ME464 SPECIAL TOPICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS
| Course Code: | 5690464 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr ALTUĞ ÖZÇELİKKALE |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims to provide students with the fundamental principles of fluid, heat, and mass transport and their applications in biomedical systems.
Course Content
Fundamentals of fluid, heat, and mass transport in biomedical systems; rheology of biological
fluids; modeling of fluid flow in circulation and tissues; bioheat transfer modeling;
thermoregulation, thermal injury, thermal therapy and cryopreservation; biological mass
transport modeling, transport coefficients of biomaterials, biochemical and particle-fluid-
structure interactions; applications in biomedical device design, drug delivery, and
mechanobiology.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- recognize the challenges biomedical systems pose for engineering design, modeling, and analysis. analyze physiological and biological transport processes, incorporating relevant engineering tools.
- develop and evaluate models for transport in cells, tissues, and organs under physiological and pathological conditions.
- apply mechanical engineering principles and interdisciplinary approaches to design and development of biomedical devices and techniques; and to address research and clinical challenges such as mechanobiology, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
- collaborate on project-based learning to propose solutions to real-world biomedical engineering problems.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Ability to establish the relationship between mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences with engineering applications. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability to find and interpret information | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to follow the literature and technology related to his/her topic of interest | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Recognition of the need to keep oneself up to date in his/her profession | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Possession of written and oral communication skills | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability to conduct team work (within the discipline, inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability to produce original solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Use of scientific methodology in approaching and producing solutions to engineering problems and needs | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Openness to all that is new | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability to conduct experiments | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Ability to do engineering design | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Awareness of engineering ethics, knowledge and adoption of its fundamental elements | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Ability to take societal, environmental and economical considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||