Paper Info
Title
The role of a creative “joint assignment” project in biomedical engineering bachelor degree education
Abstract
Biomedical Engineering (BME) bachelor education aims to train qualified engineers who devote themselves to addressing biological and medical problems by integrating the technological, medical and biological knowledge. Design thinking and teamwork with other disciplines are necessary for biomedical engineers. In the current biomedical engineering education system of Shanghai University (SHU), however, such design thinking and teamwork through a practical project is lacking. This paper describes a creative “joint assignment” project in Shanghai University, China, which has provided BME bachelor students a two-year practical experience to work with students from multidisciplinary departments including sociology, mechanics, computer sciences, business and art, etc. To test the feasibility of this project, a twenty-month pilot project has been carried out from May 2015 to December 2016. The results showed that this pilot project obviously enhanced competitive power of BME students in Shanghai University, both in the capabilities of design thinking and teamwork.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036756
2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biomedical Engineering,China,Curriculum,Pilot Projects,Universities
Biomedical engineering,Teamwork,Multidisciplinary approach,Design thinking,Engineering management,Bachelor,Engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2017
1557-170X
978-1-5090-2810-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiehui Jiang110.96
Yuting Zhang2307.13
Mi Zhou394.87
Xiaosong Zheng492.78
Zhuang-zhi Yan5148.28