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. 2018 Jun 7;140(8):0810091–0810098. doi: 10.1115/1.4040359

Table 4.

ENGR401-402: capstone senior design courses survey outcomes (n = 6, engineering students only)

Questions  Response Rate
Did BME 465 and BME 448 better prepare you for your senior design project? 100%-Agree
Did you feel more enthusiastic about your student-driven project where you identified a problem and sought a solution for it? 100%-Agree
Did the clinical project draw you close to the biomedical engineering field and its applications? 100%-Agree
Would you recommend other students to take their BME 448 project as their senior design project? 100%-Agree
Do you think continuing your work with nursing students helped you better design your product? 60%-Agree
Do you think the experience in this project is better than the traditional instructor- or industry-driven project? 80%-Agree
Do you feel better prepared for the real-world? 80%-Agree
Did you improve your communication skills through your interaction with the clinical advisor? 80%-Agree
Did you feel more confident in your problem understanding through clinical immersion? 100%-Agree
Do you think you successfully met the unmet clinical needs 100%-Agree
Would you patent your design? 100%-Agree
Does this project encourage the entrepreneur in you? 100%-Agree
Do you feel better prepared than others to solve unmet clinical needs? 100%-Agree
Do you feel you were able to use your technical proficiencies in solving the unmet need? 100%-Agree
Did doing this senior design project add to your understanding of the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the medical device innovation? 100%-Agree
Did this course offer you lifelong learning skills? 100%-Agree
Did the course encourage your critical thinking? 100%-Agree