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601 Foundations of Biomedical Engineering
Analyses
(3-0). Credit 3. Analysis of biomedical engineering processes
involving interactions between biological tissues and electromagnetic waves
using methodologies from developed physical principles; applications include
electric and magnetic fields in biological tissues, and electromagnetic wave
treatment of fundamental light propagation properties in biological tissues
such as transmission, reflection, polarization, interference and diffraction.
Prerequisite: MATH 308.
602 Instrumentation and Measurement of Biomedical
Systems
(3-3). Credit 4. Information measurement from biomedical systems;
interface matching; transducers commonly used in biomedical engineering as the
interface between biomedical signals and instrumentation systems.
Prerequisites: BMEN 309 and 401 or equivalent.
603 Information Processing in Biomedical
Engineering
(3-3) Credit 4. Methods for evaluating alternative approaches in
signal processing systems for biomedical applications; provides familiarity
with the variety of existing software and hardware systems.
Prerequisite: BMEN 309.
605 Virtual Instrumentation Design for Medical
Systems
(2-3) Credit 3. Design of medical systems using graphics programming
language of LabVIEW including the designing and programming of three virtual
systems: cardiac monitor, electromyogram system for biomechanics, and sleep
stage analyses for electroencephalograms.
Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
607 Clinical Engineering
(3-0) Credit 3. Responsibilities, functions and duties of the
hospital based biomedical engineer, including program organization,
management, medical equipment acquisition and use, preventive maintenance and
repair and hospital safety.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
608 Optical Diagnostic and Monitoring Principles
(3-0) Credit 3. Engineering design principles of optically based
monitoring and diagnostic modalities; emphasis on generating quantitative
descriptions of biochemical and biophysical interactions of optic and fiber
optic systems as applied to medical diagnostics and sensing.
Prerequisites: MATH 308; PHYS 208.
609 Optical Therapeutic and Interventional
Principles
(3-0) Credit 3. Study of optical and thermal processes of laser
interaction with biological tissue; issues and objectives in therapeutic,
surgical, and diagnostic applications; basic engineering principles used in
developing therapeutic with a focus on the use of lasers and optical
technology.
Prerequisite: MATH 308; PHYS 208.
610 Medical Ultrasonics
(3-0) Credit 3. Physical principles of diagnostic and therapeutic
ultrasound; clinical equipment; diagnostic and therapeutic protocol;
biological effects of ultrasound.
Prerequisites: PHYS 219 or equivalent, 3 hours in human physiology.
611 Biomedical Imaging Systems
(3-0) Credit 3. The physics behind the major medical imaging systems
including CT, MRT, Ultrasound, and X-ray will be introduced and described; a
linear systems approach will be used along with basic diffraction theory.
Prerequisite: BMEN 309; MATH 308.
612 Experimentation
(2-3) Credit 3. General concepts forming the basis of the scientific
method and design of experiments; analytical instrumentation and measurement
methods useful in biomedical research; criteria for the selection, care, and
use of experimental animals and human subjects in biomedical research.
Prerequisite: 3 hours in physiology.
614 Modeling of Biomedical Systems
(3-0) Credit 3. Principles, objectives and approaches to describing
physiological phenomena with mathematical models with emphasis on mammalian
systems.
Prerequisites: 3 hours in physiology, 3 hours in differential equations.
619 Engineering Analyses of Artificial Internal
Organs
(3-0) Credit 3. Design, development and evaluation of artificial
internal organs.
Prerequisites: BMEN 452; VTPP 335 or equivalent.
620 Bio-Optical Imaging
(3-0) Credit 3. Optical imaging techniques for detection of
structures and functions of biological tissues; basic physics and engineering
of each imaging technique.
Prerequisites: BMEN 601; MATH 308.
621 Microscale Bio-Optical Applications
(3-0) Credit 3. Introduction to the biomedical
application of lasers to manipulation, detection, and visualization on (sub)cellular
length scales, with emphasis on governing principles on which applications are
founded; applications from recent literature (state-of-the-art) presented.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of
instructor
624 Biomedical Sensing and Imaging at the Nanoscale
(3-0) Credit 3. This course serves as an introduction to nanotechnology with an emphasis on biomedical
techniques and medical applications. The material covered ranges from the basic physics of contrast agents to the engineering of current sensing and imaging systems applied at the nanoscale.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification, PHYS 208, MATH 308.
630 Global Medical Device Regulation
(3-0) Credit 3. Overview of applicable U.S. and international
regulations and regulatory processes for the design, approval and marketing of
medical devices.
Prerequisites: BMEN 310 and graduate classification.
631 Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems
(3-0) Credit 3. Introduces equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and applies them to understand various bimolecular systems; including ensemble theroy, reaction kinetics, nonlinear dynamics, and stochastic processes; with applied examples such as enzyme-ligand binding kinetics, conformational dynamic of proteins and nucleic acids, population dynamics, and noise in biolocigal signals.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification, BMEN 240, PHYS 208, MATH 308.
632 Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics
(3-0) Credit 3. Introduces Biomolecules and their assemblies that play structural and dymanical roles in subcellular to cellular level mechanics, with emphasis on quantitative/theoretical descriptions, and discussions of the relevant experiment approaches to probe these nano to micro-scale phemomena; including topics in (1) self-assembly of cytoskeleton and biomembranes, (2) molecular motors, (3) cell motility, and mechanotransduction.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification, BMEN 240, MATH 308.
635 Biomaterials Compatibility
(3-0). Credit 3. Relevance of mechanical and physical properties to
implant selection and design; effect of the body environment on metallic,
ceramic, and plastic materials; tissue engineering; rejection mechanisms used
by the body to maintain homeostasis regulatory requirements.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
638 Control Mechanisms in Living Systems
(3-0) Credit 3. Application of control theory to the dynamic
characteristics of electro-physiological and biochemical processes and to the
natural and artificial maintenance of homeostasis in living systems.
Prerequisites: BMEN 401; MATH 308; 3 hours of physiology.
640 Design of Medical Devices
(3-0) Credit 3. Overview of the multiple issues in managing the
design of a marketable medical device, including the design process from
clinical problem definition through prototype and clinical testing to market
readiness; includes FDA pre-and post-market regulation, human factors and
system safety considerations, and medical product liability.
Prerequisite: Graduate classification in engineering.
650 Biomedical Optics Laboratory
(2-3) Credit 3. Biomedical optics technology; basic engineering
principles used in developing therapeutic and diagnostic devices; a series of
hands-on labs will be performed including optical monitoring, diagnostic and
therapeutic experiments.
Prerequisites: MATH 308; PHYS 208.
660 Vascular Mechanics
(3-0) Credit 3. Application of continuum mechanics to the study of
the heart arteries; on the measurement and quantification of material
properties, and the calculation of vascular stresses; analysis of several
cardiovascular devices to reinforce the need for careful analysis in the
device design.
Prerequisites: BMEN 302 and 421 or equivalent; graduate classification.
661 Cardiac Mechanics
(3-0) Credit 3. Application of continuum mechanics and computational
solid mechanics to the study of the mammalian heart; utilization of continuum
mechanics and finite element analysis in solving nonlinear boundary value
problems in biomechanics.
662 Vascular Fluid Mechanics
(3-0) Credit 3. Bio-fluid mechanics of the human
circulatory system including examination of disease development and medical
treatments.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification and BMEN 240 or
equivalent.
663 Soft Tissue Mechanics and Finite Element Methods
(3-0) Credit 3. Application of continuum mechanics and
finite elements methods to the study of the mechanical behavior of soft
tissues and associative applications in biomedicine.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification and BMEN 240 or
equivalent.
668 Biothermomechanics
(3-0) Credit 3. Application on continuum thermomechanics to quantify soft tissue behavior in response to combined
thermal and mechanical loads including thermoelasticity and thermal damage.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, 341, and graduate
classification.
669 Entrepreneurial Issues in Biomedical
Engineering
(3-0) Credit 3. Description and analysis of
issues associated with initiating business ventures to transfer biomedical
technologies into the health care sector, including intellectual property
protection, seed funding alternatives, and business strategies relevant to the
biomedical engineering technology area; and utilizing recent case studies of
previous ventures.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification.
671 Introduction to Modeling of Biological
Systems with Mathematics
(3-0) Credit 3. Construction and solution of mathematical and
simulation models using mathematical programming, numerical methods packages,
concepts of parallel and rule-based programming, incorporating pattern
matching techniques, visualization of results with graphical packages;
examples from various fields of study such a fractal geometry, cellular
automata, chaoe, matrix population models and ecosystems modeling.
Prerequisites: BMEN 601 or equivalent; one computer course.
673 Radiation Biology
(3-0) Credit 3. The response of biological systems to ionizing
radiation at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels; effects of
different dose levels with emphasis on the underlying mechanisms relevant to
long-term health effects at low doses.
Prerequisite: NUEN 409 or graduate classification. Cross-listed with NUEN 673.
674 Communications in Biomedical Engineering
(2-0) Credit 2. General concepts for
communicating the results of biomedical research including written papers,
conference proceedings, proposals and grants, as well as oral presentations
and basic ethics.
Prerequisite: Graduate classification or
approval of instructor.
675 Biomedical Case Studies
(1-0) Credit 1. Introduction to the engineering
design process for solving biomedical problems by using the case study method
in biomedical instrument design.
rerequisite: Graduate classification or approval
or instructor.
680 Biomedical Engineering of Tissues
(3-0) Credit 3. Introduction to aspects of
tissue engineering with an emphasis placed on tissue level topics including
tissue organization and biological processes, with insights from recent
literature (state-of-the-art).
Prerequisites: Graduate classification or
approval of instructor.
681 Seminar
(1-0) Credit 1. Designed to permit student to broaden capability,
performance and perspective in biomedical engineering via his or her own
formal presentation and by presentations by other professionals.
684 Professional Internship
Credit 1 or more each semester. Training under the supervision of
practicing engineers in settings appropriate to the student's professional
objectives.
Prerequisites: Approval of chair of student's advisory committee and chair of
biomedical engineering department.
685 Directed Studies
Credit 1 to 12 each semester. Allow students the opportunity to
undertake and complete for credit limited investigations not included within
thesis or dissertation research and not covered by other courses.
Prerequisite: Approval of department head.
689 Special Topics in . . .
Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of biomedical
engineering. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
691 Research
Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation.
