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BMD_ENG 305 Biomedical Signals Analysis (1): Introduction to biomedical signals and systems. Time and frequency domain analysis: convolution representation, Fourier Series, Fourier Transforms, Frequency Response, Filtering, Sampling. Prerequisites: Physics 135 or permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 306 Biomedical Systems Analysis (1): Introduction to linear systems analysis. Time and frequency domain techniques for analyzing linear systems, emphasizing their application to biomedical systems. Matlab based problem sets and lab will illustrate topic covered in class. Prerequisites: GEN ENG 205-4 and BMD_ENG 305.
BMD_ENG 310 Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Bioengineering (1): Basic concepts of molecular/cellular structure and function, mechanical influences on biological systems, and commonly used molecular/cellular laboratory techniques. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 314 Models in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1): Mathematical modeling of biochemical and molecular biological problems, e.g., allosteric enzymes, bacterial transduction, X-ray diffraction, and study of DNA fibers.
BMD_ENG 315 Application of Genetic Engineering to Immunochemistry (1): Recent developments in genetic engineering as applied to the rapidly developing field of immunochemistry. Gene splicing, genetic rearrangements, and production of antibodies.
BMD_ENG 317 Biochemical Sensors (1): Theory, design, and applications of chemical sensors used in medical diagnosis and patient monitoring. Both electrochemical and optical sensors will be studied. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 321 Theory and Control of Biological Systems (1): Introduces students to linear control system theory from a biological perspective. Includes mathematical foundations, transfer function, mathematical modeling of physical systems, state-variable analysis, stability. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor or graduate standing.
BMD_ENG 323 Visual Science (1): Organization of mammalian visual system. Optics of the human eye. Visual image representation. Signals in the visual system. Spatial vision. Sampling and interpolation. Visual adaptation. Motion processing. Color vision. Feature extraction. Object perception. Image interpretation.
BMD_ENG 325 Introduction to Medical Imaging (1): Topics include production of X-rays; interaction of X-rays with tissue, television; tomography; computed tomography; and ultrasound.
BMD_ENG 327 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1): Physical principles of nuclear magnetic resonance. Two-dimensional Fourier analysis. Clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 333 Modern Optical Microscopy and Imaging (1): Rigorous introduction to principles, current trends, emerging technologies, and biomedical applications of modern optical microscopy.
BMD_ENG 338 Interaction of Laser Radiation with Tissue (1): Introduction to use of lasers in medicine. Basics of the propagation, scattering, and absorption of light. Modeling of the therapeutic uses of light (e.g., selective coagulation, vaporization, and sensitization). Modeling of the diagnostic uses of light (e.g., fluorescence, back-scattering, transmission). Engineering evaluation of present and future laser-based clinical systems.
BMD_ENG 343 Biomaterials and Medical Devices (1): Structure-property relationships for biomaterials. Metal, ceramic, and polymeric implant materials and their implant applications. Interactions of materials with the body, including corrosion, biomechanics, and biocompatibility.
BMD_ENG 344 Biological Performance of Materials (1): Problems associated with selection and function of biomedical materials. Performance of biomaterials related to surface interaction with surrounding body tissue and fluids. Topics include surface characterization, and physical chemistry of surfaces, solid-liquid interface, protein adsorption, and applications where either material-tissue or material-solution interfaces dominate performance. Prerequisites: BMD_ENG 343 or MAT_SCI 316-1,2.
BMD_ENG 346 Tissue Engineering (1): In vivo molecular, cellular, and organ engineering with an emphasis on the foundations, techniques, and clinical applications of tissue engineering. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 349 Bioregenerative Engineering (1): Fundamentals, mechanisms, and clinical significance of biological regeneration and application of engineering principles to regenerative medicine.
BMD_ENG 350 Heat and Mass Transfer (1): Introductory, basic course covering both fundamental and biomedical applications of diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 365 Human Limbs and Their Artificial Replacements (1): Human movement in the context of biomechanics of skeletal and muscular anatomy, comparative anatomy, muscle physiology, and locomotion theories. Artificial replacement limbs as examples of multidisciplinary design concepts and engineering problems under stringent design constraints.
BMD_ENG 366 Biomechanics of Movement (1): Detailed analysis of human and animal movement. Modeling of muscle and tendon, kinematics of joints, and dynamics of multijoint movement. Applications of the theory to biomechanical problems in sports, rehabilitation, and orthopedics. Current issues in biomechanical research are reviewed. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 371 Mechanics of Biological Tissue (1): Descriptions of stress and strain for small and large deformations. Mechanics of membranes. Nonlinear elastic, viscoelastic, pseudoelastic, and biphasic models of biological tissue. Rheological properties of bone, cartilage, blood vessels, lung, muscle, and cells. Current research topics and critical analysis of selected journal articles.
BMD_ENG 372 Hemodynamics (1): Mechanical aspects of the human circulation system. Blood rheology. Blood vessel rheology. Pressures and flows in the arterial system. Prerequisites: BMD_ENG 402.
BMD_ENG 373 Cardiac Mechanics (1): Mechanical aspects of cardiac function. Physiology and mechanical responses of isolated cardiac muscle fibers. Behavior of an isolated left ventricle. Stress distributions in the ventricular wall. Right heart, lung, and left heart interactions. The circulation system and its interaction with the heart. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 377 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics in Engineering and Biology (1): Fundamental concepts of fluid dynamics are treated with applications to engineering and biological flows. Topics include dimensional analysis, approximation methods, kinematics in Lagrangian and Eulerian reference frames, mass and momentum balance, constitutive equations, kinematic and stress boundary conditions, surface tension phenomena, and inviscid flow.
BMD_ENG 379 Artificial Organs (1): Description of current artificial organs. Review of basic transport process analyses. Engineering analyses and design of specific artificial organs, e.g., kidneys, lungs, heart, pancreas, liver. Comparison of natural/artificial organ function. Prerequisites: BMD_ENG 402 and BMD_ENG 403 or equivalent; and permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 383 Cardiovascular Instrumentation (1): Theory, design, and application of instrumentation used for diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and research investigation of cardiac and cardiovascular diseases. Examples will be taken from current literature. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 384 Biomedical Computing (1): Principles of modern (computer-based) medical instrumentation, including analog-vs-digital design tradeoffs, efficient digital filter designs and algorithms for physiological signal processing, automated event recognition, and classification. Hardware and software design of microcomputer-based medical instruments. Examples of specific applications. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
BMD_ENG 395 Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering (1): Current topics of interest in biomedical engineering. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
BMD_ENG 401 Advanced Systems Physiology (1): Physiology of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Biophysics of the nerve cell from an engineering perspective. General overview and in-depth study of original work.
BMD_ENG 402 Advanced Systems Physiology (1): Physiology of the heart, circulatory system, lungs, and respiration from an engineering perspective. General overview and in-depth study of original work.
BMD_ENG 403 Advanced Systems Physiology (1): Physiology of the renal, digestive, and endocrine systems. Membrane transport, epithelia, and second messenger systems from an engineering perspective. General overview and in-depth study of original work.
BMD_ENG 420 Biostatistics for Experimenters (1): Statistical methods for the design and analysis of experiments including randomization and blocking, Latin squares, factorial designs, sequential designs, analysis of variance, regression analysis, response surfaces, empirical and mechanistic model building.
BMD_ENG 427 Advanced MR Imaging (1): The use and design of MR pulse sequences; emphasis on image contrast mechanisms and some of the more widely used MR acquisition strategies.
BMD_ENG 429 Advanced Physical and Applied Optics (1): Theory and applications of state-of-the-art physical optics: Maxwell's equations, statistical, Gaussian and Fourier optics; light scattering in turbid media, fiber optics, optical imaging and biomedical optics.
BMD_ENG 438-1,2,3 Interdisciplinary Nonlinear Dynamics (1)(1)(1): BMD_ENG 438-1: Example-oriented survey of nonlinear dynamical systems, including chaos, combining numerical, analytical and geometrical approaches to differential equations. BMD_ENG 438-2,3: Interdisciplinary theoretical, computational and experimental projects involving complex systems in science and engineering directed by cross-disciplinary faculty teams.
BMD_ENG 445 Macromolecular Biomaterials (1): Synthesis, properties, and biomedical applications of polymers. Topics include polymerization, structure-property relationships, and uses of polymers in medicine. Key advances from the recent literature will be reviewed to supplement specific lecture topics.
BMD_ENG 450 Biomedical Transport Phenomena (1): Introductory graduate level course including constitutive laws, viscous flow, hemodynamics, porous media, and flow stability. Special topics include dispersion, surface tension, osmosis, and electrokinetics.
BMD_ENG 452 Transport Through Connective Tissues (1): Use of porous media theory to examine principles governing fluid flow and mass transfer in extracellular matrices and the application of these principles to tissue engineering.
BMD_ENG 460 Neural Engineering: Fundamentals (1): Topics in neural engineering: Neural prostheses, brain-machine interface, neural signal analysis, neural tissue engineering, neural stimulation and recording.
BMD_ENG 461 Neural Engineering: Computational Neuromechanics & Neuroethology (1): The brain and the body work together closely in adaptive behavior. Using a well-characterized system as our base, this coupling is examined quantitatively.
BMD_ENG 462 Neural Engineering: Sensory Acquisition through Movement (1): The class involves a neuroethological approach to the nervous system, comparing how information is encoded and processed across sensory modalities, and examining the relation between sensing and movement.
BMD_ENG 463 Neuropathophysiology (1): A quantitative approach to the study and treatment of neurological diseases, including stroke, SCI and visual deficits. Incorporates neuropathophysiology, computer modeling and systems analysis.
BMD_ENG 466 Neuromuscular Biomechanics (1): Interplay between the mechanics of the musculoskeletal system and the neural control of movement. Muscle mechanics, dynamic simulation of movement, control of the limbs, head, and neck. Laboratory demonstrations.
BMD_ENG 467 Biomedical Robotics (1): A perspective on robotics technologies applied to, and inspired by, themes of biomedical research and practice.
BMD_ENG 469 Neural Control and Mechanics of Movement (1): Muscle mechanics and relevant spinal cord neurophysiology as the basis for understanding neural control of movement.
BMD_ENG 475 Cardiovascular Biology and Engineering (1): Molecular basis of cardiovascular development, performance, and pathogenesis; engineering analysis of cardiovascular functions; and fundamentals of cardiovascular engineering and regeneration.
BMD_ENG 495 Special Advanced Topics in Biomedical Engineering (1): Current topics of interest for graduate students. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
BMD_ENG 499 Projects (1-3) : Permission of instructor and department required. May be repeated for credit.
BMD_ENG 512-1,2,3 Graduate Research Seminar in Biomedical Engineering (0)(0)(0): A series of seminars covering current research interests in biomedical engineering. Attendance by first-year Biomedical Engineering graduate students required.
BMD_ENG 590 Research (1-3) : Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
Related Courses
CHEM_ENG 371 Transport Phenomena in Living Systems (1): Application of transport theory, principally diffusion, to movement of molecules in biological systems, including blood, cornea, microcirculation, and lung. Prerequisites: CHEM_ENG 322 and GEN ENG 205-4 or consent of instructor; CHEM_ENG 321 and CHEM_ENG 323 recommended.
CHEM_ENG 438-1,2,3 Interdisciplinary Nonlinear Dynamics (1)(1)(1): CHEM_ENG 438-1: Example-oriented survey of nonlinear dynamical systems, including chaos, combining numerical, analytical and geometrical approaches to differential equations. CHEM_ENG 438-2,3: Interdisciplinary theoretical, computational and experimental projects involving complex systems in science and engineering directed by cross-disciplinary faculty teams.
CSD 308 Auditory Physiology (1): Middle ear and inner ear mechanics and physiology, feedback mechanisms, and nonlinear processes in the peripheral auditory system.
IGP 415 Biological Imaging: Principles and Applications (1): Introduction to modern techniques of image processing.
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