Development of Computational Labs on Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
PRESENTED BY:
Dr. Mia K. Markey, Assistant Professor for Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor for Biomedical Engineering
Dr. A.J. Welch, Professor for Biomedical Engineering
The biggest concern raised by the first BME graduating class was the lack of a
course devoted entirely to computational and numerical methods in biomedical
engineering. After a careful look at our own curriculum and numerous discussions
with colleagues in BME and ECE, we have developed a one hour hands-on,
laboratory course BME 113L that addresses these concerns. The course is
structured with one hour of lecture and two hours of hands-on lab. This course
was offered for the first time in Spring 2007 and will be a required course for
all BME majors starting 2008.
The academic development funds were used to develop this course with a dual
focus. To focus on teaching mathematical languages commonly used in a variety of
BME applications and to use these languages to construct and analyze
computationally intensive problems tackled by BME researchers for cutting edge
research. To achieve this goal all modules and homework's were based on research
problems currently being tackled by BME faculty in our department. All future
students of BME 113L will need to take ECE 312, an additional set of modules
have been developed to be introduced in ECE 312 in an effort to better align the
two courses.
If you plan on attending this seminar please contact Terri Lavorgna or call the Academic Affairs Office at 471-7995 at least one day before the seminar.