COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOENGINEERING IN ORTHOPAEDICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMK 6050 BIOENGINEERING IN ORTHOPAEDICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Biomechanics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HASAN HAVITÇIOĞLU

Offered to

Biomechanics

Course Objective

To exhibit relationship of two disciplines of orthopaedics and bioengineering and to perform their applications in orthopaedics by covering common working areas of these two disciplines.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To get knowledge about orthopaedics devices and equipments.
2   To cover clinical orthopaedics in terms of bioengineering area.
3   To have information of structures like bone and cartilage tissue.
4   To able to use bioengineering devices and equipments related to orthopaedics.
5   To know ethic concepts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to orthopaedic materials Concept of Biomedical Material Description, Classification and Criteria of Biomaterials Techniques used in biomaterial production Tissue Engineering Products: Patents, Rules and Recent Developments Polymers used for biomedical purpose; natural polymers, synthetic polymers; and their area of utilization
2 Covering of Biological orthopaedic materials in term of mechanics, tensile of materials and strain Biomechanics, Bioinstrumentation, Biomaterial Engineering analysis examples and design applied to issues in primary areas related to biotechnology Technological requirements, design method science Characterisation of biomaterials and structural analysis

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Laboratory works, theoretical calculations, machine usage.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + PRJ* 0.30 +FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PRJ* 0.30 +RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be done by exams. The grade for the course is 75 (2.5).

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hasan.havitcioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 2 15 30
Tutorials 2 15 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 3 8 24
Preparation for midterm exam 2 2 4
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 3 5 15
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Design Project 3 6 18
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55