Introduces design methodologies for biomedical engineers in a lecture format with studio-style integrated project-based learning. Integrates crucial design skills, including user-based design principles and engineering judgment, required for successful design in healthcare. Covers scientific (e.g., anatomy), engineering fundaments (e.g., physics), and hands-on prototyping skills (e.g., 3D printing, soldering, electronics prototyping, coding, etc.) relevant to the semester project. Design experiences emphasize critical thinking, interdisciplinary teamwork, technical communication, and engineering ethics. Prerequisites: Biomedical Engineering major.
Studio-style course that fuses lecture with project-based learning and laboratory exercises. Covers force and torque vectors, systems in equilibrium, physical properties of human body segments and biological systems, kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies, stress and strain of solid materials, circuits and instrumentation. Prerequisites: C- or better in MATH 1248, and PHYS 1500.
Introduction to verification/validation testing. Case studies of BME Capstone Design II teams. Prerequisite: BME 2600.
A course which is tailored to fit the interests of a specific student, which occurs outside the traditional classroom/laboratory setting under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
Undergraduate student service as a teaching assistant, usually in an introductory-level course in the discipline, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
Honors studies leading to a thesis.
Examines tissues to organs as complex systems operating at multiple levels of length and time scale. A particular focus is on how system behavior emerges in non-trivial ways from the ensemble behavior of components at lower levels of scale. Prerequisite: BME 3000.
Covers foundational mathematical models in systems biology, and their computational implementation, describing biological processes from the molecular to the ecological scale. Prerequisite: Beginner knowledge of Python programming is recommended.
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Teams refine their functional prototype from BME Capstone Design 1 and explore approaches for manufacturing at scale, regulatory strategy, clinical strategy, IP strategy, health-economics and reimbursement. Prerequisite: BME 4600.
Research for the Master's Thesis.
Research for the Doctoral Dissertation.