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Kyle, Aaron M.; Jangraw, David C.; Bouchard, Matthew B.; Downs, Matthew E. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
This paper presents the development, implementation, and assessment of a project-based Bioinstrumentation course. All course lectures and hands-on laboratory activities are related to a central project theme: a cardiac pacemaker. The students create a benchtop cardiac pacemaker by applying instrumentation knowledge acquired in the course to each…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education, Biotechnology
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Bondos, Sarah E.; Phillips, Dereth – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2008
Rice University has created a team-taught interactive biology course for nonmajors with a focus on cutting edge biology in the news--advances in biotechnology, medicine, and science policy, along with the biological principles and methodology upon which these advances are based. The challenges inherent to teaching current topics were minimized by…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Graduate Students, Class Activities, Current Events
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Montgomery, Beronda L. – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2004
A 2-credit service-learning biotechnology course designed as a general education elective for students of all majors and at all levels was offered as an 8-week, half-semester course. The course met for a total of 3 hours of lecture/discussion and 2 hours of service-learning workshop weekly, during which students participated in discussions about…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Experiential Learning, Lecture Method