MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

Introduce innovative students to your industry

• Student Design Projects: Sponsor a biomedical engineering student project for your company. A select student group will work on a client-based biomedical design project that you suggest under the auspices of a faculty member.

• Targeted Summer Internships: Your student project group members can continue their project during summer internships at your company and receive course credit.

• Student Co-ops: If desired, your student group members can take an optional semester-long co-op at your company to work on their project and receive course credit.

• Access to Students: By sponsoring a student design project, you will encourage students to acquire the technical skills needed for your company, starting from an early stage of their engineering training. You can track potential hires throughout their educational development.

• Exposure: Your sponsorship will be acknowledged in departmental publications and websites and displayed at student design project functions, giving your company direct exposure to students, the university community and the public.

• Student Presentations and Reports: Sponsors will be invited to attend student presentations of all projects. Your company can participate in student evaluations and you will also receive copies of student project reports.

GOALS OF THE CONSORTIUM

Prepare a student to meet your company's challenges

Our unique program promotes design throughout the education of biomedical engineers. Design is the essence of engineering; it transforms scientific knowledge into reality. Remarkable advances in biotechnology and medicine demand that biomedical engineers receive practical training to bring the promises of these advances to fruition:

• Creating new medical instruments
• Making the world accessible to people with disabilities
• Developing new therapeutic devices and treatments

Design is best learned by increments through hands-on experience. Students take design courses every semester during their sophomore through senior years, working in teams on projects for real clients. This team-based learning in design courses enables early and intermediate level students to learn from their more advanced peers.

This novel approach gives students a balanced education, which incorporates clinical and industry issues. Students can have an optional co-op experience with a medical device manufacturer, hospital or laboratory.

CLIENT-BASED PROJECTS

Inspire an engineer

Participating companies propose project topics to suit their interest. Here are a few examples of ongoing and recently completed projects.

Current Projects

• Mounting system for Doppler ultrasound evaluation of prosthetic heart valves
• MR or CT gantry for graded pelvic rotation
• Image geometric analyses in orthopedics
• System for pH measurement inside incubator
• Microwave oven for disabled individuals
• Fluid drainage for paralyzed individuals
• Devices for thermal control for fruit fly studies
• Sensor for vestibular feedback system
• Thermal probe for neurological examination
• Instrument to study primate startle response

Recently Completed Projects

• Localization for peripheral nerve block
• Body thermal regulation for quadriplegics
• Automated device for microwave breast imaging
• Device to measure tumor size from x-ray film
• Magnetically compatible device to position breast MR biopsy needle
• Device to preserve bone tissue during immobilization
• Mouth-based electrotactile information display
• Loader for DNA sequencing instrument
• Nonadhesive bioreactor for in-vitro cell culture
• Neurosurgery tool to cut through infant skull
• Tool to aid in "third ventriculostomy" for the treatment of hydrocephalus
• Device to quantify swallowing behavior
• System to monitor epilepsy in rodents
• Tele-rehab device to monitor back exercise

JOINING THE CONSORTIUM

The annual fee for membership in the Biomedical Engineering Student Design Consortium is $6,000.

Your membership fee provides sponsorship of a student design project culminating in a report and student group presentations every semester. Sponsorship of multiple projects is encouraged and available at reduced incremental amounts.

Memorandum of Agreement This document is also available as a 75 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Professor Robert G. Radwin, Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering Room 2130 Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1609 Tel: 608/263-4660 Fax: 608/265-9239 E-mail: bme@engr.wisc.edu www.bme.wisc.edu
	Biomedical Engineering STUDENT DESIGN CONSORTIUM Printed brochure (200 KB PDF)