Introduction to biomedical engineering [ LGBIO1112 ]

http://icampus.uclouvain.be/claroline/course/index.php?cid=FSAB1225

No prerequisites

Biomedical engineering is a pluridisciplinary field that finds its place at the interface between biomedical sciences and engineering sciences leading on to a multitude of applications. Thus, biomedical engineering is not only an important discipline subject to specific teachings in a constantly increasing number of universities, but also a domain quite difficult to apprehend at first glance.

Therefore the main objective of this course is to present to the students whose interests lay in biomedical engineering an introduction to the discipline. Concretely, this course covers an introduction to the main domains of biomedical engineering: (bio)-instrumentation, medical imaging, medical computer sciences, biological models, artificial organs, (bio)-materials, rehabilitation engineering, radiophysics, and clinical engineering.

Regarding the learning outcomes of the program of "Master in Biomedical Engineering", this course contributes to the development and the acquisition of the following learning outcomes:

    AA1.1, AA1.2, AA1.3

    AA6.2

More precisely, at the end of this course, students will be able to:

• understand, through a series of examples, the notions of (bio)instrumentation, (bio)material, artificial organs, medical imaging, clinical engineering, modelling of biological systems, etc. '
• later on, apply these concepts in order to solve elementary problems in the field of biomedical engineering

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Students will be individually evaluated (written and/or oral examination) on the learning outcomes detailed above.

The course is made of lectures given by the teachers.

The different fields of application of engineering to biomedical sciences will be presented in the course, with many examples of practical implementations. Among them:

• Biomedical engineering : a historical perspective
• Ethics in the field of biomedical engineering
• Biomechanics (mechanical properties of biomaterials and applications)
• Rehabilitation
• Biomaterials
• Tissue engineering
• Bioinstrumentation
• Biosensors
• Biomedical signals processing
• Mathematical modeling of physiological systems
• Bioinformatics and genomics
• Medical imaging

The course documents are available on iCampus.

"Introduction to Biomedical Engineering", Elsevier, available at BST (UCL public library)