Professional Development II

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Professional Development follows a multidisciplinary approach to promote individual career development in the biomedical sciences. The course includes lectures, discussion, sessions, seminars, and hands-on activities. Topics of particular emphasis are oral and written communication and rigor and ethics in scientific research. *GRAD 8961. Science Storytelling. 1 credit. Course offered through Marquette University only. See the MU bulletin for more details. Applied Mathematics (3 credits) E.g., applied mathematical methods, fluid mechanics, finite element methods, biomedical signal processing, signals and systems, etc. BIOM/*BIEN 5400 Transport Phenomena. 3 credits. Applications of mass, momentum, and mechanical energy balances to biomedical fluid systems. Study of physiological phenomena with an emphasis on cardiovascular systems and blood rheology. *BIEN 5410. Applied Finite Element Analysis. 3 credits. Course offered through Marquette University only. See the MU bulletin for more details. BIOM/*BIEN 5510 Image Processing for the Biomedical Sciences. 3 credits. Introduces biomedical image processing. Topics explored include: the human visual system, spatial sampling and digitization, image transforms, spatial filtering, Fourier analysis, image enhancement and restoration, nonlinear and adaptive filters, color image processing, geometrical operations and morphological filtering, image coding and compression image segmentation, feature extraction and object classification. Applications in diagnostic medicine, biology and biomedical research are emphasized and presented as illustrative examples. BIOM/*BIEN 6120 Introduction to the Finite Element Method. 3 credits. Introduces finite element analysis as applied to linear, static problems. Application to problems in plane strain, plane stress, and axisymmetry. Development of shape functions and element stiffness matrices. Although primarily structural analysis, also considers problems in heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Use of user-written and packaged software. BIOM/*BIEN 6200 Biomedical Signal Processing. 3 credits. Introduces students to statistical processing of biomedical data. Topics include: data acquisition, probability and estimation, signal averaging, power spectrum analysis, windowing, digital filters and data compression. Students complete several computer projects which apply these processing methods to physiologic signals. BIOM/*BIEN 6210 Advanced Biomedical Signal Processing. 3 credits. Prerequisites: BIOM/*BIEN 6200 Biomedical Signal Processing. Covers modern methods of signal processing encountered in the bio-medical field including parametric modeling, modern spectral estimation, multivariate analysis, adaptive signal processing, decimation/interpolation, and two-dimensional signal analysis. Students complete several computer projects which apply these modern techniques to physiologic data.