BME 3300: Biomedical Engineering Design: Home

This guide is designed to help you with various aspects of the research process for BME 3300: Biomedical Engineering Design. Use the tabs on the left to navigate through this guide. 

1. What are some of the most innovative ideas or products related to your challenge?
2. What is the market for new products in this area? 
3. What are the characteristics of the populations in your market?
4. Are there other products on the market already?  Are there similar patents?
5. What technology is needed to construct it?
6. What standards must be used to build it?
7. Are there government regulations that guide its production and use?

Diverse information sources and perspectives will help you to better understand the problem you are trying to address. Clear understanding of your problem is critical to developing a feasible solution.

A few key sources to begin are:

1. WPI's list of databases that include significant research and information related to biomedical engineering: http://libguides.wpi.edu/bme
2. IEEE Style Guide: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/style_references_manual.pdf