Teaching
BEN422/622 Immune Engineering (Spring)
Immunoengineering describes strategies and technologies that are currently used to modulate and deconvolute the immune process for therapeutic purposes. This course provides an introduction to this exciting field, by covering three main areas: i) fundamentals of immunology, ii) immunology tools and methods, iii) biomaterials engineering for vaccination, immunotherapy, and immunomodulation.
BEN231 Fundamentals of Bioengineering (Fall)
Over the past fifty years, as the discipline of biomedical engineering has evolved, it has become clear that it is a diverse, seemingly all-encompassing field that includes such areas as bioelectric phenomena, bioinformatics, biomaterials, biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, biosensors, biosignal processing, biotechnology, computational biology and complexity, genomics, medical imaging, optics and lasers, radiation imaging, tissue engineering, and moral and ethical issues. Although it is not possible to cover all of the biomedical engineering domains in this course, a concerted effort will be made to focus on most of the major fields of activity in which biomedical engineers are engaged. The class project will help students identify and formulate solutions to a problem found in the biomedical engineering field.