The discipline of biomedical engineering has evolved over the past fifty years, making it clear that it includes a diverse, seemingly all-encompassing range of fields of specialization such as bioinstrumentation, bioimaging, biomechanics, biomaterials, and biomolecular engineering. The program below constitutes a selection of the most important basic tools that will be necessary for a biomedical engineer, suited to a 6 credit course.
PROGRAM:
- Introduction to Biomedical Engineering: The Role of a Biomedical Engineer
- Basics on Medical Instrumentation and Devices: Electricity and Electronics
- Medical Imaging: Digital image processing, X-Ray, Nuclear Medicine, Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound and Medical Optics
- The foundations of modern Biomedicine: Cell and Molecular Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering