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Introduction to cell types and structure, nucleic acids, proteins and enzyme kinetics. Gene expression including transcription, translation and post-translational modification. Introduction to genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. Genetic engineering and tissue engineering. Applications to biotechnology.

Introduction to material, energy, charge, and momentum balances in biological systems. Overview of the field of bioengineering. Technological bases for established and emerging subfields.

Fluid statics. Shear stress and viscosity. Energy and momentum balances for flow systems. Dimensional analysis. Friction and drag coefficients. Turbulent flow of compressible and incompressible fluids. Non-Newtonian fluids.

PREREQ MAT 397 AND (PHY 212 OR PHY 216)

Students will analyze the human health impact of exposure to toxic chemicals in air, water, and soil according to USEPA Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund. Additional work required of graduate students.

Basics of imaging techniques useful for biological and medical applications. Microscopy, electron microscopy, acoustic microscopy, atomic force microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging. Discussion of images and literature. MRI laboratory exercises.

Measurement and analysis of biological signals in the time and frequency domain. Operational amplifiers, analog, and digital signal processing; sensors and sources of biopotentials; biopotential electrodes. Matlab, Labview and C programming.
PREREQ ELE 231 AND ELE 251

Measurement and analysis of biological signals in the time and frequency domain. Operational amplifiers, analog, and digital signal processing; sensors and sources of biopotentials; biopotential electrodes.
COREQ BEN 465 AND BEN 481

Bioengineering design experience. Lecture, discussion, active learning components. Team design of biomedical system, device, or process from concept through prototype production. Includes design strategy, reliability, FDA regulations, patents, oral, and written presentations.

Covers wide-ranging topics related to stem cell and regenerative biology, including: introduction of cell and developmental biology, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and the political and ethical issues surrounding the stem cell debate.

Polymer structure, physical properties, and applications of polymers. Polymer synthesis, characterization of molecular structure, and copolymerization and blending. Unique physical properties of polymeric materials. Processing and applications of polymers.

Functions and mechanical properties of cells and tissues, how those cells and tissues combine to form structures, the properties and behaviors of those structures, and biomechanical techniques to analyze the structures and individual components.
PREREQ ECS 221 AND MAT 485 AND BEN 364

Bioengineering solution development experience. Team development of a bioengineering innovation. Brainstorm, design, iterate and test hypotheses. Lecture and experiential learning. Hands on concept development and evaluation, bioengineering industry exposure, visual management, oral, and poster presentations.

Material balances for single units and multistage processes. Recycle and bypass streams. Introduction to phase equilibrium. Energy balances including latent and sensible heat effects, heats of reaction.

Thermodynamics of homogeneous mixtures and mixing processes. Phase equilibrium for nonideal solutions. Equilibrium stage separations with applications including distillation and extraction. Chemical reaction equilibria.
PREREQ CEN 252

Report writing and laboratory safety. Statistical analysis and experimental design. Experiments on distillation, diffusion, and convective mass transfer. Engineering reports, summary reports, and oral presentations required. One four-hour laboratory a week.
PREREQ CEN 341 and CEN 311

Establish working knowledge of experimental tools to characterize solid materials (catalysts, metals, semiconductors). Theory for each technique, information provided for various research topics, experimental parameters, and data interpretation will be discussed. Additional work required of graduate students.

Selected topics in heat and mass transfer. Application of transport principles to analysis & design of unit operations.
PREREQ CEN 341

Conversion and reactor sizing, isothermal reactor design for flow and batch systems, rate laws and stoichiometry, analysis of rate data, multiple reactions, introduction to heterogeneous reactor design.
PREREQ CEN 341

Use of fundamental physical, chemical and mathematical principles involving chemical engineering problems. Problems associated with transport theory and chemical kinetics requiring the solution of partial differential equations using orthogonal function expansions. Duhammel's theorem and other techniques.