BME 515: Therapeutic Medical Devices

Home : Courses :
BME 515 - Therapeutic Medical Devices

WWW Resources

Timetable Information

Engineering Courses on the Web (eCOW)

eCOW2 Courses

Create eCOW2 Course Homepage

Past Semester Courses
BME 515 Therapeutic Medical Devices, Spring09 (Tompkins) Sections: 001

Edit This Page

Catalog Description

515 Therapeutic Medical Devices. II; 1 cr. Design of medical devices to treat pathology. Open to majors in biomedical engineering. One lecture each week. P: BME 310, BME 315, Physiol 335. Con reg in BME 430.

Course Prerequisite(s)

BME 310
BME 315

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Bioinstrumentation
Biomechanics
Physiology
Biomaterials

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Reading will be provided

Course objectives

Each of the lectures will briefly review physiology and common pathology from an engineering point of view. Then it will focus on function of a therapeutic medical device and how biomedical engineers contribute to its design.
The present undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum requires measurement, biomechanics, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering design. This course will provide to students understanding of therapeutic medical devices so that they will be able to contribute in hospitals, industry, and research.

Topics covered

Pacemakers & defibrillators
Communication aids
Aids for the blind
Neural assist devices
Prosthetic joints
Physical therapy equipment
Cardiac valves, angioplasty
Arterial stents
Anesthesia machine & ventilator
Intelligent drug delivery
Artificial kidney and pancreas
Gastrointestinal therapy
Photodynamic therapy
Radiotherapy linear accelerator

Class/laboratory schedule

One 50 minute lecture each Tuesday from 12:05 to 12:55.

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, but does not provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

Health and safety

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

This course will provide to students understanding of therapeutic medical devices so that they will be able to contribute in hospitals, industry, and research.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

Students will take a one-hour exam during the last class.

Person(s) who prepared this description

John G. Webster

Copyright 2009 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Date last modified: 07-Apr-2009
Content by: bme@engr.wisc.edu
Accessibility

Web services