title: Teaching biomedical applications to secondary students.
abstract: Certain aspects of biomedical engineering applications lend themselves well to experimentation that can be done by high school students. This paper describes two experiments done during a six-week summer internship program in which two high school students used electrodes, circuit boards, and computers to mimic a sophisticated heart monitor and also to control a robotic car. Our experience suggests that simple illustrations of complex instrumentation can be effective in introducing adolescents to the biomedical engineering field.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Openshaw
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fleisher
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ljunggren
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000193:education*; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000193:education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans