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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (E62)  (Dept. Info)Engineering and Applied Science  (Policies)

E62 BME 413Engineering for First- and Third-World Health3.0 Units
Description:Biomedical engineering, as a discipline, aspires to improve the human condition through the alleviation of suffering in disease, through diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, and through the promotion of health. Although BME can address several problems at several levels, one distinction arises in practice, and a second in undergraduate life. The real-world problems and solutions arise in the developed and developing world; these domains share several similarities, but also feature real differences that call upon differential engineering approaches. This course will examine the engineering principles and practice that best apply to emergent solutions and unmet challenges in 1st-world and 3rd-world health. The collegiate experience often isolates the majority of undergraduate courses as "foundational" or "core" rather than applicable to very current, challenging, multidimensional problems. Our department, our school and university, and our societies value the contribution of engineers in solving these problems. Indeed, students very often achieve meaningful impact in real-world problems, but experienced most directly through extracurricular, not curricular, experience. This course will provide the framework for students to build substantive ties between their curricular base and extracurricular problems and solutions. Co-requisites: Junior or senior standing; E62 301A and/or 301B. Prerequisites: Candidate students will need to have had previous engagement outside of class (through extracurriculars, volunteering, employment, etc.) with a particular problem in 1st- or 3rd- world medicine or health, most broadly construed. At registration students will submit a short paragraph identifying the problem and how the student has engaged the problem outside the traditional classroom. This problem will serve as the theme for the student's independent engineering analysis in the course. Identification of the problem, through submission of the paragraph, will move st
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Q=ME Q (Medical School)

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