Biomedical engineering e-book generation

Abstract

A 164 page e-book completely self-produced by the author on a desktop computer, Medical Imaging Equipment Theory, presented as a permanently accessible PDF file, is described. This book is written at the junior/senior level in biomedical engineering. An e-mail list of roughly 2000 addresses was generated from the membership files of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), and web sites at engineering colleges that feature biomedical programs. As a result the e-book has been requested by over 200 professors and researchers world wide, some of whom are helping to evaluate the pedagogical theory implied. It has been formally used and given free to students in several colleges over the past four consecutive semesters. A survey of teachers and students gives support to the idea that such a text can be self-published, and importantly that the e-book without paper print is adequate for classroom use, and that a black and white text can be cost-effectively printed ad hoc if the student desires. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2010.