Teaching

Introduces the student to the scope of the biomedical engineering profession and its role in society, and develops a sense of professionalism in the student. Provides an overview of biomedical engineering through lectures, presentations by outside speakers, hands-on exercises, and scientific literature analyses. Develops professional communication and teamwork skills.

Basic properties of fluids in motion. Lagrangian and Eulerian viewpoints, material derivative, streamlines. Continuity, energy, angular and linear momentum equations in integral and differential forms. Applications in biofluids and biomedical devices; rheology of biological fluids. Inroduction to CFD. 

This course will present fundamentals and applications of medical devices, BioMEMS, and microfluidic technologies for applications in the broad health and biomedical engineering. It will provide a broad view of the general field and a knowledge of relevant fabrication methods and analysis techniques. Fabrication and analytical techniques, interfacing with biological materials, and techniques for analyte detection will be emphasized. The course will include individual projects and critical paper reviews in which each student will be encouraged to master basic concepts in design and fabrication for devices for specific applications.

This class asks the question "can we apply engineering and design principles to life? Can we modify, build, design and use modified living systems for our own purposes? Indeed, should we? The projects are developed within the context of an international student competition (iGEM).

Run as an Interprofessional Projects course, the class exposes students to learn teamwork, leadership and project management skills, while working in multidisciplinary teams on aspects pertaining to technical, ethical, environmental, economic, public policy, and legal issues.