Use Of Engineering Standards In Teaching Statistical Design Of Experiments In Biomedical Engineering

Engineering standards are used to teach applications of statistical principles and design of experiments in a new Biomedical Engineering (BME) course. This course, Design of Experiments (BME 346), was developed in response to input from industrial constituents for the new undergraduate BME degree program (begun during the 2000-01 academic year). Constituents wanted BME graduates to receive training in statistics for design of engineering experiments and interpretation of data. A key element of this course is an experimental design project based on applying statistical methods to an existing engineering standard. This project provides students with a real-world example of how to apply statistical principles to practical engineering problems and experiments. Student assignments for this project demonstrate 8 out of 11 outcomes required by ABET 2000 criteria.