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Credit: 1 course unit
Required course (freshman year)
Catalog
Description:
Covers, at an introductory level, a variety of topics such as
cellular and molecular therapies, novel medical devices to diagnose and
treat disease, engineering and computational models of the body,
genomics, biomechanics, cell signaling, and tissue engineering.
Students will do hands-on experiments in the Bioengineering Undergraduate
Lab, learn about statistics and experimental design, government
regulations, ethical and other professional considerations that affect
bioengineering research and development. As an exercise, students will be
asked to offer new bioengineering ideas and interventions, discuss and
present them by applying the course and lab material.
Prerequisites: None
Textbook(s) and/or
other Required Material:
Materials on Blackboard site
Course Objectives:
This course introduces the students to basic concepts in
bioengineering and important professional, societal, entrepreneurial and
career related issues in the field. Students completing this course
should be able to:
- Understand the scope of Bioengineering
- Define a clear motivation for a new biomedical therapy project
- Develop a working relationship with a team
- Learn and integrate biomedical and engineering technical material in
new areas
- Be able to apply newly acquired
engineering and scientific methods including elementary statistics
- Design and conduct hypothesis-driven experiments
- Understand ethical issues in engineering and biomedical research
- Present design options and experimental data in a poster format
- Write a professional final report, which
is written correctly for a defined format
Topics Covered:
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Introduction,
Term Projects
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What do Bioengineers do?
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Fields in Bioengineering
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Engineering design process and scientific method
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Statistics and error analysis
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Experimental design
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Product testing and ethics of human subjects research
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Biopac sensors - what do they do and how do we use them?
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Report
Writing and Poster Presentations
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Career
Paths in Bioengineering
Class Schedule:
Lecture: 3 hr/week
Recitation/TA Meetings: 1.5 hrs/wk
Lab: Four 1.5 hr sessions/semester
Contribution of
Course to Meeting the Professional Component:
100% Engineering science
Contribution
towards Program Outcomes:
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Multidisciplinary
Ability
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High
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Problem Solving Approach
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Low
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Problem Solving
Methods
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High
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Experimentation
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High
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Design
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High
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Professional
Orientation
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High
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Person(s) Preparing
Description and Date:
Susan Margulies
July 2007
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