BMEN.5030 Medical Device Development

Description

This course focuses of conceptualizing and developing medical devices, including research, clinical needs, engineering, and intellectual property. Students will explore and navigate the principles underlying the successes and challenges of medical device development through project-based learning. In collaboration with faculty from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, students will learn a vast rang of biomedical engineering approaches ranging from non-invasive, invasive, implantable devices for mechanical, chemical, optical, and electrical interfacing for diagnostics and treatment. As required, projects will focus on device design, actuation, instrumentation, control, software to address unmet clinical needs.

Course prerequisites/corequisites are determined by the faculty and approved by the curriculum committees. Students are required to fulfill these requirements prior to enrollment. For courses offered through online or GPS delivery, students are responsible for confirming with the instructor or department that all enrollment requirements have been satisfied before registering.