(Last Update: 2021 March 16 10:35 PDT )

Group Tutorials are a way of providing courses that are not listed in the general catalog. They are used to prototype new courses and to provide one-time-only courses,

Index of class offerings


Spring 2021: Sophomore rotations

Class web pages:
http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/bme94f/s21
Instructor:
Kevin Karplus
Content:
This course is a prototype run of a new 2-unit course to help second-year students find research labs that they might join.

Target audience:
The primary audience are second-year BMEB majors and proposed majors.
Prerequisites:
This is intended for second-year students, and there are no prerequisites.
Requirements satistfied:
This course does not satisfy any graduation requirements, nor is it a prerequisite for any further courses. Take this course because you want to do it, not because you have to.

Winter 2014: BMES freshman design seminar

Class web pages:
http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/bme94f/w14
Instructor:
Kevin Karplus
Content:
This course is a prototype run of a new 2-unit freshman design seminar. Students will be helping design the course, as well whatever projects we take on. The current goal is to have small teams (2–4 students) design low-cost lab equipment suitable for hobbyists or home school, middle school, or high school science labs.

A major goal of the course is to get students thinking like engineers: asking questions like "How can we make something that does this?", "What are the constraints on the design?", "Will this part do what we want?", "How much would it cost to do that?"

Target audience:
The primary audience are freshman bioengineering majors and premajors.
Prerequisites:
This is intended for first-year students, so there are no prerequisites. Students should come in with an interest in designing and constructing things. Prior experience with hand tools, soldering, computer programming, and so forth are all valuable, but no specific skills are required to join the class.
Requirements satistfied:
This course does not satisfy any graduation requirements, nor is it a prerequisite for any further courses. Take this course because you want to do it, not because you have to.
Blog about the course:
Table of contents for blog posts about the design and implementation of this course.


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