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The Bioengineering System Prototyping Laboratory is a fast-paced, team-based system engineering experience, in which teams of 2-3 students design and build a bioengineering-relevant system (e.g., centrifuge) that meets a set of common requirements along with a set of unique team-determined requirements. Students learn-by-doing hands-on skills in electronics and mechanical design and fabrication. Teams also develop process skills and an engineering mindset by aligning specifications with requirements, developing output metrics and measuring performance, and creating project proposals and plans. The course culminates in demonstration of a fully functioning system that meets the teams' self-determined metrics. Learning goals: 1) Design, fabricate, integrate, and characterize practical electronic and mechanical hardware systems that meet clear requirements in the context of Bioengineering (i.e., build something that works). 2) Use prototyping tools, techniques, and instruments, including: CAD, 3D printing, laser cutting, microcontrollers, and oscilloscopes. 3) Create quantitative system specifications and test measurement plans to demonstrate that a design meets user requirements. 4) Communicate design elements, choices, specifications, and performance through design reviews and written reports. 5) Collaborate as a team member on a complex system design project (e.g., a centrifuge). Limited enrollment, with priority for Bioengineering undergraduates. Prerequisites: Physics 43, or equivalent. Experience with Matlab and/or Python is recommended.

First course of two-quarter sequence. Team-based project introduces students to the process of designing new bioengineering technologies to address unmet societal needs. Methods and processes include need specification, brainstorming, concept selection, system specification, and system engineering/design via iterative prototyping and experimentation. First quarter focuses on the innovation process, with teams going from need-specification to initial project plans. Lectures and labs include interactive project work and expert speakers. Prerequisites: BIOE123 and BIOE44.

Second course of two-quarter sequence. Team based project introduces students to the process of designing new bioengineering technologies to address unmet societal needs. Focus is on implementation and demonstration of technical feasibility of the first quarter design. Primary deliverables/timelines based on each team's project plan, with weekly mentoring and design reviews during lecture/lab. Guest sessions introduce next-step aspects of bioengineering innovation projects: regulation, intellectual property, commercialization. Prerequisites: BIOE123 and BIOE44. Limited to seniors in Bioengineering (or instructor consent).

3D bioprinting promises engineered tissues with precise structure, composition, and cellular architecture. This biofabrication technology lies at the interface of biology, bioengineering, materials science, and instrumentation. This course will teach some of the latest technologies through fundamental lectures and hands-on 3D bioprinting workshops. Student groups will embark on independent projects to innovate in any aspect or application of 3D bioprinting hardware, wetware, or software. Experience in tissue engineering ( BIOE260), instrumentation ( BIOE123), or biomaterials ( MATSCI 381) is helpful but not required.