BioEngineering
595: SEMINAR
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Instructor:
James Patton,
Associate Prof. of BioE
Office: SEO 222, phone 413-7664
Email: pattonj@uic.edu (this is the best way to
reach)
Times:
11-11:50 Tuesdays (CRN
11536)
Location:
Room 236, 2nd floor of SEO building, east campus,
UIC
Credits:
1
hours pass-fail (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only). Students who are
presenting seminars should register for 1 hour, others for 0 hour. Note that the rule
for BioEngineering PhD students has changed so that now all students must take
this class twice, each time for 1 credit (not zero).
Prerequisite(s):
Restricted
to Engineering,
Text:
Suggested
reference texts:
|
·
The
Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte |
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·
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte |
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·
Visual
Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte |
|
·
The
Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within by Edward
R. Tufte, |
|
·
Visual
& Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making by
Edward R. Tufte |
Main Objectives:
· Each student should experience with and instruction for quality technical communication in the
context of bioengineering.
Course Outline:
|
Date |
Week |
Description |
assignment due |
Presenter 1 |
Presenter 2 |
Presenter 3 |
|
26-Aug |
1 |
Intro, presenting,
writing
papers; proposal
briefs; |
|
|
|
|
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2-Sep |
2 |
Good presentations (guest James
Sulzer) |
|
|
|
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9-Sep |
3 |
Student presentation 1 |
|
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|
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16-Sep |
4 |
Student presentations 2 |
|
Smit |
Rebecca Bell |
|
|
23-sep |
5 |
Student presentation 3 |
|
Janhavi Giri |
Chi Bang |
|
|
30-Sep |
6 |
Student presentations 4 |
|
Steph Drake |
Jessica Yada |
Mohanraj |
|
7-Oct |
7 |
Student presentation 5 |
Sukhi Basati |
Yi Sui |
Chrystal Foster |
|
|
14-Oct |
8 |
Student presentations 6 |
|
Chi Bang |
Aman Gupta |
Brandon Lutz |
|
21-Oct |
9 |
Student presentation 7 |
|
Muhammad Qasim |
Hugo Caicedo |
Seonbyeong Kim |
|
28-Oct |
10 |
Student presentations 8 |
|
Ambarish Pawar |
Hamed Naimipour |
Matthew Lapsley |
|
4-Nov |
11 |
Student presentation 9 |
|
Liz Le master |
Xaygnaraj Joseph |
Peter Simon |
|
11-Nov |
12 |
Student presentations 10 |
|
Jling Iyizzyg
(?) |
Ashely Selner |
Joel Thomas |
|
18-Nov |
13 |
Student presentation 11 |
|
Pritesh Parmar |
Emily Mugler |
Chris Knowlton |
|
25-Nov |
14 |
thanksgiving break |
|
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|
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2-Dec |
15 |
Student presentation 12 |
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Grading:
· Attendance is mandatory for all classes.
· Please be prompt -- the time is constrained!
· Attend at least 6 bioengineering Seminars during the term beyond class time. You may substitute
another seminar if you printout and have a faculty sign the form. Get the form
from the bioengineering office or download it from here
o
Click here
for UIC seminar schedule.
o
other
local schedules that may be of
interest.
§
General list of UIC
seminars (thanks, Junaid)
§
Sensory-Motor
Performance program at the rehabilitation institute of Chicago
§
U of Chicago Organismal Biology and Anatomy
§
Rush physiology (thanks, Junaid)
· Each student must attend
each class meeting (special cases by permission of the instructor only).
· Each person must give ONE 15-minute presentations during the
term, plan for approximately 12 minutes with 2 (or so) minutes
questions. Transitions should fill the hour. This term all presentations should
be in the form of A RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL -- each presentation
should have a rationale that clearly states a problem, a brief and focused
Background on what others may have done in the past, and what you propose to do
(including methodological approaches and hypotheses or tests of success.)
· Each student must hand in one proposal brief.
See schedule above.
Misc Notes and
readings:
· HowToSolveMacPresentationsOnAPC.htm. (thanks to Ananda
Fine)
· Guidelines: Presentations How To by James Patton
· Guidelines: How
to do a research project and write a good paper by James Patton
· The
cognitive style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte (an
extreme view of the bad side of PowerPoint)
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