Tissue engineering can be defined as the application of principles of engineering, biology, materials science, and medicine to restore, maintain, or improve tissue function. This field evolved from the field of biomaterials development, and the term "tissue engineering" has become largely interchangeable with "regenerative medicine," which also incorporates the research on self-healing.
Application of laws of mechanics to study the behavior of human organ systems. Stress-strain analysis of soft and hard body tissues with an emphasis on human musculoskeletal systems.
This course is taught concurrently with BME 673 Biofluid Mechanics. This course provides the students with a review of basic fluid mechanics principles and a direct, practical application of these principles to biomedical and clinical problems associated with the human circulatory system.
An introduction to design and use of assistive technologies and the associated social, technical, ethical, and economic challenges. The course includes clinical observation and community outreach activities, in-class lectures and discussions, and guest speakers.
The concepts of product design and development will be introduced to guide students in completion of a project concerned with design and development of an assistive technology device. Students will work in- group and in close collaboration with end users as well as participating clinicians.
Detailed investigation of a topic of current significance in biomedical engineering such as: biomaterials, hard or soft tissue biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering, cardiopulmonary systems analysis, biomedical imaging.
This introductory course in mathematical modeling will teach students how to construct simple and elegant models of biological and physiological processes -- for instance the absorption and elimination of drugs in the human body or the kinetics of tumour growth in tissue -- and to analyze or predict the dynamics of these events by solving the models.
A comprehensive introduction to bio-medical imaging systems used today, including xray imaging and computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound imaging (UI), and diffuse optical tomography (DOT). The course will review the fundamental mathematics underlying each imaging modality, the hardware needed to implement each system, and the image reconstruction and analysis. The class may involve homework, projects, and exams.
An introduction to mechanical modeling of human motion (lectures) along with application of computational software to model and estimates internal tissues responses to physical demands of several different activities/tasks (lab activities).
This course will serve as an introduction to cell and tissue level mechanobiology with focus on human physiological and disease processes. The primary focus is to introduce principles of cell-level mechanics in the context of the biology of living organisms, what we term mechanobiology. In effect, we treat biological processes and regulation as another variable(s) that must be accounted for when modeling the mechanical/physical behavior of human tissues. A large amount of the basic principles in this field of study arose as a result of the intense research in the cardiovascular field.
