Introduction to Biomedical Engineering

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency in standard laboratory techniques
• Safely perform biochemical laboratory techniques
• Setup apparatus correctly to conduct experiments

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Draw annotated diagrams to demonstrate key concepts in the physical science
• Identify steps in a physical science process and what happens when it goes wrong
• Analyze the ethical considerations of using technology on humans in support of health and wellness
• From Block 2 - Students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: • The principles of electricity, electrostatics and magnetism • Waves, resonance and ionizing radiation •Solid Mechanics From Block 3 - Students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: •The structure of nucleic acids and how DNA is replicated and transcribed •The structure of membranes. •The immune system and its key components. From Block 4 , Students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: •The principles of chemical bonds, reaction rates and equilibria. •The concept of chemical equilibrium.
• Understand key concepts important to the physical science and required for better understanding of BME usage.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the experimental risks and understand how to mitigate against those risks
• Apply core physical science equations to calculations
• Apply common mathematical expressions encountered in science and engineering
• Extract model parameters from experimental data sets

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate errors in data and experiments
• Interpret data from an experiment, including the construction of appropriate graphs
• Collect data and write up experimental results in scientific format.

Block 1: Introduction to Biomedical Engineering.

• What is biomedical engineering and what are we trying to achieve
• Ethical considerations of engineering solutions in health care.
• The importance of end-user interaction in developing solutions for patients
• Measurements and their errors
• A systems level approach to sensing the world.

Block 2: Introductory Physics

• Waves & optics
• Electricity and magnetism
• Thermal physics
• Ionising radiation
• Mechanics

Block 3: Introductory Biology

• Amino acids, proteins and DNA
• Enzymes
• Sugars and Carbohydrates
• Cells and pathogens
• The immune system

Block 4: Introductory Physical Chemistry

• Systems, materials, and bonds
• Thermodynamics and energies
• Chemical Potential and Equilibrium
• Reactions, Enthalpy and Entropy
• Example systems: redox reactions and electrochemical potentials

Teaching and learning is through lectures, seminars and specialist laboratories.

40 hours of lectures, 8 hours of seminars and 12 hours of laboratories

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.