Table 4.
Student comments on the DIY EKG project.
| I thought the do it yourself EKG lab was incredibly cool. It was the only hands-on thing I've been able to do since COVID started so it was really refreshing/fun as well as being a great learning experience. |
| ECG lab was a lot of fun! I loved it, I loved building it, I definitely learned a lot during the lab. |
| I liked the DIY EKG kits. (The TA’s) instructions were easy to follow, and it was fun to build. It was cool to see my own EKG reading. |
| The DIY EKG was one of the my favorite parts of the class, and I got a lot of satisfaction from being able to actually build something instead of just using a lab machine to measure my EKG |
| I think the EKG kits allowed students (at least me) to enjoy an aspect of the course that felt more in-person. |
| I loved the DIY EKG lab. Thank you so much for mailing those kits out! |
| DIY EKG was a great experience and the highlight of the course. I've never worked with a breadboard or Arduino before and now I'm excited to try out more hardware-y / EE type stuff. |
| I think the building of EKG is the best project/module among all, it's a lot of fun building it and it's so cool to collect my own data. Isn't it just so much fun to brag about how you now have an EKG device at your home? |
| my ekg didn't work after ~4 hours of troubleshooting and I'm not sure why :( |
| Measuring my own ECG was a great experience. |
| Building the EKG was incredibly fun (at times frustrating) and truly made me feel like an engineer! |
| BUILDING THE EKG WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY SEMESTER!! |
| Building the arduino EKG was a great way to apply what I had learned and gain hands on experience with EKG technology. |
| The building an EKG lab was my favorite because it was the first time I was able to apply all the electrical engineering knowledge we have been taught at a theoretical level. |
| The best part (of the course) was building an EKG and taking data on myself. Especially in the remote learning environment, this felt much more like an in-person part of the course. |
| The DIY EKG was really cool, and I was so amazed to see my EKG and to have been able to record it myself! It was definitely not too easy troubleshooting, but I got a lot of help, and in the end the time I spent on it was worth it. |
| This was the first bme class where I could see how what we learned in class could be applied in practice out of the classroom |
| Analyzing my own EKG readings that I took w/ my breadboard + arduino setup is one of the coolest things I've ever done. |