This course is an introduction to Catalan for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Through a task-based, communicative approach, this course seeks to initiate students into the elements of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Catalan.

This course will first provide an understanding of basic immunology and then transition to apply these fundamental principles to the design of immunoengineering solutions to biomedical disease challenges. Basic immunological principles that we will cover in the first part of the course include the cells of the immune system and their function, innate and adaptive responses, antigen presentation, T and B cell responses, and immunological memory.

An introduction to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

This course covers basic concepts in electromagnetism and light-matter interactions of biomedical significance. Topics covered include: optical properties of biological cells, tissues and biomaterials; visible and near-infrared light absorption, scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy; advanced microscopy techniques, optical coherence tomography, vibrational spectroscopy, photoacoustic imaging, photodynamic therapy and their relevance to human disease diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

This course seeks to build a foundation of physical principles underlying neuroengineering techniques, including electrical, optical, and magnetic approaches to neural recording and stimulation. We will discuss neural recording probes and materials considerations that influence the quality of the signals and longevity of the probes in the brain. This will be accompanied by the discussion of evolution of neural probes from microwires in the 1950s, to Utah arrays in the 1980s, to modern Neuropixels, meshes, and fibers.

An introduction to transport phenomena in biological systems covering fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and mass transfer at the cellular, tissue, and organ levels. Topics include macroscopic and microscopic mathematical descriptions of physiological fluid mechanics in circulation and tissue and mass transport related to convection and diffusion in biological systems; transmembrane and transvascular transport; biochemical interactions; mass separations; and kinetics of biochemical reactions.

This seminar series is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BME program. Students enrolled in the seminar are expected to attend the BME Seminar Series and/or present at and attend the BME Graduate seminar series. Seminar speakers are chosen each semester by the BME faculty for their relevance to topics in biomedical engineering.

This course will first provide an understanding of basic immunology and then transition to apply these fundamental principles to the design of immunoengineering solutions to biomedical disease challenges. Basic immunological principles that we will cover in the first part of the course include the cells of the immune system and their function, innate and adaptive responses, antigen presentation, T and B cell responses, and immunological memory.