Description
The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It serves as an introduction to the fundamental science and engineering on which biomedical engineering is based. Case studies of drugs and medical products illustrate the product development-product testing cycle, patent protection, and FDA approval. It is designed for science and non-science majors.
Course Takeaways
- Learn to think about the body as a system
- Define and familiarize yourself with systems physiology
- Learn the difference Instrumentation used to gain information on the human system, ekgs, heart lung machine, imaging machines and techniques
- Biomechanics Bimolecular engineering concepts - drug delivery, tissue engineering, artificial organs, gene therapies
Meet the Instructors
W. Mark Saltzman is the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. His books include Drug Delivery: Engineering Principles for Drug Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Engineering Principles for the Design of Replacement Organs and Tissues, and his articles have appeared in Biomaterials and Nature Materials. The chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Saltzman is also the recipient of numerous distinguished teaching awards from Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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