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Francis A Spelman
BIOEN 534
Seattle Campus
Introduces practical skills and tools for commercializing medical device technologies. Topics include: entrepreneurship, funding models/sources, licensing options and product portfolio growth models, introduction to developing and delivering a business plan, building teams or integrating teams, market assessment, converting R&D to sales and distribution, manufacturing start up strategies, and project management.
Class description
1. The definitions of electric circuit elements and their analogues. 2. The way to analyze and synthesize useful active and passive circuits from fundamental circuit elements. 3. How to understand and use operational amplifiers as signal conditioners. 4. How to understand and use passive and active filters. 5. The basic applications of Fourier and Laplace transforms. 6. The design, construction, test and analysis of a simple measurement system.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
The course is offered as a combined lecture and laboratory course. Three lectures are offered weekly and there is a three-hour lab each week. The lecture period includes some work on example problems by groups of students. A major part of the course is a final project that is completed by teams of students. The project requires that the students design, build and test a small measurement system.
Recommended preparation
Students should have had engineering physics and calculus. A course in ordinary differential equations is helpful but not necessary.
Class assignments and grading
Problem sets are assigned weekly. There is a weekly laboratory, with written laboratory reports due. There are two midterm examinations and a final project and report. the written report is due on the last day of class. The oral portion of the project report is given on the day of the final exam. Attendance to present and hear the final reports is mandatory.
Homework: 20% Laboratory: 25% Midterms: 20% Final project: 35%
