An experience of a multidisciplinary activity in a Biomedical Engineering Master Degree

Abstract

Training Biomedical Engineers presents major challenges because of the different backgrounds they are coming from. These activities should stimulate the student's professional skills and, in the particular case of a Master Degree, this is even more complicated. It represents a higher educational level where students should increase and improve their ability to solve problems related to very different areas such as the engineering and biomedical. The Biomedical Master Degree shared between the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and the Universitat de Barcelona has students coming with extremely different backgrounds, from the medical or biological to the engineering profile. Taking into account this situation, we have developed a 4-days multidisciplinary charge activity in a particular course of Biomedical Devices. It is focused on the amperometric sensors and in the conception and application of biopotentiostat amplifiers. Regardless the student's profile the activity is focused in such a way that everyone has to work actively in the experience. This paper presents a proposal based on cooperative learning strategy and the feedback that students give to the learning process as a first approach for future improvements.