Biological and medical engineering group project (IIBM3105)

This is an interdisciplinary remote grou-work course for students from the Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering.

The course aims to provide students with project management techniques and interdisciplinary team-working skills that are directly applicable to their future research projects. Students will work in teams to engage in a practical project requiring input from a variety of scientific areas related to the interface of engineering, biology and medicine. Project questions will be defined by the multi-disciplinary group of participating professors who will also be responsible for the direct supervision of the research work together with external company advisors. At least two professors from a different field supervise each group.

Students are expected to gain some experience in the various different aspects of group collaboration. These include running meetings, making collective decisions, time and people management, and writing reports. Students must combine skills related to the identification and resolution of biomedical problems, through collaborative design, innovation, use of information technologies, computational modeling, medical ethics and social responsibility.

Content:

1. Understanding of requirements and definition of tasks 1.1. Study analysis and study design 1.2. Experimental work of the various project components 1.3. Interpretation and communication of results.
2. Project planning and management 2.1. Research study design 2.2. Interdisciplinary teamwork and communication skills 2.3. Development of multidisciplinary scientific communication