BioE 431 – Spring 2009

Bioinstrumentation and Measurement Laboratory

(Last updated 2/4/2009 4:17 PM)

 

Instructor:                           James Patton                           Office Hours:               By appointment

                                             pattonj@uic.edu           

                                             SEO 222, phone 413-7664

 

Teaching assistants:         Farnaz Abdollahi             fabdol2@uic.edu

Ajay Kurani                          kurani@uic.edu

Ki Hwan Nam                      knam2@uic.edu

Ashley Selner                       aselne1@uic.edu

 

Times:                                  ● 02:00 PM-04:50 PM      Tuesday                       Section #26854

 ● 09:00 AM-11:50 AM      Friday                           Section #26853

 ● 02:00 PM-04:50 PM      Friday                           Section #14163

 

Open lab for makeup and extra questions and problems (confirm with TA’s):  

     ● Tuesdays       10-12 (please try to confirm with TA Ki.Hwan)

     CHANGED (NO LONGER ON THURSDAYS):

     ● Mondays       2:30-4:30 (please try to confirm with TA Ajay K.)

Or by special arrangement with TA’s or instructor.

 

Location:                             4018  SEL west

 

Required Text:                         ·   Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design (Paperback) 3rd edition or 4th edition. by J. G. Webster (BioE 430 will require the 4th edition this term, however)

·   Lab Manual (available on blackboard, if you want a printed copy, please print before )

·   Additional labs texts to guide the final lab of your choice will be provided later in the term.

 

Catalog Description:   Practical experience in the use of biomedical instrumentation for physiological measurements. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in BIOE 430.

 

Prerequisites:              Credit or concurrent registration in BIOE 430. This means you need to have taken ECE 115, 210 (best choice), or 225. Restricted to Engineering, Graduate College, and External Education.

 

Format:           This course will provide the student with the fundamental and preliminary concepts of building circuitry and instrumentation that interfaces with biological systems. The student will perform 7 laboratories, each with a particular focus, and construct a lab report documenting their results, conveying the knowledge they gained, and exhibit their ability to effectively communicate a proper scientific report. Students work with assigned partners in the lab and then independently produce a report.

 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will learn to be critical of experimental design and data quality.
  • Students will gain practice and confidence in building circuitry.  
  • Students will gain considerable practice and confidence in problem solving and troubleshooting circuitry.  
  • Students will learn the common research practice of experimental design and methods.  
  • Students will gain practice in writing reports that effectively communicate using standard scientific writing structures (abstract, introduction, procedures, results and discussion).

 

Codes of Conduct:

  • Work with your assigned partner(s) and do not jump to other groups without permission.
  • Attendance is mandatory. If you have trouble attending, we expect makeup in open lab hours. You are not allowed to simply copy data from partners. Make sure you have the TA record your attendance at open lab.  You  will be grading fellow students
    • attendance will be noted so inform/ask your TA about any deviations
  • TA's are boss and will grade you on participation and conduct.
  • Be courteous and considerate to all people and to the lab.
  • Your lab group will have a locked drawer (keyed by the TA) to store your work from one week to the next.
  • Respect the lab; put things away and leave no mess. 
  • Read and print your lab ahead of time. Complete prelab and hand it in within the first 20 minutes of the lab. Prelabs will not be accepted after this.
  • The first week of school there IS class.
  • The Friday before spring break there IS class.
  • Open labs are the best time to catch up if you are behind. You can try to come during other lab times (Friday morning is the most empty), but check with the TA first.
  • Writeups:
    • Writeups are considered a critical part of the course and should be formalizes accordingly.
    • Writeups will be handed in electronically using blackboard.
    • Hand in your writeup as MS word, RTF, or PDF,
    • Format: 8.5 by 11 inch paper and 1 inch margins, 10 point font or larger, single spaced is ok.
    • Writeups will include: heading (title, author, partners, lab section, TA name), abstract, intro, procedures, results, and discussion (an example lab writeup will be posted).
    • The Abstract is an important part of the lab structure and should demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively. The abstract should be a brief description that might orient the reader to the content and results. Be quantitative wherever possible, and never let it be more than a page (it usually should be much shorter than a page). It should appear on the first page with the heading information, contain a purpose, specific aim of the lab, key results, and a brief mention of the importance. It should be written so that someday one might be able to understand the scope of key ideas behind the lab and what was learned.
    • Plagiarism is not allowed. Write your own lab with the data you have obtained.
    • Label plots (title, axes labels, units, and if necessary, a caption). You can place figures in the body of your results section, not at the end of the writeup.
    • Writeups are due the following week before midnight.

 

 

Performance Criteria:  Students are evaluated on each of 7 laboratories using a detailed scoring rubric of their individual reports, giving weight to each component: prelab 10%, abstract 10%, intro 10%, procedures 15%, results 20%, discussion 20%, there are no exams. 

 

Grading:                                   85% graded write-ups

15% participation (students will be asked to give evaluations of each other)

LATE LABS are 5% off each day for the first 10 days (50%). After this, you can still hand in your lab late with only the maximum deduction of 50% taken off.

 

Course Topics:           

Lab 1. Introduction to Electronic Equipment        

Lab 2. Digital Data Acquisition     

Lab 3. Signal Processing Using the 741 Op Amp And Digital Filters

Lab 4. Temperature Measurement Using Thermistors       

Lab 5. Biopotential Amplifiers and the Electrocardiogram

Lab 6. Photoplethysmographer

Lab 7. Blood Pressure

  Each Lab Will Be Typically 2 Weeks Long      

 

This is a select Required Engineering Course in the BioE curriculum, and subject to Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) rules.

 

Relationship to ABET Criterion 5:  This course represents 2 credit hours of engineering topics, as specified under Criterion 5 (b).

 

Relationship of Course to ABET Program Outcomes:            Used to assess performance in Program

Outcomes G, K, M, N