Archive from the Fall 2001 semester.
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The mission of the Biomedical Engineering Outreach program is to introduce students to Biomedical Engineering, help them to learn about the many applications of Biomedical Engineering, promote and encourage teamwork and trouble shooting to solve problems, and engage the students in interesting and thought provoking discussions and activities relating to Biomedical Engineering. The primary goal of this outreach is to leave the students with an enhanced and positive conception of mathematics, science and engineering. We want them to feel empowered and able to conquer the field of engineering and dispel all misconceptions they had about the field.
To develop an Outreach program that showcases technology and discusses educational and career opportunites in the vastly growing field of Biomedical Engineering.
To date our two chosen concept modules have been fully developed. A presenter's manual has been created and we are ready for a trial run. Unfortunately, this has been delayed due to unforeseen events earlier during the semester.
We are currently working on the development of a presenter's manual, which includes an outline of the entire Outreach presentation and specific instructions for the presenters. The manual provides a description of each step of the presentation and includes 2 concept modules focusing on ergonomics and radiology fundamentals. The manual has been reviewed by various faculty members and advisors and has been revised multiple times, but will not be in final form until April of 2002. A trial run will be performed to a 4th grade audience at a local Madison school on January 23rd, 2002. This trial run will serve many purposes, but will specifically help to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the BME Outreach kit. The kit will be further developed based on the success of the presentation and feedback from students and teachers. In March of 2002, other Biomedical engineering students will then go out to present the kit on their own with the revised manual. From the feedback from those groups, final revisions will be made leading to the completion of the manual in April of 2002.
The .vsd file used for our initial timeline was unable to be read by our viewers. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please notice that we have embedded this file into .ppt document for your viewing pleasure.
The trial run for our presentation is scheduled for the afternoon of January 23, 2002. Please reference the progress report archive for further details.
For a glance at our projected timeline for the spring semester 2002, please click here.
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Thanks for visiting! See you in January.
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