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The Texas A&M Department of Biomedical Engineering offers a wide range of courses to give all undergraduates the opportunity to discover what aspect of their career choice most interests them. Roman numerals to the right of the credit indicate the semester in which it is usually offered – “I” for fall, “II” for spring, and “S” for summer. Here is a brief description of all the undergraduate level courses the program has to offer:
Introduction into the mechanics of deformable media important in biomechanics, including biomaterials and biological tissues with an emphasis in mechanobiology and the formation of biological problems within the context of 1) kinematics including displacements, rotation strains, 2) the concept of stress, 3) equilibrium, 4) constitutive relations, and 5) boundary conditions.
Prerequisite: BMEN 241
Foundations of mechanics in addressing biomedical problems, including introductions to mechanobiology and mechanically and thermally based clinical treatments emphasizing the development of associated mathematical preliminaries and basic concepts of thermomechanics, including (1) vectors, tensors, and matrices, (2) kinematics including displacement, rotation, acceleration, deformation gradients, and velocity gradients, (3) concepts of stress and heat-flux, (4) equations of motion, and (5) constitutive relations.
Prerequisite: Admitted to major degree sequence in biomedical engineering.
Applies engineering methods to understand biological functions from the molecular/cellular level.
Prerequisite: Admitted to major degree sequence and CHEM 101/107.
Permits students to undertake special projects in biomedical engineering at an earlier point in their studies than required for BMEN 485.
Prerequisite: Approval of program chair.
(1-4) Selected topics in an identified area of biomedical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
Research conducted under the direction of faculty member in biomedical engineering. May be repeated 2 times for credit.
Prerequisite: Freshman or sophomore classification and approval of instructor.
Introduction to biomedical instrumentation design; hands on acquisition of biomedical signals; design, building and testing of bioinstrumentation circuits including analog signal amplifiers and analog filter circuits.
Prerequisites: ELEN 214, VTPP 334 and 335; junior or senior classification.
Introduction into experimental methods useful in biomedical engineering; includes the role of empiricism in biomedical research and development; the differences between observation and experimentation; and how to acquire, reduce interpret, and present data.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240 and BMEN 341.
Equipment control concepts and techniques and their application in hospitals and in the medical profession; device evaluation specifications; preventative maintenance and service; calibration, regulation and medical product liability.
Prerequisite: BMEN 321.
Introduction to biomedical signals; basic circuit analysis for biomedical signals; design of bioamplifier circuits; characteristics of linear and nonlinear circuit elements; design of basic electronic circuits, principles and practice of bioelectronic measurements.
Prerequisites: ELEN 214, VTPP 334 and 335; junior or senior classification.
Design and application of analog and digital signal analysis in biomedical engineering; characteristics of biomedical signals; design considerations for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog circuitry; biosignal transformation methods; analog and digital filter design for biomedical signals.
Prerequisites: BMEN 321, VTPP 334 and 335; junior or senior classification
Equations and numerical analysis techniques important to the description of living systems and medical devices; solution alternatives and limitations.
Prerequisite: MATH 308.
Introduction into the mechanics of fluids in biomechanics, including blood, synovial fluid and physiological solutions, with an emphasis on the importance of mechanobiology and the formation of biological problems within the context of 1) kinematics, 2) the concept of stress, 3) linear momentum balance, 4) constitutive relations, and 5) boundary conditions.
Prerequisite: BMEN 240; junior or senior classification.
Selection and use of materials in implantable and tissue contacting medical devices; mass transport in medical devices; regulation and testing of medical devices.
Prerequisites: VTPP 335 and BMEN 341; junior or senior classification.
Describes the properties of natural and man-made materials commonly encountered in biomedicine and biomedical engineering; it includes an integrated approach in the presentation of material structures, characteristics, and properties; the basics of material structures, including crystalline and chemical structure, and microstructure; and characteristics of the materials will be developed from the microscopic origins.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, MATH 308, PHYS 208 and junior or senior classification.
Techniques for generating quantitative mathematical models of physiological control systems and devices; the behavior of physiological control systems using both time and frequency domain methods.
Prerequisites: BMEN 321; MATH 308; VTPP 334 and 335.
Design of medical systems using graphics programming language of LabVIEW including the designing and programming of three virtual systems as follows: cardiac monitor, electromyogram system for biomechanics, and sleep stage analyses from electroencephalograms.
Prerequisites: BMEN 321 and 322.
Training in clinical engineering through hospital-based experience in medical systems technical knowledge, clinical engineering management, technology assessment, and hospital management.
Prerequisite: BMEN 310.
The principles of the major imaging modalities including x-ray radiology, x-ray computed tomography (CT), ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging; including a brief discussion on the other emerging imaging technologies such as nuclear imaging (PET and SPECT).
Prerequisite: MATH 253; junior or senior classification.
Biofluid dynamics; derivation of mass and momentum equations; analysis of fluid motion in biomedical engineering systems; dimensional analysis; application of turbulence and boundary layer analysis in biomedical engineering.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240; MATH 308; VTPP 334 and 335.
Current practice of material selection and design of artificial internal organs including orthopedic, cardiovascular and other implant applications. Regulations, standards and testing.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240; VTPP 334 and 335.
Introduction to biomedical applications of lasers to manipulation, detection, and visualization on (sub-) cellular length scales, with emphasis placed on the governing principles on which applications are founded; applications from recent literature (state-of-the-art) will be presented.
Prerequisites: BMEN 306, BMEN 322; junior or senior classification.
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: Senior classification or instructor approval.
Introduction to the regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pertaining to testing and marketing medical devices.
Prerequisites: BMEN 310; junior or senior classification.
Introduces equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and applies them to understand various biomolecular systems; including ensemble theory, 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 biological signals.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, PHYS 208, MATH 308.
Introduces biomolecules and their assemblies that play structural and dynamical roles in sub-cellular to cellular level mechanics, with emphasis on quantitative/theoretical descriptions, and discussions of the relevant experiment approaches to probe these nano- to micro-scale phenomena; including topics in (1) self assembly of cytoskeleton and biomembranes, (2) molecular motors, (3) cell motility, and (4) mechanotransduction.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, MATH 304; junior or senior classification.
Overview of the multiple issues in designing a marketable medical device, including the design process from clinical problem definition through prototype and clinical testing to market readiness; includes FDA regulation, human factors and system safety considerations and medical product liability.
Prerequisites: BMEN 422; senior classification in engineering.
Examines process through which clinically defined problems are addressed from the perspective of biomedical engineering through the use of case studies; includes issues of technology transfer and clinical evaluation.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, 305 and 342; junior or senior classification.
Transport phenomena associated with physiological systems and their interaction with medical devices; exchange processes in artificial life support systems and diagnostic equipment.
Prerequisites: BMEN 341; MATH 308; VTPP 334 and 335.
Group or team biomedical engineering analysis and design project involving statement, alternative approaches for solution, specific system analysis and design.
Prerequisites: BMEN 321, 322 and 342; junior or senior classification.
Continuation of BMEN 453.
Prerequisites: BMEN 321, 322, 342 and 453; junior or senior classification.
Application of continuum mechanics to the study of the heart arteries; emphasis 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 240 and 421.
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 non-linear boundary value problems in biomechanics.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240, 341, and 421; approval of instructor.
Bio-fluid mechanics of the human circulatory system including examination of disease development and medical treatments.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240 or equivalent; junior or senior classification.
Application of continuum mechanics and finite element methods to the study of the mechanical behavior of soft tissues and associative applications in biomedicine.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240 or equivalent; junior or senior classification.
Introduction to a continuum thermomechanics approach to quantifying soft tissue behavior in response to combined thermal and mechanical loads including thermoelasticity and thermal damage.
Prerequisites: BMEN 240 and 341; junior or senior classification.
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: Admitted to major degree sequence (upper-level) in biomedical engineering.
Fundamentals of biomedical optics; basic engineering principles used in optical therapeutics, optical diagnostics and optical biosensing.
Prerequisites: MATH 308; PHYS 208. Cross-listed with CHEN 470
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: Admitted to major degree sequence (upper-level) in biomedical engineering.
Preparation, properties, and biomedical applications of polymers including: polymerization; structure-property relationships; molecular weight and measurement; morphology; thermal transitions; network formation; mechanical behavior; polymeric surface modification; polymer biocompatibility and bioadhesion; polymers in medicine, dentistry, and surgery; polymers for drug delivery; polymeric hydrogels; and biodegradable polymers.
Prerequisites: BMEN 342 or approval of instructor; junior or senior classification.
Permits students to undertake special projects in biomedical engineering.
Prerequisite: Approval of program chair.
New or unique areas of biomedical engineering which are of interest to biomedical engineering and other undergraduate students.
Research conducted under the direction of faculty member in biomedical engineering. May be repeated 2 times for credit. Registration in multiple sections of this course is possible within a given semester provided that the per semester credit hour limit is not exceeded.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification and approval of instructor.
