Courses
BME5500 - Biomedical Instrumentation (3 credits)
Engineering and medical aspects of the measurement and processing of signals from living systems. Biomedical transducers for measurements of movement, biopotentials, pressure, flow, concentrations, and temperature are discussed, as well as treatment devices like ventilators and infusion pumps. Whenever possible devices actually used in clinical practice are used in class.
BME6938 - Finite Element Modeling for Biological Systems (3 credits)
Implementation of finite element and related methods, drawing examples from Biomedical Engineering. Therefore the course will also cover method of incorporating freeform biological shapes in computational models such as shape importation and image segmentation. The course will cover the basics of Finite Element methods, such as shape functions and sparse matrix methods, giving students enough background to allow them to intelligently operate complex commercial software or to construct their own models. Students will also be exposed to methods such as finite difference, boundary element and time domain modeling, adaptive meshing and other large scale modeling techniques. A substantial portion of the course will involve students developing and solving their own models.
