UCSC BME 123A Fall 2009

Engineering Design Project I

(Last Update: 18:25 PST 20 November 2009 )

This is a required course for bioengineering students. For catalog copy and pre-requisites, see the main page for BME123.

Who, When, and Where:

This fall, BME123A is crosslisted with CMPE123A and EE123A. The main web page is the cmpe123a page.

Instructors:

Kevin Karplus ( karplus@soe.ucsc.edu): http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus
Office hours: PSB 318, W 10:30-11:30
+1-831-459-4250
Kenneth Laws (kip@soe.ucsc.edu): http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kip/
Office hours: BE129, perhaps MWF 5:00-6:00 pm
+1-831-459-1912
Stephen Petersen (petersen@soe.ucsc.edu): Office hours: BE117, hours unknown
+1-831-4599-4782

TA:

David Munday (cromom@soe.ucsc.edu): Office hours: ??, hours unknown.

Lectures: MWF 12:30-1:40, Physical Sciences Building 110

Final exam slot: Mon Dec 7 8 a.m.–11 a.m.
We may use this exam slot for design presentations.

Online discussion forum: http://seniordesign.soe.ucsc.edu will have project descriptions, student bios, team blogs, and so forth. This is where you'll turn in assignments, form teams, and document your projects. You do have to register in order to get access, but there will be some public access to projects and even more project-sponsor access.

Texts

There will be one required text: Teamwork and Project Management, 3rd edition by Karl A. Smith and P.K. Imbrie.

This text will mainly be used as an organizing aid for student presentations and as a source of references to original material, so the fact that it is not very readable is not important for this course.

You will also need a bound lab notebook, with acid-free (archival) paper. The CMPE/EE instructors are recommending a large (8 1/2" by 11") format with gridded pages. You can browse lab notebooks at Palace Art and Office Supply downtown or order on the web from places like bookfactory.com

Reading assignments and other homework

The assignments have not been scheduled yet. Most likely they will appear first on the CMPE/EE 123A web page.

Date (to be) released	Assignment	Date Due

Evaluation

Academic Integrity

Anyone caught cheating in the class will be reported to their college provost (see UCSC policy on academic integrity) and may fail the class. Cheating includes any attempt to claim someone else's work as your own. Plagiarism in any form (including close paraphrasing) will be considered cheating. Use of any source without proper citation will be considered cheating. If you are not certain about citation standards, please ask, as I hate having to fail students because they were improperly taught how to cite sources.

Collaboration without explicit written acknowledgment will be considered cheating. Collaboration on lab assignments with explicit written acknowledgment is encouraged—guidelines for the extent of reasonable collaboration will be given in class.

Classroom Accommodations for Disabilities

If you qualify for classroom accommodations because of a disability, please submit your Accommodation Authorization from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me during my office hours in a timely manner, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter. Contact DRC at 459-2089 (voice), 459-4806 (TTY).

Rogues' Gallery

A few of the photos came out badly blurred, and I may have messed up the exposure correction on others (so skin colors may be off). If you are not satisfied with your photo, contact me and I'll retake it under better conditions.

Adam Rogers	Albert Perez-Romero	Alejandro Fidalgo	Alex Knott	Bert Linderkamp
Brandon Kinman	Chandler Miguelgorry	Chuck Chan	Donald Simpson	Eric Chen
Gal Kaftan	Gerald (Max) Cherf	Gregory Wong	Jessica Higgins	Joi Barnett
Jonathan Imperial	Jonathan Kamei	Kelly Kitagawa	Lorenzo Villanueva	Louis Bianchi
Melissa Eberle	Rahul Sethuram	Raj Maitra	Robert Dewey Helvestine	Robert Nakamura
Sahil Nayak	Samantha Downey	Scott Azarnoff	Sebastian Yates	Sergio Ruiz
Simranjit Singh	Terence Tsao	Tina Nguyen	Tyler Varin	Yannick Maiki

Schedule of activities

25 Sept	Administrivia
28 Sept	Self introductions and photos
30 Sept	Deep Dive video, break into groups of 4
2 Oct	9 groups presented 5-minute summaries of their impressions of the Deep Dive video
5 Oct	Project pitches by John Vesecky (RFID soil moisture sensors—not sure what is new: wireless soil moisture sensors are available off the shelf for about $50 retail) and Matthew Guthaus (FPGA Music Synth)
7 Oct	Project pitch by Sri Kurniawan for iPhone/iPod heart rate monitor (Note: not much hardware, as wireless (BlueTooth) heart-rate monitors are available off the shelf for $50). Introduction to Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator for personality type.
9 Oct	Feedback on first set of reflections. Project pitch for "Knowledge Federation".
12 Oct	Project pitch: assistive technology using bluetooth beacons (Roberto Manduchi). Project pitch: device for extracting DNA from sizing gel with low loss of DNA (Nader Pourmand). Gathering statistics on Meyer-Briggs tests.
14 Oct	Project pitch: high-school level bio teaching using stripped-down genome browser (Grant Hartzog). Discussion of ways to foster team formation and inter-disciplinary teams in the class.
16 Oct	Project pitch: autonomous kayak (Kip Laws). Repitch: Raj Maitra explained what Nader Pourmand's DNA extraction project was really about and where CMPE and EE students would fit in.
19 Oct	MBARI field trip 1:30-3:30
21 Oct	Student pitches for automotive "black box" and for portable, wireless sun/wind sensor.
23 Oct	System engineering short lecture, followed by design group brainstorming to design a thermal cycler for PCR.
26 Oct	Pitches by Mark Akeson (for nanopore signal processing) and Tyler (for SAMBA robotic vehicle)
28 Oct	Student group presentations of PCR objectives and block diagrams
30 Oct	Last student presentation of PCR. Lecture by David Munday on presentation style (slides and posture).
2 Nov	Steven and Kip presented Chapter 1.
4 Nov	Steven and Kip finished presentation of Chapter 1. Broke into project groups to try to get group memberships firmed up. Spoke with 7 students who planned to do individual projects (senior theses).
6 Nov	Project pitch for improved PCR machine. Petersen lecture on power supplies. Munday lecture on microprocessor choice.
9 Nov	Group 1 presentation on Chapter 2. Short presentation by Katia on BS/MS program in CMPE.
11 Nov	Veteran's Day, no class
13 Nov	Group 2 presentation (Chapter 3a). Kip Laws presentation on group charter.
16 Nov	Group 3 presentation (Chapter 3b). David Munday presentation on Gantt charts.
18 Nov	Group 4 presentation (Chapter 4). David Munday presentation on Project Budgets.
20 Nov	Kevin Karplus, Tech writing talk. Kip Laws, what final report should contain.
23 Nov
25 Nov
27 Nov	Thanksgiving, no class
30 Nov
2 Dec
4 Dec
Mon 7 Dec 8 a.m.–11 a.m.	Final exam slot. Do we use it?

Other resources on the web

SoE home

Kevin Karplus's home page

Biomolecular Engineering Department

BME 123 home page

CMPE 123A home page

CMPE 123A forum

http://seniordesign.soe.ucsc.edu

Questions about page content should be directed to Kevin Karplus
Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
karplus@soe.ucsc.edu
1-831-459-4250
318 Physical Sciences Building