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Credit: 1 course unit
Elective course
Catalog
Description:
This course discusses the design, development, and evaluation of
medical devices. Emphasis is placed on the process of matching
technological opportunities to medical needs. Medical devices are
analyzed from three viewpoints: technology driven applications, competing
technologies, and disease-related technology clusters.
Prerequisites:
Junior or Senior standing in Bioengineering, or permission of the
instructor
Textbook(s) and/or Other
Required Materials:
Ulrich, Karl and Eppinger, Steven.
(2000). Product Design and Development, 2nd Edition.
McGraw-Hill.
Course Objectives
and Relationship to Program Education Objectives:
The goal of this course is to develop the thinking and research
tools that will enable students to understand medical devices as products:
commercially available technological solutions to medical needs. This
total understanding is based upon the coordinated separate understandings
of: (1) underlying medical science and clinical practice; (2) underlying
technologies and the potential choices between available technologies;
(3) engineering design; and (4) technological and business directions of
companies.
Topics Covered:
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Concepts
of medical device, medical technology, and medical product
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Classifications
of medical devices
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Reverse
engineering methods
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Product
portfolios and architectures
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Specifications
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Constraints
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Functional
decomposition
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Function-Structure
relationships
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Selection,
evaluation, and comparison methods
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Safety,
reliability measures
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Clinical
evaluation methods
Class/Laboratory
Schedule:
Lecture: 3 hr/week
Contribution
towards Professional Component:
25% Engineering science
75% Engineering design
Contribution
towards Program Outcomes:
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Multidisciplinary
Ability
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Med.
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Problem Solving
Approach
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Med
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Problem Solving
Methods
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Med
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Experimentation
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Med
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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:
Daniel Bogen
June, 2003
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