Homework, Attendance, and Grading Page
BME/EE/CompE/ME 297 - Fall 2004
# indicates homework number as shown on Oak
#1. 8/25/2004 an in-class exercise was done for 10 points. Attendance was taken.
#2. 9/1/2004 Your assignment is to get your resume filed with the Vanderbilt University Career Center, per the discussion given by Callie Leousis. You have until 5:00 9/15/2004 to do this. 10 Points.
#3. 9/8/2004 Your assignment is (due 9/15/2004 start of class):
a. Visit the USPTO web site and do a default inventor search for patents using your last name as inventor. Print out this list and comment on one of the patents. (If your name does not appear, use Farnsworth.)
b. Perform a patent search for patents using a technology term appropriate for your major and potential project interest. Print out your results page and comment on your results.
Attendance was taken, using the IP & Your Project Forms
#4. 9/15/2004 Ladder Falls and
Designsafe:
Part A: Hundreds of people each year die or are injured due to falls
from ladders. One example would be a death due to reaching too far while
cleaning out gutters, resulting in an imbalance of the ladder and a fall with
its consequences. Using the designsafe software, perform a hazard analysis and
risk assessment for the above task. Use the prompts on the risk assessment page to
determine some of your options to decrease this risk. Print out your risk
analysis report, add comments on the results.
Part B: Discuss a few other methods to avoid this risk – with the constraint that the gutter cleaner remains on the ground while accomplishing the cleaning task. One or two methods should be briefly discussed.
As this is your first exposure to this software, you may work in groups of up to three to do this problem set. The software should be in the engineering (Jacobs) ICL and in the BME lab. Due 9/22/2004, start of class, 10 points total.
9/22/2004 no attendance, no homework - graduate & professional schools discussion.
#5. 9/29/2004 - Reliability & Testing Lecture
Part A: An occupied wheelchair moved on its own accord in a hospital environment, injuring the occupant. How would you investigate this accident? What tests were probably not run properly on the wheelchair prior to sale?
Part B: Your company will sell and ship a small computer-based medical device worldwide. Go to www.ista.org and determine which set of tests your shipping containers should pass. Determine a Tennessee company that can be of assistance in this testing. Report your results.
#6 10/6/2004 - Review the lecture given today, visit the web for information as necessary, answer the questions posed under "hypothetical" part one and two on a separate sheet of paper, turn in on 10/13/2004 in class.
#7 10/13/2004 - Dr Dozier's Contracts lecture, click here for the assignment, due date will be at the start of class on 11/3/2004.
#8 10/20/2004 - Tim Taylor's lecture on entrepreneurship - here is the assignment, due 10/27/2004, start of class
Part A: Do a web search of the Vanderbilt Web site using the term "entrepreneur". Where are the major activities at Vanderbilt? (2 or more examples to convince the TA you looked...)
Part B: Go to the tech transfer office: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/technology_transfer/ , go to the Portfolio Companies page. Link to one of the 9 companies that are in Vanderbilt's portfolio that have a current active web site link of their own (InformaTx, Mindscore, and NovaBionics links are broken, CSA has none, DiscoveryLifeSciences has no links). Briefly report to your TA the product/service supplied by the company. Also answer the question, is Vanderbilt entrepreneurial in these endeavors?
10/27/2004 No homework assigned.
#9 11/3/2004 Dr. Collins' lecture on ethics - here is the assignment:
1. Log onto the electronic Learning Management System (eLMS)
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Access the eLMS by pointing your Internet Explorer browser to
https://elms.vanth.org (note the s at the end of https because the url is a
link to a secure server.
Use your standard VUNetid authentication method you use to access Vanderbilt
accounts like Blackboard. That is, your user name is your VUNetid and your
password is whatever you selected to access Vanderbilt accounts.
There are a few system requirements including the need to
2. After logging in, you should see a menu of courseware with only one
item. The list will contain either "EngineeringSurvey" or "EngineeringSurvey1".
Please launch this item and complete it by November 19. The activity sound
take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Please email Dr. Sean Brophy at
mailto://sean.brophy@vanderbilt.edu if you have any difficulties.
#10 11/10/2004 Dr. Kinser's Lecture on Rapid Prototyping: Perform a Google search with the term "rapid prototyping" and one of the following terms: Biomedical, Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical (with or without the term Engineering). For the TA, print out one item of interest to you and write up a brief description of the device/process discussed. Also report what search term you used and how many "hits" you got. Due 11/17/2004 at the start of class.
#11 11/17/2002 Mr. Freeman's lecture on products liability, responses to the two questions below due in class on 12/1/2004.
1. Briefly discuss the meaning of "state of the art" as it applies to potential liability arising from a product of your choice. Suggested products might include the Segway transporter, an aortic stent, an airbag sensor actuator circuit etc.
2. You are injured by a
Bowflex machine. (See
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/16/bowflex.recall.ap/index.html
). According to Mr. Freeman, what grounds do you have for a lawsuit?
#12 12/1/2004 - Dr David Owens' talk on teamwork: the homework exercise is posted in his PowerPoint presentation, which is linked off of the schedule page. This exercise is due at the beginning of class on 12/8/2004.
Grading: It is anticipated that 12 of the 15 sessions will have a homework assignment worth 10 points each. Your grade based upon homework alone will be your total points divided by 110 points. This allows for one missing homework.
This grade will be modified by an attendance grade, if deemed appropriate by the instructors. The attendance grade will be computed using a correction factor = (.95)**(number of absences -1), this value not to exceed 1.0. This allows for one "free" absence. Excused absences must be allowed by the current instructor (King.)
Your overall grade will be the homework grade as modified by this correction factor.