Senior Design Lab Overview

The Senior Design Lab (SDL) is located in room 4201, Engineering Building III.  This facility is provided for the use of senior design students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME 451 & 452).  Its primary purpose is to provide a place for classes, demonstrations, and most importantly, project work.  While this is not the only place where students may work on their projects, it is a place available to students on a near 24x7 basis for that and other course purposes.

Lab Safety

Safe use of the SDL is required.  In order to help assure safe use, there is a lab safety plan which provides information on addressing emergencies that can arise and how to conduct oneself safely in the lab.

Every person using the SDL must read and understand the lab safety plan.  A singed (electronic) acknowledgement is required, and to meet that end a lab safety certification test is administered.  A portion of class will be devoted to covering lab safety each year prior to the use of tools, insturmentation, and any fabrication activity.

Lab Safety Plan - Read this document (no signatures are required)

Lab Safety Certification Test - Taking this test includes providing your name, which will be considered an electronic signature

SDL General Usage Rules

The SDL is provided for the students in BME 451/2 by the Biomedical Engineering Department.

• Twenty four hour access is provided
  • Student ID cards will be activated for access

• The members of the class and instructors are jointly and severally responsible for the safe, responsible, and secure use of the SDL
  • Do NOT lend your ID for access to anyone outside the class
  • Read, understand, and use the Lab Safety Plan
  • Be attentive to security
    • At ANY time, ANY individual leaving the SDL when no one else remains there is RESPONSIBLE to assure that the lights are down and the doors are closed and locked
    • It is NOT recommended that students work alone in the SDL after normal office hours; at least two persons should be present.  Look out for each other!
• Keep it CLEAN!
  • A certain level of messiness is inherrent in a place where creative people work
  • However, if you get it out, put it up before you leave
  • If you mess it up, clean it up before your leave
  • If you unlock a cabinet, lock it before you leave

SDL Computing Resources

Soley for students in senior design, some computing resources are provided in the SDL.  They are for your use First Come First Served except at times when the lab is in use for a formal lab presentation or for design reviews.

While you may use the computers for any of your course work, the printer is RESERVED ONLY for printing completed deliverables.  The printer must NOT be used for general course purposes (printing off notes and powerpoints and draft deliverables, homework, etc.) whether for 451/2 or any other course.  Campus computing facilities are located elsewhere for those purposes and print quota is your responsibility for those purposes.

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