BME 403 Respiratory Section

Extra Credit Project

Due Wednesday, Oct. 1 by 5:00 pm

Howdy, Gunners!

The goals of this assignment are:

          1.  To get you more points toward your final grade.

          2.  To help you go over certain topics in-depth before the
	      exam, so that you'll ace those
              questions next Friday.

          3.  To help build the class web page so that other BME 403
	      students can learn from your 
              teachings for years to come.

You will be given two basic topics to explicate for the web page.  You DO
NOT need to know HTML to do this assignment.  Please just word-process
your answers in plain text.

For each topic, here's what you should turn in:

          1.  The URL address (e.g., http://this.is.an.example.com) of at
              least 1 web page relevant to your topic.  The more
              relevant, the better (e.g., if your topic is
              "hysteresis," then a page dedicated to hysteresis is better
              than a page that mentions
              it while discussing butterflies).

	  2.  A brief (1 sentence or so) definition of the topic (e.g.,
	      "an infarct is a locus of irreversible 
	      tissue damage resulting from hypoxia.")

	  3.  A longer (around 2 or 3 paragraphs) description of why the
	      topic is important and relevant 
	      to physiology and to this course.

	  4.  Any relevant equations (See the appendix in the back of
	      West).

	  5.  At least one example of the type of problem that might show
	      up on an exam that involve your topic.  Your sample
	      problems must be original, but feel free to use some of
	      the old test questions (e.g., 1995 or 1996) as general
	      templates.  Please also include answers to the 
	      problems you submit.

	  6.  For some of you, your topics may require some form of visual
	      image to illustrate your descriptions.  I leave this to your
	      judgment if you think it is needed or not.

	  7.  Your e-mail address and web page URL, if you got 'em.

Projects will be graded on completeness, clarity, and accuracy.  This
project cannot hurt your grade, but a well-written assignment will help
your grade more than a poorly-written one.

Please turn in your assignment on a Mac or IBM floppy disk, in Microsoft
Word format or in text file (.txt) format.  Alternatively, you may e-mail
your assignment to jmiles@hsc.usc.edu.

If you choose to include images, please either paste the images into the
Word file, or submit them  in JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PICT, or BMP format.
Alternatively, you may simply turn in a paper copy (for images only - not
for text).

I intend to have all of the projects up on the web page by morning on
Oct. 2, in time for you and everyone else to benefit from them before the
exam.  

Good luck!