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This is an upper level project oriented course. The purpose of this course is to teach the students technical aspects of clinical diagnostic devices and methods in a real life setting. The course material will include application of the fundamentals that they had learned in their previous electronics and programming classes to design medical devices and methods. The first part of the course will involve teaching of the foundation for medical devices and methods. After learning the foundation material, the course participants will be divided to groups of 2-3 students each. Each group will need to identify a requirement or problem. This can be done by interacting with medical personnel at the HU Bayview Hospital, JHU School of Medicine or other institutes. After learning the foundations and identifying the requirement or problem, the students will develop a device or find a solution to the problem. The medical device or method developed by the student can be an instrument, software or a combination of instrument and software.