Bioengineering

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BIO ENG 10 Introduction to Biomedicine for Engineers 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This course is intended for lower division students interested in acquiring a foundation in biomedicine with topics ranging from evolutionary biology to human physiology. The emphasis is on the integration of engineering applications to biology and health. The specific lecture topics and exercises will include the key aspects of genomics and proteomics as well as topics on plant and animal evolution, stem cell biomedicine, and tissue regeneration and replacement. Medical physiology topics include relevant engineering aspects of human brain, heart, musculoskeletal, and other systems.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes: The goal is for undergraduate engineering students to gain sufficient biology and human physiology fundamentals so that they are better prepared to study specialized topics, e.g., biomechanics, imaging, computational biology, tissue engineering, biomonitoring, drug development, robotics, and other topics covered by upper division and graduate courses in UC Berkeley departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Integrative Biology, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and courses in the UC San Francisco Division of Bioengineering.

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: MATH 1A or MATH 16A (can be taken concurrently)

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructors: Conboy, Kumar, Johnson

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BIO ENG 11 Engineering Molecules 1 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course focuses on providing students with a foundation in organic chemistry and biochemistry needed to understand contemporary problems in synthetic biology, biomaterials and computational biology.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: The goal of this course is to give students the background in organic chemistry and biochemistry needed understand problems in synthetic biology, biomaterials and molecular imaging. Emphasis is on basic mechanisms

Student Learning Outcomes: Students will learn aspects of organic and biochemistry required to begin the rational manipulation and/or design of biological systems and the molecules they are comprised of.

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: CHEM 3A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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BIO ENG 24 Freshmen Seminar 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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BIO ENG 25 Careers in Biotechnology 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This introductory seminar is designed to give freshmen and sophomores an opportunity to explore specialties related to engineering in the pharmaceutical/biotech field. A series of one-hour seminars will be presented by industry professionals, professors, and researchers. Topics may include biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing; process and control engineering; drug inspection process; research and development; compliance and validation; construction process for a GMP facility; project management; and engineered solutions to environmental challenges. This course is of interest to students in all areas of engineering and biology, including industrial engineering and manufacturing, chemical engineering, and bioengineering.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.

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BIO ENG 26 Introduction to Bioengineering 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This introductory seminar is designed to give freshmen and sophomores a glimpse of a broad selection of bioengineering research that is currently underway at Berkeley and UCSF. Students will become familiar with bioengineering applications in the various concentration areas and see how engineering principles can be applied to biological and medical problems.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: This course is designed to expose students to current research and problems in bioengineering. As a freshman/sophomore class, its main purpose is to excite our students about the possibilities of bioengineering and to help them to choose an area of focus.

Student Learning Outcomes: This course demonstrates the rapid pace of new technology and the need for life-long learning (2). In addition, the course, because of its state-of-the-art research content, encourages our students to explore new horizons (3).

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

Instructors: T. Johnson, H. Lam

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BIO ENG 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2013
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring:
5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week
10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week
8 weeks - 1.5-3.5 hours of seminar and 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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BIO ENG 98 Supervised Independent Group Studies 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Organized group study on various topics under the sponsorship of a member of the Bioengineering faculty.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricul a section of this catalog.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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BIO ENG 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Supervised independent study for lower division students.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing and consent of instructor

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week

Summer:
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
10 weeks - 1.5-6 hours of independent study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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BIO ENG 100 Ethics in Science and Engineering 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The goal of this semester course is to present the issues of professional conduct in the practice of engineering, research, publication, public and private disclosures, and in managing professional and financial conflicts. The method is through historical didactic presentations, case studies, presentations of methods for problem solving in ethical matters, and classroom debates on contemporary ethical issues. The faculty will be drawn from national experts and faculty from religious studies, journalism, and law from the UC Berkeley campus.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructors: Lam, Hayley

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BIO ENG 101 Instrumentation in Biology and Medicine 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course teaches the fundamental principles underlying modern sensing and control instrumentation used in biology and medicine. The course takes an integrative analytic and hands-on approach to measurement theory and practice by presenting and analyzing example instruments currently used for biology and medical research, including EEG, ECG, pulsed oximeters, Complete Blood Count (CBC), etc.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Students should understand the architecture and design principles of modern biomedical sensor data-acquisition (sensor-DAQ) systems. They should understand how to choose the appropriate biomedical sensor, instrumentation amplifier, number of bits, sampling rate, anti-aliasing filter, and DAQ system. They will learn how to design a low-noise instrumentation amplifier circuit. They should understand the crucial importance of suppressing 60 Hz and other interferences to acquire high quality low-level biomedical signals. They should understand the design principles of building, debugging.

Student Learning Outcomes: Students will achieve knowledge and skills in biomedical signal acquisition. They will be assessed in their success with the Course Objectives through tests, homeworks, and laboratories. In particular, the tests will ensure that the students have absorbed the theoretical concepts. The laboratories will provide assessment of learning practical skills (e.g., building an ECG circuit).

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: EECS 16A, EECS 16B, MATH 53, MATH 54, PHYSICS 7A, and PHYSICS 7B; or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Conolly

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BIO ENG 102 Biomechanics: Analysis and Design 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This course introduces, develops and applies the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena abundant in biology and medicine. It is intended for upper level undergraduate students who have been exposed to vectors, differential equations, and undergraduate course(s) in physics and certain aspects of modern biology.

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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: This course introduces, develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena related to tissue or organ levels. It is intended for upper level undergraduate students who have been exposed to vectors, differential equations, and undergraduate course(s) in physics and certain aspects of modern biology.

Topics include:
• Biosolid mechanics
• Stress, strain, constitutive equation
• Vector and tensor math
• Equilibrium
• Extension, torsion, bending, buckling
• Material properties of tissues

Student Learning Outcomes: The course will equip the students with a deep understanding of principles of biomechanics. The intuitions gained in this course will help guide the analysis of design of biomedical devices and help the understanding of biological/medical phenomena in health and disease.
The students will develop insight, skills and tools in quantitative analysis of diverse biomechanical systems and topics, spanning various scales from cellular to tissue and organ levels.

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: MATH 53, MATH 54, and PHYSICS 7A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Bioengineering/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Mofrad