BE 471 Cardio-Pulmonary Biomechanics

This course is designed to be a first course covering the broad fields of cardiac and pulmonary biomechanics. The course begins with a review of anatomy and physiology of the human circulatory and respiratory systems before focusing on engineering approaches to the study of these respective areas of study. Topic areas will include: rheology of blood, mechanics of blood vessels and the airway, steady and unsteady flow models, cardiac and pulmonary bioinstrumentation, cardiac ejection mechanics, mechanics of ventilation, and applications of imaging techniques to study the cardiac and pulmonary systems. Prerequisite ENGR 331; Co-requisite BIOL 418.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

requires prior enrollment in ENGR 331 and concurrent enrollment in BIOL 418