Biomedical Instrumentation
(3-0-0-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives
Course Coordinator: Omer T Inan
Prerequisites: ECE 3030 [min C] or ECE 3040 [min C] or ECE 3710 [min D]
Catalog Description
A study of physiological sensing topics from a systems viewpoint. Pertinent physiological and electro-physiological concepts will be covered. Crosslisted with CHE and ME 4781Textbook(s)
Medical Instrumentation: Application and DesignCourse Outcomes
Analyze op amp based circuits and systems for biomedical sensing
Describe challenges in real-world biomedical sensing problems such as motion artifacts, skin-electrode interface, and low signal to noise ratio
Develop strategies for mitigating these real-world challenges including through the design of multi-modal sensing systems and high performance circuit design
Design biomedical sensing systems based on discrete analog and embedded systems hardware
Communicate the design of biomedical sensing systems to a diverse audience of engineers and / or clinicians via written and oral presentation
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
N/A
Topic List
- Basic Concepts of Biomedical Circuits and Systems
- Applied Biomedical Systems: Orthotics and Prosthetics
- Fundamentals of Transducers and Interface Circuits
- Membrane Biophysics
- Action Potentials
- Biopotential Electrodes
- Electrophysiology of the Heart and Neuromuscular System
- Miscellaneous Electrophysiology
- Biomedical Transducers
- Wearable Sensing
- Measurement of Hemodynamics and Respiration