Teaching

BME 402 Medical Instrumentation (spring semester)

This is a undergraduate level required course for BME major. The course is designed to introduce students to the principles, applications, and design of instruments used in biomedical research and applications. The emphasis will be on engineering design and analysis with supplemental discussion of relevant physiological principles. Students will learn to analyze and design systems by solving regular homework problems and active participation during lectures and in-class examples. Topics include basic concepts of medical instrumentation, basic Sensors and principles amplifiers and signal processing, biopotentials, biopotential electrodes, biopotential amplifiers, blood pressure and sound, blood flow and volume measurement, chemical biosensors, medical imaging (x-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound) etc.

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BME 403 Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory (spring semester)

This is a undergraduate level required course for BME major. It is the Engineering Design Laboratory to accompany BIOE 402, Medical Instrumentation. The class is comprised of studies in medical instrumentation and transducers for static and dynamic biological inputs and measures actual biomedical signals. For preparation for industry or research, proper laboratory documentation techniques are taught along with basic skills for presenting data as an engineering journal manuscript. Students work together in teams of two to perform the experiments however, written labs and exams are the responsibility of the individual student.

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BME 450W Biomedical Senior Design

This is an undergraduate level team based capstone design course with open ended project for industry or clinical applications related to Biomedical Engineering. Students will be required to do needs assessment, project planning, budget planning, formulation of design specifications, analysis of the design, and documentation of results. Several design review reports and assessments will be used to monitor progress throughout the semester. Students will develop teamwork and communication skills and learn how to consider the ethical implications of their design, both in construction and use. Students meet with the instructor and sponsor on a regular basis for progress assessment. Notebooks are carefully maintained and critiqued. At the end of the semester, students will demonstrate their final design in a variety of formats that may include formal presentations, posters, websites, and written reports.

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BME 410 Biomedical Applications of Microfluidics (alternatively fall semester)

This is an undergraduate level course on micro/nano engineering in BME. The main objectives are:

• Introduce nanomaterials, including material property, design, characterization, and applications
• Introduce silicon based microfabrication and non-conventional micro/nano fabrication techniques;
• Study flow phenomena at small length scales, including laminar flow and flow resistance, inertial flow, diffusion, capillary effect, electrokinetic flow like electroosmosis, electrophoresis, and dielectrophoresis (DEP), etc.
• Introduce microfluidic components (valves, pumps, mixers, sensors, actuators, etc) and lab-on-chip concept and applications
• Hand-on lab to make and test microfluidic device using soft lithography
• Use finite element simulation tool COMSOL Multiphysics to gain better understanding of microfluidic devices
• Micro/nano engineering in biomedical applications, including disease diagnosis, drug delivery, neural engineering, biomanufacturing, etc.

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BIOE 510 BioMEMS and Bionanotechnology (alternatively fall semester)

This is a graduate level course on micro/nano engineering in BME. The main objective is to prepare students for research in BioMEMS (Bio MicroElectroMechanical Systems) and Bionanotechnology. After completing the course, students are expected to be able to

• Understand and apply various the principle of micro/nano engineering in the context of biomedical applications;
• Analyze and evaluate micro/nano engineering design and fabrication, material compatibility with biological systems, and cellular interaction at the interface;
• Critically review current micro/nano engineering literature with emphasis in biomedical applications.