Making Brochures: Presenting Painless Cancer Detection!
Students learn about breast cancer detectionCopyright Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/affiliate/8116044535/in/photostream/
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a Microsoft Excel® graph. In addition, students design a brochure for both patients and doctors advertising a new form of painless yet reliable breast cancer detection. Together, the in-class activity and the take-home assignment function as an assessment of what students have learned throughout the unit.
As part of the engineering design process, when a need in society is established as an engineering challenge, in order for the challenge to be solved, the solution must be well tested, found to be reliable and then presented to the demographic in need, through evidential explanations. For example, in the case of biomedical engineering, a need for painless, reliable breast cancer detection has been presented to researchers at the university level. Following the engineering design process, once a well-tested, consistent and accurate solution has been established in ultrasound technology, it must be presented to radiologists in hopes of implementation on a clinical level. Similarly, in the associated activity, students must demonstrate the accuracy of their solution; while in the lesson's assessment, students must present the solution to doctors and patients with an informative brochure.
After this lesson, students should be able to:
- Present a painless means of detecting breast cancer.
- Explain how knowing the different properties of a material can lead to a useful solution.
- Describe the role of tissue properties in detecting a tumor.
- Produce an image depicting the location of a tumor.