Experiential learning in an undergraduate biomeasurement course: Embedded instrumentation

Biomedical engineering requires a broad base of engineering knowledge and skills, which may include electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Due to the variety of subject areas, it is often difficult to cover all desired materials within reasonable credit hours for an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. A course in biomeasurement has been developed to provide the students with electronic and programming skills for biomedical instrumentation in an efficient way. Through hands-on learning experiences on building an embedded measurement device, the course combines subject matters from the areas of circuits, microprocessors, programming, and basic signal processing.