Bioengineering

BIOE 4610 Artificial Organs

Designation:		Elective
Description:		The application of engineering prinicples to the design and analysis of artificial organs and their clinical application.
Prerequisite:		BIOE 3400
Textbook:		Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering  R.L. Fournier  Taylor & Francis
Objectives:		To obtain an understanding of the basic transport processes occurring in artificial organs.  To apply transport principles as a basis to formulate a mathematical model in order to understand, analyze and design artifical organs.  Analyze artificial organs using the mathematical software package MathCAD
Topics:		Application of transport concepts to the design and analysis of artificial organs  Properties of body fluids  Solute transport in biological systems  Fluid mechanics of blood  Oxygen transport  Pharmacokinetic models  Extracorporeal devices  Tissue Engineering  Bioartificial organs
Schedule:		2 - 1 hour and 15 minute lectures per week
Contribution:		Engineering topics
Outcomes:		(a)    An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (e)    An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
Prepared by:		Scott Molitor (scott.molitor@utoledo.edu) and Tammy Phares (tamara.phares@utoledo.edu).