Basic principles of heat, mass, and fluid transport. Derivation of basic equations, and simplification techniques. Applications to physiological systems, artificial organs, and pharmacokinetics.
Materials used in prosthesis for skin and soft tissue, vascular implant devices, bone repair, and artificial joints. Structure-property relationships for biological tissue.
Design, implementation and analysis of biomedical experiments, including biomechanics, tissue mechanics, fluid transport, cardiovascular hemodynamics and materials for artificial organs and implants.
Design, implementation and analysis of biomedical experiments, including bio-signal data acquisition, processing and analysis, mass transport and medical image processing and interpretation.
Introductory course on cardiovascular and respiratory physiology and associated engineering concepts frequently encountered in the Biomedical Engineering field.
Applications of fluid mechanics principles to human circulatory systems. Unsteady blood flow and wave propagation in elastic tubes. Influence of fluid dynamics on thrombosis and atherosclerosis.
Overview of tissue engineering theory and practice with emphasis on cell behavior and morphology.
Theoretical and experimental models of artificial organs for drug delivery, extracorporeal devices, oxygenators, models of tissue engineered organs, computer simulations of fluid and mass transport.
A short intensive treatment of specialized research topics or techniques in biomedical engineering.
The course is designed to encourage students to become self -conscious learners, exploring not only the what, but also the how and why of knowing. The course focuses on the nature of truth and reality and our role in the world each of us has constructed.
This first in a two-semester course sequence focuses on understanding the start-up culture and in -particular, the basic knowledge and processes needed to identify if a technology/product derived from the university classroom and/or lab can be translated to the commercial marketplace.
This second in a two-semester course sequence will focus on in-depth customer discovery in teams. The first few weeks of the semester will emphasize the “art” of securing interview with, mock interviews carried out in class. Next, the key initiating elements of a business model will be re-introduced in the context of the start-up scenario arising from academia. Teams will subsequently have to carry out several interviews (about a 100) starting with their initial value proposition and customer segment hypotheses.