EBME 403. Biomedical Transducers
Description
Analysis and design of transducers: optical, photo-electric,
electrochemical, electrical, mechanical, electromechanical,
and thermoelectric. Applications to biomedical systems.
Course Goals
The expectation of this course is that the students
will develop a graduate level, in-depth understanding
of the most important biomedical transducers and
instruments. The students will also learn how to
design, build, test and use a selected biomedical
transducer complete with conditioning circuitry,
data acquisition and display. They will learn how
to do all this in a team.
Specific course objectives are:
1. To teach the students how to measure physical/chemical/biological
variables relevant to medicine and biology using
state-of-the-art instrumentation
2. To teach how to design instruments useful to the
medical community
3. To make the students aware of real-life contemporary
biomedical problems that can be addressed by instrumentation.
All this is done on a graduate level, and in-depth,
focusing on transducers and the input stage of the
associated electronics.
Prerequisites
An undergraduate biomedical instrumentation course,
or equivalent knowledge and experience are required,
as well as basic skills to use a personal computer
and common commercial scientific software.
Class/laboratory Schedule
Two 75 minute lectures and an hour spent on a team
design project each week.
Typical Class Size
45
Semesters and Years Offered
Offered every fall.
Computer Usage
Many assignments require computer usage (calculations,
simulations, text files and graphics). The team design
always includes computer aided design of several
planned variations of the end product. Data acquisition
and processing is also part of the testing of the
final design.
Laboratory Projects
Team design project.
Course Objectives
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