The VaNTH Bioengineering Curriculum Project

Author

Linsenmeier, Robert A. ; Harris, Thomas R. ; Olds, Suzanne A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

2644

Abstract

The NSF-sponsored VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies is developing a website, www.vanth.org/curriculum, to provide a forum for ideas about bioengineering curriculum. Two elements of that site are: 1) a listing of recommended core content, as opposed to core courses, for biomedical engineering undergraduate programs, and 2) recommendations for creation of curricula in terms of both content and pedagogy. This presentation addresses these two area. Our recommendations are intended to allow programs to meet a set of standard criteria that will allow industry, in particular, to understand what a biomedical engineer is, while allowing universities to meet local constraints and take advantage of their own strengths. Feedback from a broad cross-section of the bioengineering community is now needed to achieve agreement on core elements of a biomedical engineering curriculum.

Keywords

biomedical education; VaNTH bioengineering curriculum project; biomedical engineering curriculum; core elements; pedagogy; recommended core content; standard criteria; undergraduate education; universities; Biological materials; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical materials; Chemical analysis; Design engineering; Educational programs; Educational technology; Knowledge engineering; Physiology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053470

Filename

1053470