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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (BME)

6001 Laboratory Rotations
(0-3) 1 hour credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. A minimum of five rotations of three weeks each through different laboratories in the program is required prior to the student identifying his or her supervising professor. Participation in ongoing research projects in each laboratory and a written report for each rotation is required.

6813 Biomaterials
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Fundamentals in applications of biomaterials science and engineering principles and concepts for repairing, replacing, and protecting human tissues and organs.

6823 Mechanical Behavior of Living Tissues
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Stress strain relationships, viscoelasticity, mechanical properties, and mechanical modeling of collagenous and mineralized human tissues.

6833 Biomechanics
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Fundamentals in applications of engineering mechanics for studying and modeling fluid flow, tissues, organs, and the whole human body.

6843 Advanced Biomechanics
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course covers the biomechanics of biological tissue deformation and their constitutive equations. Topics may include elasticity, viscoelasticity, deformation, stress analysis, strain measurement, stress and strain in organs, and constitutive equations. Tissues covered may include heart, blood vessels, cartilage, and bone.

6853 Tissue Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Basic principles of tissue engineering will be introduced. The three main approaches consisting of 1) use of host cells capable of differentiating into tissues; 2) the development of bioactive factors to induce cells to differentiate into tissues, and 3) the development of delivery scaffolds for the cells and/or bioactive factors will be covered.

6991 Research Seminar
1 hour credit. Prerequisites: Ph.D. student standing and consent of instructor and the Graduate Advisor. May be repeated for a maximum credit of 18 hours. The grade report for the course is either “CR” (satisfactory performance) or “NC” (unsatisfactory performance).

7953,6 Doctoral Research
3 or 6 hours credit. Prerequisites: Ph.D. student standing and consent of instructor and the Graduate Advisor. May be repeated for a maximum credit of 18 hours.

7993,6 Doctoral Dissertation
3 or 6 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of the Doctoral Advisor of Record and Dissertation Advisor. May be repeated for a maximum credit of 18 hours.

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