Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The curriculum for the BSBME degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a series of lecture-laboratory courses: bioinstrumentation, biomechanics, biomaterials, physiology for engineers, modeling of physiological systems, one each semester.Bioinstrumentation is taken in the fourth semester, with prerequisites of calculus, physics, and chemistry.It builds on physics to provide learning of electric circuits, instrumentation, and strength of materials.Because this course also serves as an introduction to the different areas of biomedical engineering, students learn to make measurements in all these areas.For biomechanics, they learn to measure stress and strain of bone and to measure gait.For biomaterials, they learn to measure molecular size and protein adsorption.They learn the principles and practices of measurements in the hospital clinical chemistry laboratory as well as in cardiology, radiology, and other clinics.They learn biostatistics, as well as the newer techniques in biotechnology, such as gene sequencing and biosensors.Twelve laboratories complement the text chapters at www.engr.wisc.
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--7896
Author: John G. Webster
Institution: University of Wisconsin System
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2508423547