Resources
Team Role Resources
Team leader
Responsible for organizing weekly progress reports, team goals and team meetings.
- Compile progress reports each week have your communicator send to advisor, client and team by 5:00 pm on Thursdays.
- Video: Leadership styles
- Video: Diverse teams
- Video: Building and maintaining teams
- Video: Conflict resolution
Communicator
Responsible for communications with the client and other professional contacts, as well as distributing progress reports. Be sure to use professional etiquette (see below) such as a proper salutation that includes their credentials. Inform your client of your presentation date (preliminary presentation and poster) and locations early in the semester and do not over email your client. You should copy your team and advisor on communications with your client to keep everyone on the same page. Highlight important notes from your communications in your design notebook.
- Requirements: Email etiquette instructions-Important (gDoc)
- Video: Professional communication
BSAC (Biomedical Student Advisory Committee)
Provides feedback to faculty about the design courses and curriculum and is chaired by an elected student. BSAC members also serve as peer advisors and mentors to the freshman.
- BSAC Chair: Srihari Gopalan
- Meetings will be Fridays at 11 am (6 times per semester) - see the semester schedule.
BWIG (Biomedical Web Implementation Group)
Responsible for the team's website and the overall website is overseen by the BWIG chair.
- BWIG Webmaster: Harshal Kanade
- Designate the roles for your team - first day of class
BPAG (Biomedical Purchasing and Accounting Group)
Responsible for ensuring that all necessary materials are acquired and for maintaining all financial records for the team.
- Presentation: Requirements for BME Design BPAGs (gSlides)
- Document: Guidelines for proposals for design project funding-from the department (gDoc)
- Document: Design class invoice (doc)
- Link: BPAG expense spreadsheet template (gSheet)
Design topics
BME Design - selection day class presentation
- Link: The design process
- Video: Codes and Standards
Safety
- Document: Safety requirements and training flowchart (pdf)
- Link: Training record look-up tool
Ethics, human subjects research, human factors, ergonomics and universal design
- Video: Design ethics
- Link: Course on research ethics
- Link: Code of ethics for engineers (BMES-Biomedical Engineering Society)
- Link: Code of ethics for engineers (National Society of Professional Engineers)
- Link: Engineers' creed (National Society of Professional Engineers)
- Document: Basic ethical principles (pdf)
- Document: Ethics considerations (pdf)
- Document: Human subjects research (pdf)
- Document: BME universal design (narration and notes) (ppt)
- Document: J.G. Webster textbook - Design for Biomedical Engineers (pdf)
Technical communication
- Document: EPD advice for technical communication (pdf)
- Document: Acknowledging paraphrasing and quoting sources (pdf)
- Document: Citing the work of others (pdf)
Literature searching
- Video: Literature searches
- Video: Reading a journal article
Weekly advisor meetings
- Requirements: Weekly advisor meeting expectations (gDoc)
Design notebooks
- Requirements: Notebook instructions (gDoc)
- Rubric: Assessment rubric for BME Design (gDoc)
- Link: LabArchives MyNotebook (login)
- Document: BME 201 - Notebook lab manual with sample entries (gDoc)
- Video: The importance of lab and design notebooks
Progress reports
- Requirements: Progress report instructions and template (gDoc)
- Video: Writing progress reports
Product Design Specification (PDS)
- Requirements: Product Design Specification (PDS) instructions and template (gDoc)
- Video: How to write a product design specification
Design (decision) matrix
- Requirements: Design matrix instructions (gDoc)
Preliminary presentations
- Requirements: Preliminary presentation instructions (gDoc)
- Eval: Faculty form for preliminary presentation evaluation (docx)
- Faculty form for final presentation evaluation BME 201 only (docx)
- Video: How to make a good PowerPoint presentations
- Video: Mastering science and public presentations
- Video: Humorous video about PowerPoint errors
- PPT: Terrible presentations...and how to not give one (ppt)
Show and tell
- Requirements: Show and Tell instructions (gDoc)
Reports (preliminary and final)
- Requirements: Report instructions (gDoc), (BME 402 instructions below)
- Requirements: Citation guidelines (IEEE) pdf
- Rubric: Assessment rubric for BME Design (gDoc)
- Link: Citation mangers - UW-Madison supported systems
- Link: gDocs - Using headings for automatic table of contents
Executive Summary for awards at the spring poster session
- Requirements: BME Design Awards: Entry guidelines and executive Summary instructions (gDoc)
- Document: Sample Executive Summary - Biocidal Drain Tube (pdf)
- Document: Sample Executive Summary - Cast Boot (pdf)
- Link: BME Design Tong Awards
Poster presentations
- Requirements: Poster presentation instructions (gDoc)
- Eval: Faculty form for final poster presentation evaluation (docx)
- Student instructions for peer evaluation of posters (gDoc)
- Document: Tips for creating stunning posters (pdf)
- Video: How to make good posters
- Link: Scientific poster PowerPoint templates
- BME Design logos
BME senior design (402): Presentation and journal article requirements
- Requirements: BME 402 requirements (gDoc)
- Eval: Faculty form for preliminary presentation Evaluation BME 402 only (docx)
- Document: BME 402 - Writing a Research Paper - Whitesides (pdf)
- Rubric: Assessment rubric for BME Design (pdf)
BME senior design: Outreach requirements
- Link: BME outreach file submission
- Presentation: "Outreach seminar slides (gSlides)
- Requirements: Outreach presentation and report outline (pdf)
- Document: BME outreach activity template (docx)
- Eval: Faculty form for outreach evaluation (docx)
- Eval: Teacher or organization outreach evaluation form (doc)
- Document: EXAMPLE biomimicry outreach activity (pdf)
- Link: UW-Madison photo release policy
- Document: UW-Madison photo release form (pdf)
Team evaluation forms
- Client form for evaluation of team Dr.P sends to client (doc)
- Student form for client eval by team Return to Dr.P and your advisor (doc)
- Student instructions for Feedback Fruits Peer and self evaluation found in Canvas
Design resources
BME teaching laboratories, design studio, and CoE facilities
- BME Teaching Labs - Equipment list, manuals and schedules
See contacts below for assistance with equipment: - BME teaching lab map - ECB's first floor
- BME Design Studio, Room 1080 and 1070 ECB - Dr. John Puccinelli
- The BME Experiential Teaching Lab, Room 1002 ECB - Dr. John Puccinelli
- Bioinstrumentation and Medical Device Lab, Room 1036 ECB - Dr. Amit Nimunkar
- Project storage: all items (shelves or cabinets) must be labeled properly:
"Team short Name, Semester/Year, Contact Email" or the contents will be removed. Storage is available in the back on 1002/1004 and in the closet within 1070. Do not store projects in 1080. - Keycard access request form for 1002 ECB
- Access is granted to 1002/1004 only (not 1002A or instructor storage)
- Comment: BME Design use
- Access to the Design Studio - see Dr. P or your fellow students for the lock box code on the side door of room 1080 ECB (The Dr. Ps are nerds and gave these initials to their youngest) - Please relock the box!
- CoE facilities for prototyping
- CoE TEAM Lab - machining and materials (glues, tapes, etc. free - no more fee!)
- CoE Makerspace - all your 3D printing needs and more
3D printing and general fabrication resources (outside of CoE)
- Link: Vapor smoothing 3D printed parts
- Link: Misumi - a place to get parts and CAD drawings of the parts
- Link: University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Sciences Lab (PSL) - General machining and fabrication
- Link: Curvilnear Components - General machining and fabrication
- Link: Proto labs - Rapid Prototyping: CNC machined parts and injection molded parts
- Link: Sector 67 - Rapid Prototyping: Center for Prototyping, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing - A place to learn and build things
- Free LabVIEW technical support from National Instruments. Call: 866-ASK-MYNI
Beyond BME Design: Taking your project to the next step (patent, competitions and more)
- Video: Intellectual property (IP) in design
- Video: IP agreements
- Video: Patent application process
- Link: WARF - Submit in Invention Disclosure Report (IDR)
- Document: Are we covered- Understanding the strengths and weakness of patenting policy (pdf)
- Document: Patenting (intellectual property - IP) your design (pdf)
- Document: List of UW Campus Programs and Contacts for Startup Resources (gSheet)
- Link: UW Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic (Free)
- Document: UW Non-disclosure agreement (NDA) template (docx)
- Document: Design and Innovation Competitions - List of many competitions and deadlines prepared by UW-BME (gSheet)
Advising resources
- Document: BME Design course Advising Day slides (gSlides)
- Video: BME Design course Advising Day video - Academic Advising
- Video: BME Design course Advising Day - Post Grad Advising