BME 161Introduction to User-Centered Biomedical Design 1

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• The whole course is one big group project so your experience with this course depends soley on your groupmates (it's random though). I got lucky by having a really good group but I know some people that hated their groups. It wasn't a ton of work over the duration of the course but the reports required a decent amount of effort. The lectures are pretty boring though.

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• got slimed by the teaching team multiple times. Fun class and very useful, Prof Hunter was very involved. The workload is fine for most of the term, the last couple weeks is when it picks up, especially if you don't keep up throughout the term

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• I had Hunter for this class. The whole class is a group assignment besides the Individual design assessments. I got lucky with my group so in turn we did really well. I knew some people that got absolutely cooked with their groups though. Marking is very subjective. I knew a lot of groups that got cooked with the TAs. Worst part of this class is that the overall project is boring and useless. You only work on an idea for the entire semester and compared to other engineering 161 classes its much worse.

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• a nice break from math and science and cs-y courses
  no exams or midterms, but there are online LEARN tests that are more like day-long online assignments. they're open-book but don't allow collaboration. additionally, there are group assignments and presentations that include 2 major written reports about your group's design project.
  the design project can be a hit-or-miss depending on your group and the problem space -- it can be very fun and interesting, or very stressful and boring.
  the design project prototyping was actually my favourite part of the course: you actually get to apply problem-solving to your given problem space and come up with a low-fidelity prototype of your solution.…

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• Course content was very straightforward, taught us design methods and important components of design, I found it rather boring, but can see how it could be useful. I personally did skip a few classes, however, I recommend attending them if possible. The prof did not record lectures which meant some of the details she mentions are can not be found after and a lot of the details could be used during the assessments. Whole course worked towards making a project, however, the topic of the project was rather boring. The group project component is completely dependent on how lucky you get with group members. Marking is rather stern and picky. They expect high quality work in order to achieve a…

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