Introduction to Biomaterials Engineering - Laboratory

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This is a core BME Laboratory course directed at providing Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students 'hands on' experience in a component of biomaterials engineering, specifically, biocompatibility. To that end, the course will focus on blood compatibility (hemocompatibility) of biomaterials, by teaching students how to analyze the interaction of blood components (proteins, platelets, RBCs) on biomedical relevant coated versus uncoated polymer surfaces. The students will learn important characterization techniques like contact angle measurement, UV-Vis spectroscopy and optical microscopy in the context of characterizing blood interactions with materials. This course satisfies the GER Disciplinary Communication requirement only in combination with EBME 370 . Counts as a Disciplinary Communication course. Prereq: EBME 201 and EBME 202 . Prereq or Coreq: EBME 306 .