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 |