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2.00 Credits
Staff. This course introduces the tools, techniques, and rules necessary to function professionally as a researcher or engineer. Topics include economic analysis, ethics, professional communication including writing and oral presentation, research techniques including literature searching, citation, and the structure of a scientific paper. An integral part of the course is a year-long research or design project under the direction of a faculty member or other scientist or professional. This culminates in a Senior Thesis and a presentation in Departmental Seminar.
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2.00 Credits
Dr. Anderson. Pre-requisite: Approval of instructor; admission to 5th year BS-MS program. In order to meet undergraduate degree requirements, this course will allow fifth year students to more effectively concentrate on their research projects in lieu of completing the course requirements of BMEN 491. The grade for BMEN 493 will be listed as In Progress (IP) until such time as the masters thesis is completed, whereupon the student’s advisor and thesis committee will assign a grade necessary to fulfill bachelors degree requirements.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Rice. Pre-requisite: BMEN 2730 or equivalent. This course gives students the skills to interpret or predict the behavior of physiologic systems in order to study normal and pathologic phenomena. The body uses many feedback control mechanisms to maintain homeostasis, the keeping of a constant interior environment (eg. pH, temperature, blood pressure, balance, bone stress, muscle length). Transfer functions characterize organ physiology. These functions are the building blocks of an organ system model. By studying these models, complex behavior can often be easily interpreted. Further, these models often suggest ways to make noninvasive physiologic measurements. Applications include: vicious cycles, such as hyperventilation syndrome, and how to break them; hierarchical, parallel, and other redundant systems; causes of instabilities such as Cheyne-Stokes breathing; open and closed loop control of anesthesia and artificial organs. Reference will be made to several common mechanisms such as the thermostat. Lecture demonstrations include pulmonary and cardiovascular measurement. A term paper on a topic of the student’s choice is required.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Rice. Pre-requisite: BMEN 3060, MATH 2210. Introduction to sounds in the physiological and medical arena. Topics include: physics of sound propagation, sources and mechanisms of cardiac and respiratory sound production, sound transmission, auscultation and stethoscope evaluation, psychoacoustics and auditory perception, speech production and structure of the speech signal, medical ultrasound applications and safety.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: BMEN 3610. An engineering perspective on the electrical behavior of the heart. Topics include the normal electrical excitation of the heart, membrane ionic channels, contraction, the basics of electrocardiography, arrhythmias and mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis, sudden cardiac death, and the electrical therapies for disturbances in cardiac rhythm. Virtual labs are also included to aid the learning process.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Walker. Pre-requisite: BMEN 2730. Implantable and external electrical stimulation devices and technology for the control of pain, functional electrical stimulation, and other neural prostheses are discussed. Additionally, the anatomy of the central nervous system is taught through the use of a programmed learning sequence.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Walker. Pre-requisite: BMEN 2730. Application of medical instrumentation in clinical diagnosis including EKG, EMG, multimodality evoked potentials, stress tests, ultrasound, and computed tomography. The lectures cover the system design of the instruments and review the conditions they are designed to detect. The lab consists of an applications demonstration in one of the local medical facilities.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Moore. Pre-requisite: BMEN 3230/7230. Functional biomaterials are non-viable materials that have been designed or modified in order to elicit specific biological responses when interacting with human fluids, cells, tissues, or organs. This course will focus on chemical principles utilized in endowing polymeric materials with biological functionality for medical applications. Following a brief review of polymer properties with a focus on hydrogels, topics addressed will include attachment of proteins to materials, induction of cell-binding and differentiation, responsive polymers, and spatial and temporal control of material properties for biological signaling. Unifying concepts will be introduced by directed reading and discussion of landmark papers in the biomaterials literature. Supplemental laboratory exercises will be utilized to illustrate selected concepts and introduce experimental procedures.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Anderson. Pre-requisite: ENGP 2430, BMEN 3300, BMEN 3400. The course begins with a presentation of the kinematics of continuous media and elementary tensor manipulations. We will then cover the conservation principles of mass, linear momentum, angular momentum, and energy. Additional topics will include the formulation of constitutive laws, continuum models in electrodynamics, and simple descriptions of piezoelectric materials. These concepts will be applied to fundamental problems in bio-solid mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics, and bio-electromagnetism.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Gaver, Dr. Khismatullin. Pre-requisite: ENGP 2430, BMEN 3400. This course will cover general intermediate/advanced fluid mechanics, and will provide a foundation from which to base one’s studies of biofluid mechanics. Issues pertinent to the study of biofluid mechanics will be emphasized. Topics to be studied include kinematic principles, the Navier-Stokes equations, boundary conditions for viscous flows, basic solutions to steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations, turbulence, analysis of the vorticity equation, and interfacial phenomena. Whenever possible, problems of a biological nature will be used as examples.
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