BIOE 498 : Senior Design 2008-2009

 

Welcome to BIOE 498, Senior Design 2008-2009!

Instructor:

Dr. Michael J. Haney
Email: m-haney@illinois.edu
Phone: 217-244-6425
BioE Office: 3113 Digital Computer Lab
Physics Office: 457 Loomis Lab

Team-Instructor Meetings

Fall 2008 Schedule

Sign Up (via email)

Resources:

Dr. Ken Gentry
Office: 3225 Digital Computer Lab

Text:

None this semester (Fall 2008)

But if there were a text, it would have been:

Engineering Design, by Rudolph J. Eggert,
Prentice Hall, 2004.
(Note: Pearson Prentice Hall says 2005...)

Now on reserve at Grainger Library - 16 Sept 2008

Not as available (yet)

Engineering Design, by George E. Dierter and Linda C. Schmidt,
McGraw Hill, 2009.

Lectures:

Tuesday and Thursday
5pm - 6:20pm
2320 DCL

Individual Assignments:

  • Due: 28 August 2008
    see "By Next Time" slide in Orientation Lecture
  • Due: 2 September 2008
    see "Warm-up Assignment" slide in Lecture 2
    in-class Interview - notes
  • Due: 11 September 2008
    see "Concept Assignment" slide in Lecture 4
    in-class Interview - notes
  • Due: 18 September 2008
    see "Configuration Assignment" slide in Lecture 6
  • Be prepared, 30 September 2008
    in-class FMEA Exercise: Class II, A2 Biological Safety Cabinet
  • Due: 2 October 2008
    see "Parametric Design Assignment" slides in Lecture 8
    in-class questions and answers
  • Due: 31 October 2008 (before midnight, Halloween)
    Project Selection +3-1 List (see Projects, below)

  • Due: 20 March 2009 (before Spring Break)
    see "Design Notebook" slides in Lecture 20
  • Due: 8 May 2009 (before Finals)
    see "Design Notebook" slides in Lecture 20
  • Due: 8 May 2009 (before Finals)
    see "Final Report" (tba)

Team Assignments:

  • Due: 18, Nov 2008
    see "First Meeting Assignment" slide(s) in Lecture 21,
    as well as
    • "Problem Statement"
    • "Mission Statement"
    • "Project Objectives"
    • "Design Notebook (1..5)"
    slides in Lecture 20,
    and our draft/template Memorandum of Understanding
    • And, if it will help... examples from 2007-2008
  • Due: 21 Nov 2008 (before Fall Break):
    Project-specific "Draft MOU" derived from the above
  • Due: 1 Dec 2008 (after Fall Break):
    Sign up for weekly Team-Instructor meetings

Projects:

Dr. Rohit Bhargava, Bioengineering
- Biodegradagble scaffold to study epithelial-stromal interactions in engineered tissue
(Biomaterials, modeling, chemistry)
- Optimized needle probe for breast cancer diagnosis
(FTIR, optics, modeling, packaging)
- Sampling system for wet tissue infrared spectroscopic imaging
(FTIR, live cell cultures, mechanics)

Dr. Stephen Boppart, Bioengineering
- 2 project ideas
- details protected

Dr. Wayne Davis, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
- A cellular lifeline for requesting emergency assistance
(Repackage and program a cellar chip with on-board GPS capability
to seek emergency assistance in nearly all locations)

Dr. Eric Jakobsson, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Dr. Jeffrey L. Tilson, Renaissance Computing Institute (North Carolina)
Gloria Rendon, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- MotifNetwork: An Environment For High-Throughput Domain Analysis
(Bioinformatics, workflows, web services, parallel/grid processing, software(various))

Steven Meulink, Zimmer, Inc.
- Intra-operative Leg Length Assessment (metrology, sensors, materials, mechanics)

Dr. William D. O'Brien, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- acoustic tweezers (acoustics, modeling, bioeffects of sound, RF power)

Dr. Gerald Pijanowski, Veterinary Biosciences
- Automated segmentation of CT/MR images for Virtual Canine Anatomy
(image processing, software (MATLAB), rapid prototyping, virtual reality)

Dr. Nathan Price, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Biological network inference software package (Bioinformatics, software(Matlab))

Dr. Gerard Wong, Materials Science and Engineering
- Bacterial Motility Classification using Particle Tracking Algorithms
(Image processing, tracking, pattern classification, software(IDL))

Project Solicitation (to Clients)

Project Rules for Clients

Project Solicitation (to Students)

Presentations:

30 September 2008

Dr. Gerald Pijanowski (ppt)

Dr. Rohit Bhargava

2 October 2008

Dr. Wayne Davis (ppt)

7 October 2008

Dr. Stephen Boppart (ppt)

21 October 2008

Dr. Eric Jacobsson; Dr. Jeffrey Tilson (ppt, pdf)

23 October 2008

Max Gibiansky; Dr. Gerard Wong (ppt)

Dr. William D. O'Brien (ppt); Ellora Sen-Gupta (ppt)

Zimmer, Inc (ppt)

Dr. Nathan Price (ppt)

Project Resources:

Reliability

Human Factors Engineering

Drawing, and CAD/CAM:

Project Planning

Bioengineering Department Order Form

Life Sciences Storeroom Order Form

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