BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING I
Various concepts within the field of biomedical engineering, foundational knowledge of engineering methodology applied to biological and/or medical problems through modules in biomechanics, biomaterials, and cell & tissue engineering.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I
Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 3 points
Research Training
Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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Tal Danino
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X. Edward Guo
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Henry Hess
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Elizabeth Hillman
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Clark T Hung
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Joshua Jacobs
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Christoph Juchem
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Andrew Laine
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Elisa Konofagou
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Kam W Leong
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Helen Lu
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Barclay Morrison
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Elizabeth Olson
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Paul Sajda
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Samuel Sia
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Stavros Thomopoulos
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John T Vaughan
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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Qi Wang
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Nandan L Nerurkar
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Stephen H Tsang
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Elham Azizi
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Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Treena L Arinzeh
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Sanja Vickovic
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Santiago Correa
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Kaveri A Thakoor
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Yvon Woappi
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN
A two-semester design sequence to be taken in the senior year. Elements of the design process, with specific applications to biomedical engineering: concept formulation, systems synthesis, design analysis, optimization, biocompatibility, impact on patient health and comfort, health care costs, regulatory issues, and medical ethics. Selection and execution of a project involving the design of an actual engineering device or system. Introduction to entrepreneurship, biomedical start-ups, and venture capital. Semester I: statistical analysis of detection/classification systems (receiver operation characteristic analysis, logistic regression), development of design prototype, need, approach, benefits and competition analysis. Semester II: spiral develop process and testing, iteration and refinement of the initial design/prototype and business plan development. A lab fee of $100 each is collected.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lauren N Heckelman
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PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN
Projects in Biomedical Enginee
Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.
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Instructor:
Lance Kam
CULPA: 7
h-index: 38
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PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN
Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.
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Instructor:
Tal Danino
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Instructor:
X. Edward Guo
CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info -
Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth Hillman
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info -
Instructor:
Shunichi Homma
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Instructor:
Joshua Jacobs
Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info -
Instructor:
Christoph Juchem
CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info -
Instructor:
Elisa Konofagou
Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info -
Instructor:
Andrew Laine
Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info -
Instructor:
Edward F Leonard
CULPA: 9 Info -
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Kam W Leong
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Instructor:
Barclay Morrison
CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info -
Instructor:
Nandan L Nerurkar
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Elizabeth Olson
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Paul Sajda
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Instructor:
Milan N Stojanovic
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Kenneth Shepard
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Instructor:
Samuel Sia
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Instructor:
Stavros Thomopoulos
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Instructor:
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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Instructor:
Stephen H Tsang
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Instructor:
Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Instructor:
Sanja Vickovic
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PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN
Projects in Biomedical Enginee
Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.
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Instructor:
Grace McIlvain
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PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN
Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.
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Instructor:
Santiago Correa
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Instructor:
Lauren N Heckelman
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SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
CellBioEng&Therapeutics
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Life Sci Future Entreps
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Millard Y Chan
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SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
BIOREACTOR DESIGN
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
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Instructor:
Joseph Viola
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QUANTITATIVE PHYSIOLOGY I
Physiological systems at the cellular and molecular level are examined in a highly quantitative context. Topics include chemical kinetics, molecular binding and enzymatic processes, molecular motors, biological membranes, and muscles.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lance Kam
CULPA: 7
h-index: 38
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BIOSTATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS
Fundamental concepts of probability and statistics applied to biology and medicine. Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and inference, summarizing data and testing for trends. Signal detection theory and the receiver operator characteristic. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB as well as discussion of case studies in biomedicine.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tal Danino
Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info - 4 points
BIOMECHANICS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SOFT TIS
Biomechanics of orthopaedic soft tissues (cartilage, tendon, ligament, meniscus, etc.). Basic and advanced viscoelasticity applied to the muscoskeletal system. Topics include mechanical properties, applied viscoelasticity theory, and biology of orthopaedic soft tissues.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stavros Thomopoulos
h-index: 63 Info - 3 points
SOLID BIOMECHANICS
Applications of continuum mechanics to the understanding of various biological tissues properties. The structure, function, and mechanical properties of various tissues in biolgical systems, such as blood vessels, muscle, skin, brain tissue, bone, tendon, cartilage, ligaments, etc. are examined. The establishment of basic governing mechanical principles and constitutive relations for each tissue. Experimental determination of various tissue properties. Medical and clinical implications of tissue mechanical behavior.
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
X. Edward Guo
CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info - 3 points
Cellular Bioengineering & Therapeutics
CellBioEng&Therapeutics
Explores cutting-edge field of cellular bioengineering and applications of cell therapies. Comprehensive understanding of the principles, techniques, and ethical considerations involved in cells for medical applications studied.
PRIN OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE
ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSTC IMAGNG
Fourier analysis. Physics of diagnostic ultrasound and principles of ultrasound imaging instrumentation. Propagation of plane waves in lossless medium; ultrasound propagation through biological tissues; single-element and array transducer design; pulse-echo and Doppler ultrasound instrumentation, performance evaluation of ultrasound imaging systems using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ultrasound tissue characterization; ultrasound nonlinearity and bubble activity; harmonic imaging; acoustic output of ultrasound systems; biological effects of ultrasound.
- W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elisa Konofagou
Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info - 3 points
Deep Learning for Biomedical Signal Proc
Introduction to methods in deep learning, focus on applications to biomedical signals and sequences. Review of traditional methods for analysis of signals and sequences. Temporal convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. Long-short term memory (LSTM) models and deep state-space models. Theory and methods lectures accompanied with examples from biomedical signal and sequence analysis, including analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), and genomics. Programming assignments use tensorflow/keras. Exams and final project required.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Sajda
CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info - 3 points
Statistical machine learning for genomic
Statistical ML for genomi
Introduction to statistical machine learning methods using applications in genomic data and in particular high-dimensional single-cell data. Concepts of molecular biology relevant to genomic technologies, challenges of high-dimensional genomic data analysis, bioinformatics preprocessing pipelines, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, clustering, probabilistic modeling, hidden Markov models, Gibbs sampling, deep neural networks, gene regulation. Programming assignments and final project will be required.
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Azizi
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
Functional Genomics: Methods and Applica
Introduces approaches for the functional genomic analysis of biological systems and their use to define genotype-phenotype relationships. Genetic variation, gene expression and regulation at the epigenome, chromatin organization level, and link between gene and protein expression covered. Case studies covered: study of cancer and cancer-associated processes, neuro-biology, and organismal development. The presented methods study these events at the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, and proteome levels.Approaches that increase the resolution of functional genomic assays to the level of individual cells, spatial profiling, integration with genetic and chemical screening methods, and their application to chemical genomic approaches also studied. Programming assignments and a final project required.
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Biomaterials and Scaffold Design
An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria in the development of biomaterials and tissue ngineered grafts. Materials structuralfunctional relationships, biocompatibility in terms of material and host responses. Through discussions, readings, and a group design project, students acquire an understanding of cell-material interactions and identify the arameters critical in the design and selection of biomaterials for biomedical applications.
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Helen Lu
CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info - 3 points
TISSUE ENGINEERING
An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria behind the development of cell-based tissue substitutes. Topics include biocompatibility, biological grafts, gene therapy-transfer, and bioreactors.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY
Application of polymers and other materials in drug and gene delivery, with focus on recent advances in field. Basic polymer science, pharmacokinetics, and biomaterials, cell-substrate interactions, drug delivery system fabrication from nanoparticles to microparticles and electrospun fibrous membranes. Applications include cancer therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Course readings include textbook chapters and journal papers. Homework assignments take format of assay responding to open-ended question. Term paper and 30-minute PowerPoint presentation required at end of semester.
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kam W Leong
h-index: 126 Info - 3 points
Research Training
Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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Instructor:
Tal Danino
Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info -
Instructor:
X. Edward Guo
CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info -
Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth Hillman
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
Instructor:
Lance Kam
CULPA: 7
h-index: 38
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Instructor:
Elisa Konofagou
Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info -
Instructor:
Kam W Leong
h-index: 126 Info - 0 points
FIELDWORK
Only for BMEN graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
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Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info - 1-2 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Health as a System
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
SciStory:Grants,Papers,En
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- M 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Santiago Correa
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GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Bioreactor Design & Proto
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- T 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph Viola
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GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Optical Microscopy
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Signal Proc Med Devices
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
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Instructor:
Megan Heenan
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BIOMEDICAL DESIGN II
Second semester of project-based design experience for graduate students. Elements of design process, with focus on skills development, prototype development and testing, and business planning. Real-world training in biomedical design, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- MW 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Megan Heenan
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Instructive Biomaterials
Covers biomaterials that are instructive or have been designed or engineered to be instructive; structure-function-property relationships in natural and synthetic biomaterials. Advances in understanding of material properties emphasized; including electroactivity, chemical, mechanical, geometry/architecture, and the modification of material surfaces and context of their effect on biological function. Evolving field of smart biomaterials discussed. Exercises/demonstrations using materials characterization equipment conducted.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Treena L Arinzeh
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MASTERS RESEARCH
Candidates for the M.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in biomedical engineering. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Olson
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Instructor:
X. Edward Guo
CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info -
Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth Hillman
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info -
Instructor:
Shunichi Homma
h-index: 88 Info -
Instructor:
Joshua Jacobs
Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 1-6 points