COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIODESIGN IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMT 5035 BIODESIGN IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLTER GÜLDEN KÖKTÜRK

Offered to

Biomedical Tehnologies (English)

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To teach students the basics of biodesign.
2   To teach students how biomedical techniques can be associated with biodesign.
3   To describe and discuss biodesign samples in biomedical engineering.
4   To have students work on bio-design applications in biomedical engineering.
5   Be able to recognize, describe, and apply the Biodesign approach to the creation of innovative concept solutions in biomedical engineering.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to biodesign: What is biodesign What is the difference between biodesign, biomimetic design, and biointeractive design
2 General view on biodesign process: 10 design rules of nature, Inspiration forms in biodesign
3 Biodesign in Biomedical Engineering: Current examples, Examples for mimicking of nature in terms of materials
4 Evolutionary computations and genetic algorithms
5 Nanotechnology in Biomedical Engineering
6 Fundamentals on biomechanical device design
7 Midterm exam
8 Guest Lecturers: Presentation of clinical problems by the guest lecturer from the Cardiology Department
9 Guest Lecturers: Presentation of clinical problems by the guest lecturer from the Neurology and Physiology Departments
10 Determination of Project subjects (Brainstorming): Determining biodesign needs in the field of Biomedical Engineering and creating relevant project topics
11 Literature and patent search: Listing of biodesign applications and patents in the field of Biomedical Engineering
12 Team work 1 (Brainstorming): Preliminary work in line with the determined project subjects and definition of the problem
13 Team work 2 (Brainstorming): Determining the design methods for the project and developing the suitable concept
14 Team work 3 (Brainstorming): Implementation of the concept developed
15 Project presentations: Presentations of designs developed by groups of up to 3 people
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook: P. G. Yock, S. Zenios, J. Makower, T. J. Brinton, U. N. Kumar, F. T. J. Watkins, L. Denend, T. M. Krummel, C. Q. Kurihara, Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies , 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 110708735X.
Suplemantary Book(s): W. Meyers, P. Antonelli, Biodesign: Nature+Science+Creativity , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018, ISBN: 1633450716.
G. Kokturk, T. D. Altun (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Expansions in Engineering and Design With the Power of Biomimicry , Intech Open Publisher, 2018, ISBN: 978-953-51-3935-5.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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 * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist. Prof. Dr. Gülden Köktürk, gulden.kokturk@deu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aylin Şendemir, Ege University, Dept. of Bioengineering, aylin.sendemir@ege.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 3 24
Tutorials 6 3 18
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 3 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 10 3 30
Other activities within the scope of the atelier pratices 6 8 48
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35555
LO.4554
LO.5455

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