and Recommended Background Prerequisite: MATH 126; PHYS 121; corequisite: CSE 142; PHYS 122. Recommended Background: in addition, some familiarity with Biology and Chemistry Numerical grades for this course will be based on student performance on the quizzes, ethics assignment, worksheets, and final exam. Below are the maximum points available for each of these items:
Course grade will be rescaled to [0 – 4] Grades will be entered, tracked and submitted using Catalyst GradeBook. you should also see a link in your catalyst tools. Worksheets: Experiments in the instrumentation lab will be done individually for the first 5 weeks of the course on mathematical programming and in groups of two (or three in a few cases) for the remaining weeks on instrumentation. Each lab has a Worksheet based on the laboratory experiments. The worksheet should be read ahead of time as there is often explanatory text and even a few questions which can addressed prior to the lab. Each Worksheet is due in paper format at the beginning of your next laboratory each week (except that the last week’s worksheet will be due by 8:00am the following Monday). Laboratory worksheets and handouts can be downloaded from the course website. Quizzes: Short quizzes on the lecture materials and laboratory work will be given during lecture some weeks. A short quiz on instrument operation will be given during one of the lab sessions. Due dates: All assignments must be handed in by the deadline, as the solutions are posted shortly after the deadline. No assignments will be accepted after the solutions are posted. All exams/quizzes must be completed on the specific date unless prior arrangements are made with the course instructor. No make-up exams/quizzes will be given (exceptional circumstances will be considered).
Cheating/Plagiarism is not tolerated. Directly copying published materials (including the web publications) is strongly discouraged; if absolutely necessary, you are required to quote the materials and cite the source. Make sure to acknowledge the source of materials that you use even you rewrite them in your own words. You can discuss with your fellow students about the prelab exercise and lab worksheet, but you cannot copy other’s work. Disability accommodations: To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, (206) 543-8924 (V/TTY). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services (DSS) documenting that you have a disability that requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to me so we can discuss the accommodations you might need for the class. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredits educational programs in Applied Science, Computing, Engineering and Technology Education. Through the quizzes, worksheets, and final exam, the following items will be assessed:
Relationship of Course to Departmental Objectives: This course serves to introduce sophomore level BioE students to the some of the important engineering tools that will be needed in their remaining BioE courses. By gaining an understanding of mathematical programming, data measurement and analysis, statistics and ethics in BioE 201, the students will be able to focus more on learning bioengineering concepts and principles in later courses. Thus, BioE 201 contributes to the following departmental objectives:
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