Senior Project Options

BMED students have multiple options for their 4000-level upper division design coursework.  Each of these sequences of courses also includes the planning, execution, and documentation of your senior project as part of a team of students.  Each sequence covers similar engineering design core content with varied scope and emphasis as described below.  Duration of the projects, terms offered, and total units obtained are different for each sequence and should be taken into account when planning your schedule and assessing your progress to degree completion. 

Team based senior design project open to BMED majors only. Engineering design methodology, design process, project planning, decision making, modeling, construction, and testing of an open-ended design project. Preparation of formal engineering reports. Statistical analysis. Governmental regulations. Bioethical issues.

  • Duration: 2 sequential semesters
  • Offered: 2 cohorts per year (F/Sp and Sp/F)
  • Courses: BMED 4465 Biomedical Engineering Design I, BMED 4466 Biomedical Engineering Design II: Senior Project
  • Units: 2 units per semester
  • 4 units total

Team based interdisciplinary senior design project with students from multiple engineering majors. Development of sponsor’s needs and generation of design solutions. Project management, cost analysis, intellectual property, test plans, impact analysis on society, and ethical considerations. Activities focus on detail design, analysis and material procurement. Design verified through prototyping and testing.

  • Duration: 2 sequential semesters
  • Offered: 1 sequence per year (F/Sp)
  • Courses: ENGR 4459 Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project I, ENGR 4460 Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project II, ENGR 4461 Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project III, BMED 4000 Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates
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Team based interdisciplinary senior design project with engineering and business students. Entrepreneurial process through design of a product or service, using customer development and agile engineering.

  • Duration: 2 sequential semesters
  • Offered: 1 sequence per year (F/Sp)
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Please contact the current instructor of a sequence for more information about each sequence.  Current instructors can be found on PASS.  View past Senior Project reports on Digital Commons @ Cal Poly