Spring 2027

Biomedical Engineering Design and Communication

Biomedical Engineering Design and Communication applies technical communication to real-world, client-based projects, covering research methods, documentation, report critique, ethics, diversity, and professional development.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 John Puccinelli3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.91 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 98.8% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=68 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics

  • an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors

  • share research, design ideas, testing plans and results in writing and in presentations to both peers and professionals

  • an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts

  • an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives

  • an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions

  • an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies

  • identify and make skillful use of relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate for the design project

  • make productive use of the writing process, including brainstorming, outlining, drafting, incorporating feedback, and revising, to develop a fledgling idea into a formal paper, presentation, and project

  • make use of expressive conventions and protocols (e.g., organization, content, presentation, formatting) consistent with technical communication

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Communications A andB M E 201

BME 301 used by

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.91 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 98.8% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=68 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JOHN PUCCINELLI is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 980
LAB 302Online (some classroom)0 / 300
LAB 303Online (some classroom)0 / 300
LAB 304Online (some classroom)0 / 300
LAB 301Online (some classroom)0 / 980

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.91 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 98.8% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=68 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Research methods and documentation
  • Report preparation and critique
  • Ethics, diversity, and inclusion
  • Presenting and professional development

Skills

  • Preparing and critiquing technical reports
  • Ethical problem solving in engineering contexts
  • Integrating diversity and inclusion principles
  • Professional development practices
  • Identifying and using high-quality research sources
  • Applying technical communication conventions and formatting

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.08 GPA average error.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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BME 301 · Spring 2027

Biomedical Engineering Design and Communication

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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