Software plays a critical role in almost all medical devices, spanning device control, feedback and algorithmic processing. This course focuses on software design skills that are ubiquitous in the medical device industry, including software version control, unit testing, fault tolerance, continuous integration testing and documentation. Experience will be gained in both dynamically- (Python) and statically-typed (C/C++) languages.
The course will be structured around a project to build an Internet-connected medical device that measures and processes a biosignal, sends it to a web server, and makes those data accessible to a web client / mobile application. This project will be broken into several smaller projects to develop software design fundamentals. All project-related work will be done in groups of 3 students.
Introductory Programming Class