Course Catalog 2010-2011
International

Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University

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Opinto-opas 2010-2011

Biomedical Engineering, 25 cr

Type of the study block

Minor Studies

Contact

Jari Hyttinen

Learning outcomes

- Students have a good command in the basics of human anatomy and physiology, and in physics of the human body, and they can apply this knowledge in the advanced biomedical engineering courses.
- Students understand the physical interaction mechanisms utilized in medical instrumentation systems.
- Students know the basics of biomaterials used in medical devices.
- Students can recognize different stages of the research and development of biomedical devices and understand the importance of different standards and regulations for the R&D of medical devices.
- Students can record the essential physical quantities of the human body and evaluate the error and noise factors of these measurement systems.

Content

Compulsory courses

Course Credit points
BME-1116 Physics of the Human Body 4 cr
BME-1157 Biomedical Engineering: Signals and Systems 2 cr
BME-1167 Biomedical Engineering: Biomaterials 2 cr
BME-1177 Biomedical Engineering: Research and Productization 2 cr
LTT-1016 Human Anatomy and Physiology 6 cr
LTT-1806 Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course 4 cr
Total 20 cr

Supplemental courses

Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (25)

Course Credit points
BME-2106 Measurements and Analysis of Physiological Systems 5 cr
BME-2606 eHealth 5 cr
LTT-2306 Instrumentation in Clinical Chemistry 5 cr
LTT-3307 Radiation Physics 3 cr
LTT-4106 Processing of Physiological Signals 5 cr

Additional information

Biomedical Engineering is a very wide and multidisciplinary field of engineering applications in medicine. Biomedical Engineering minor gives a solid background to understand the anatomic structure and physiological and physical functioning of the human body and to apply this knowledge in engineering courses. It gives a theoretical introduction to and practicing with medical instrumentation, signals and images, physiological modeling, as well as biomaterials.

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