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.
- Guidelines: Email etiquette guidelines-Important (pdf)
- 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: Guidelines for BME Design BPAGs (Google slides)
- Document: Guidelines for proposals for design project funding-from the department (pdf)
- Document: Design class invoice (doc)
- Link: BPAG expense spreadsheet template (Google sheet)
Design Topics
BME Design - selection day class presentation
- Link: The design process
- Video: Codes and Standards
Safety
- Document: Safety guideline and training flowchart (pdf)
- Link: Training record look-up tool
Ethics Topics, Human Subjects Research, Human Factors/Ergonomics/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
- Guidelines: Notebook guidelines (pdf)
- Rubric: Assessment rubric for BME Design (pdf)
- Link: LabArchives MyNotebook (login)
- Document: A few sample entries - ELN Pdf with comments (pdf)
- Video: The importance of lab and design notebooks
Progress Reports
- Guidelines: Progress report sample and guidelines (pdf)
- Document: Progress report blank template (docx)
- Video: Writing progress reports
Product Design Specification (PDS)
- Guidelines: Product Design Specification (PDS) guidelines (pdf)
- Video: How to write a product design specification
Design (Decision) Matrix
- Guidelines: Design matrix guidelines (pdf)
Preliminary Presentations
- Guidelines: Preliminary presentation guidelines (pdf)
- Eval: Faculty form for preliminary presentation evaluation (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
- Instructions: Instructions for Show and Tell (gdoc)
Reports (Preliminary and Final)
- Guidelines: Report guidelines (pdf), (BME 402 guidelines below)
- Guidelines: Citation guidelines (IEEE) pdf
- Rubric: Assessment rubric for BME Design (pdf)
- Link: Citation mangers - UW-Madison supported systems
- Link: Microsoft Word - Heading formatting with automatic table of contents
- Link: Google Docs - Heading formatting with automatic table of contents
Poster Presentations
- Requirements: Poster presentation guidelines (gdoc)
- Eval: Faculty form for final poster presentation evaluation (docx)
- Document: Tips for creating stunning posters (pdf)
- Video: How to make good posters
- Link: Scientific poster PowerPoint templates
- BME Design logos
Executive Summary for Awards at the Spring Poster Session
- Executive summaries should be 1 page, single spaced, ~12 pt font without figures or references (instead of references you can include statements such as "according to SOURCE in YEAR, STAT" in the text, etc.). Please include the proper name of the file in 3 places:
- Top of the page
- Title of the file
- Title of document you upload *for BWIG:
Name: 301 (or 402) - Tong (or Excellence or TECH) - Poster Number - Abbreviated Project Name - Executive Summary.pdf - Guidelines: BME Design Awards: Entry guidelines and executive Summary (pdf)
- Document: Sample Executive Summary - Biocidal Drain Tube (pdf)
- Document: Sample Executive Summary - Cast Boot (pdf)
- Document: Sample Executive Summary - MRI Head Holder (pdf)
- Link: BME Design Tong Awards
BME Senior Design (402): Presentation and Journal Article Requirements
- Guidelines: BME 402 requirements (pdf)
- 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
- Document: "Outreach seminar slides (pdf)
- Guidelines: Outreach presentation and report outline (pdf)
- Document: BME outreach activity template (docx)
- Eval: Faculty form for outreach evaluation (docx)
- Document: EXAMPLE biomimicry outreach activity (pdf)
- Link: General form to evaluate outreach activity by organization (doc)
- Link: UW-Madison photo release policy
- Document: UW-Madison photo release form (pdf)
Design Resources
BME Teaching Laboratories, Design Studio, and CoE Facilities
- BME Teaching Labs - Equipment list, manuals and schedules
The BME Teaching Labs are open - see contacts below for assistance with equipment: - BME Design Studio, Room 1080 and 1070 ECB - Dr. John Puccinelli
- The BME Experimental Teaching Lab, Room 1002 ECB - Dr. John Puccinelli
- Bioinstrumentation and Medical Device Lab, Room 1036 ECB - Dr. Amit Nimunkar
- 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
- 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 initials to their youngest one) - 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
- Link: 3D Systems Quickparts - Rapid Prototyping: Where it's easy to buy custom-designed parts that meet your needs
- Free LabVIEW technical support from National Instruments. Call: 866-ASK-MYNI
Beyond BME Design - Taking Your Project to the Next Step (Patent 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)
- Googlesheet: List of UW Campus Programs and Contacts for Startup Resources
- Link: UW Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic (Free)
- Document: UW Non-disclosure agreement template (docx)
Design and Innovation Competitions
- Link: Google Doc of many competitions and deadlines prepared by UW-BME
- UW Campus Competitions
- National Competitions
- Link: VentureWell BME Idea Undergraduate Design Competition
- Link: NIH NIBIB VentureWell DEBUT Competition
- Link: Collegiate Inventors
- Link: Workplace Innovation and Design
- Link: RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) Design Competition
- Link: Create the Future: Design Contest
- Link: Qualcomm Tricorder Prize
- Link: Nokia Sensing Challenge
Advising Resources
- Document: BME Design course Advising Day slides (Google slides)
Evaluation Forms
BME Design Grading Criteria
Faculty Evaluation Forms
- Faculty form for notebook evaluation (see canvs)
- Faculty form for preliminary presentation evaluation (docx)
- Faculty form for preliminary presentation Evaluation BME 402 only (docx)
- Faculty form for report evaluation (see canvas)
- Faculty form for final poster Presentation evaluation (docx)
- Faculty form for final presentation evaluation BME 201 only (docx)
- Faculty form for senior outreach evaluation (docx)
- Client form for evaluation of team (doc)
Student Evaluation Forms
- Student form for client eval by team (doc)
- Student form for peer evaluation of preliminary presentations (doc)
- Student instructions for peer evaluation of posters (gdoc)