Biol Fund Biomed Sci Eng Honor

Catalog description

3 Lecture Hour(s) 2 Lab Hour(s) This combined lecture and laboratory course provides an introduction to biological knowledge that is useful for creation of engineering solutions to problems in biomedicine and healthcare. Lectures emphasize the fundamental bioprocesses important for production of biologics, antibiotics and bioactive chemicals, design of bioreactors, synthetic biological systems, biomimetics and engineered biomedical devices. In the laboratory, students consider real biomedical problems impacting society, and create engineered prototypes to solve the problems. Students perform experiments to test biological principles used in designs and to validate prototypes.