NOTE : This is a 10k word project, Student have already done around 3600 words ( File named lit-review-final-draft), you have to continue work in the same file till it reaches 10k words Data files are attached in the reference section References should be in HARVARD style/n DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Faculty of Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering B.Eng. (Hons.) Biomedical Engineering BE406 Biomedical Engineering Project Guidelines 2023-2024 -- University of Strathclyde Engineering Table of Contents .2 2 2 .3 1 INTRODUCTION. 2 PROJECT PURPOSE.. 3 WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE? 4 DOCUMENTING YOUR RESEARCH.. 5 WHAT KINDS OF HELP ARE AVAILABLE? 5.1 5.2 5.1.1 INSTRUCTIONAL HELP Supervisor support.. 5.1.2 BE428/BE403 Professional Studies & Research Methods.. MANAGERIAL HELP. MOTIVATIONAL HELP. 5.3 6 ASSESSMENT: GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 7 ASSESSMENT: THE POSTER. ASSESSMENT: THE FINAL REPORT 8.1 TITLE PAGE. 8.2 DECLARATION 8.3 ABSTRACT 8.4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8.5 TABLE OF CONTENTS. TABLE OF FIGURES 8.6 8.7 INTRODUCTION 8.7.1 Background... 8.7.2 Review of the literature. 8.7.3 Research questions, objectives, hypotheses.. METHODS. 3 3 4 4 .5 .6 7 .7 7 7 7 .7 8 8 9 9 8.8 8.9 RESULTS 8.10 DISCUSSION 8.11 CONCLUSIONS.. 8.12 REFERENCES 8.13 APPENDICES. 9 10 10 8.14 WORKPLAN. 10 9 IMPORTANT DATES. 10 9.1 SUPERVISOR AND TITLE.. 10 9.2 POSTER SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION. 10 9.3 PROJECT SUBMISSION 10 10 PROJECT ASSESSMENT. 10 10.1 POSTER ASSESSMENT. 10 10.1.1 Appearance.. 10 10.1.2 Content 11 10.1.3 Presentation... 11 10.2 REPORT ASSESSMENT 11 IMPORTANT RESOURCES. 11 11.1 ETHICS 11 11.2 11.3 RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT BIOLOGICAL PROTECTION SERVICE 12 12 1 1 INTRODUCTION This booklet is directed at students, and describes arrangements for supervision, submission, and assessment of your individual project, module code BE406. It is very important that you recognise your responsibilities for your project, and understand the role of your supervisor. Your project is worth 40 credits and thus contributes to a third of the Honours year. The name of your supervisor will be known to you by the beginning of the 4th year and it is very important that you establish contact very early so that you can progress in a timely and planned manner. You must manage your time over the session so that you achieve your targets and deadlines. 2 PROJECT PURPOSE This module aims to provide an opportunity for you to experience the challenges and rewards of sustained, independent study in a topic of their own choice in the general field of Biomedical Engineering. It will involve students in a number of processes which include justification of the selected topic; selecting, devising and applying appropriate methods and techniques; anticipating and solving problems which arise; displaying knowledge of background literature; and evaluating and reporting the conclusions of the study. The project will be assessed for the extent and quality of your capabilities of: • justifying the relevance of your research to your specialist area; selecting, devising and applying appropriate approaches, methodology and techniques in pursuit of that study; sustaining independent study; anticipating and solving problems in pursuit of that study; . identifying key issues in that study; describing the process of that study; . displaying knowledge of the background literature; • evaluating the process of the study; • reporting the conclusions of that study. As a member of the academic community, it is important that your work adheres to the highest standards of integrity and academic honesty. Please read carefully the University policy on academic honesty at the web page here, and make sure you understand it. Failure to comply with the policy may result in disciplinary action. Please also beware of sourcing literature or text from generative Al engines, such as ChatGPT. These are software designed to produce text and images that look correct; however, they are not field experts, and very often what they produce is inaccurate or outright wrong. Additionally, they tend to make up non-existent references. Please note that, in some circumstances, the use of generative Al may constitute a form of academic dishonesty. In doubt, please refer to your supervisor for help. 3 WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE? On completion of the module, you are expected to be able to: • • Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principal theories, principles and concepts of their chosen topic field. Show autonomy in planning and executing a significant project of research, investigation or development. 2 • Apply critical analysis, evaluation and interpretation to your own experimental data and/or that of other published work. Effectively communicate with peers, more senior colleagues and specialists in your chosen field 4 DOCUMENTING YOUR RESEARCH It is essential that anything that you write down on the subject of your project, i.e. thoughts, questions, comments on literature, or experimental data, must be retained by the University upon completion of the project. Please agree with your supervisor how to document everything associated with the project, and what needs to be handed in at the end with the final project, such as computer files, spreadsheets, word-processed files, and any original hard data, for example completed questionnaires, tapes of interviews etc. Your supervisor will give you appropriate instructions at the beginning of the project. The retention of the research records will provide evidence of your thought processes, originality, and data collection i.e. evidence that all the work is your own. It will also benefit the University, since it will facilitate any subsequent publication and use of your work, for which you will be duly recognised. If, after your project, you decide to publish or otherwise use your work outside the University of Strathclyde, please contact the Department to discuss how to acknowledge and recognise the University's contribution. 5 WHAT KINDS OF HELP ARE AVAILABLE? There are three main kinds of help: instructional, managerial, and motivational. 5.1 Instructional Help Instructional help is provided by your project supervisor and the BE428 (Professional Studies) and BE423 (Research Methods) classes. 5.1.1 Supervisor support The project will be in the supervisor's area of interest. Your supervisor will provide general support on conducting a research project, and specific support related to the particular topic and investigation. It is up to you to arrange with your supervisor a working arrangement mutually amenable and agreeable. There is no minimum or maximum amount of support which the supervisor is obliged to provide. It may be sensible to arrange a weekly, recurring appointment with your supervisor, and additional support on a more ad hoc basis. General instructional help may have to be provided about information retrieval, writing, and referencing. The extent to which you are familiar with using library resources is variable and some may need a revision of how to find appropriate sources - searching indexes, abstracts, journal indexes, etc. Similarly, your writing skills may be variable and they may need to be refreshed with regard to referencing, avoidance of plagiarism, sourcing, sectioning, paragraphing etc. Some guidance is provided on the course MyPlace page. Help may have to be provided specific to the particular topic. Your supervisor should be able to suggest a few literature sources that can familiarise you with the seminal writings in the relevant topic area and with sources that will enable you to perceive the substance of the major issues relating to the topic. If the hypotheses to be tested have been well constructed, methods and means by which they can be addressed will be apparent. Alternative methods and means will have to be considered. Previous investigations will have been found in the literature relevant to the topic, and you should consider the relative advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and different techniques. It may be useful to refer to a 3 text on general methodology initially and, once a particular methodology has been selected, to texts exclusively about those particular methods. You will be expected to collect, analyse and interpret data. Your supervisor should be able to advise on the most appropriate methods for this, but they will not do it for you. 5.1.2 BE428/BE403 Professional Studies & Research Methods Research design and data analysis should always be considered together, since there is little point in devising a research design where, at the end of the data collection, you find that the hypotheses cannot be tested easily. Deciding the appropriate data analysis, e.g., statistical analysis, at the same time as the research design, will reduce last minute panic, and will enable you to revise and practice the appropriate techniques before they are required. These classes will provide sufficient information regarding how to conduct statistical analysis of some experimental research designs. The course will also introduce elements of planning, risk management and data management. 5.2 Managerial Help Most critically, the project has to be managed with regard to time. Students commonly underestimate the time required for important tasks, including: • obtaining journal articles • obtaining ethics approval preparing and trialling questionnaires, interview schedules etc. learning how to use equipment setting up equipment/calibration designing and building equipment duplicating materials • drafting, redrafting, redrafting • writing arranging appointments with supervisors arranging to interview/do experiments with persons • data analysis/manipulation the time others will take to reply to requests for information, etc. Together with your supervisor, please set up at the beginning of the project, and then regularly update, a workplan for the execution of the whole project, including the planning of the time and resources required for the project. Activity management will constitute a core skill in your future activity as biomedical engineer. Indeed, in your final report you will be required to provide a copy of your workplan, in the form of a PERT diagram showing the tasks of your project and how they depend on each other, a Gantt chart showing the timing of each task, and an estimate of the corresponding costs and resources associated with each task. In these costs, remember to include: • • The consumables necessary for your work. The value of the time used on the equipment necessary for your work. Eventual facility costs (supercomputing, use of University electron microscopes, etc.) Eventual subcontracts, i.e. work commissioned outside the University • Your time. Your supervisor's time. Other collaborators' time. Eventual costs to access paid library resources. • Eventual travel costs./n