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If you are interested in joining our nonmagnetic biosensors & devices group, here is a list of courses that you might want to take for your graduate/undergraduate study:

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For graduate students

• Core courses:

ECE 5314 - Solid State Devices 

Semiconductor materials and band theory of solids. Physics of semiconductor devices, charge transport, PN junctions, diodes, bipolar junction transistors, optoelectronic devices, and MOS devices.

ECE 5348 - Computational Electromagnetics

Computational electromagnetics in guided-wave structures, wave scattering, and radiation. Emphasizes finite difference time domain and frequency domain methods and moment methods.

ECE 5350 - Introduction to Medical Instrumentation

Biomedical instrumentation, transducers, signals, circuits and filters, utilization of biopotential techniques in respiration, cardiac, and audiology.

ECE 5351 - Biomedical Signal Processing

An overview of conventional and modern signal Fundamentals of solid-state radiation detectors and sensors, including principles, performances, and applications. techniques and their applications taught in the context of biomedical signals and signal models.

ECE 5352 - Medical Imaging

Medical imaging techniques including radiography and ionizing radiation, computer aided tomography, PET, MRI, and image reconstruction and processing techniques.

ECE 5356 - Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Biosensors and semiconductor devices, cells, and other biomaterials. Bio-Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (Bio-MEMS) and low-power wearable/implantable medical devices.

ECE 5358 - Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization

Introduction to the physical principles and techniques involved with the semiconductor processing of different electronic and optoelectronic devices.

ECE 5393 - Detectors and Sensors I

Fundamentals of solid-state photo detectors and sensors for THz through EVU, including principles, performances, and applications.

ECE 5394 - Detectors and Sensors II

Fundamentals of solid-state radiation detectors and sensors, including principles, performances, and applications.

• Elective courses:

ECE 5321 - Design and Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits

Principles involved in designing analog integrated circuits. Device physics, small signal, and large signal models. Biasing and basic circuit building blocks. Applications.

ECE 5322 - Random Signals and Systems

Modeling and analysis of uncertainty or randomness; applying probability, random variables, and random processes to a variety of applications.

ECE 5346 - Plasma Engineering: An Introductory Course in Plasma Physics and Technology

Fundamentals of plasma physics and technology, including gas discharge processes, plasma surface treatment, role of non-thermal plasmas, material processing, and biomedical treatment.

ECE 5364 - Digital Signal Processing

An introduction to digital signal processing. Sampling, z-transform, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, flowgraphs, design techniques for digital filters, effects of finite word length and applications.

ECE 5367 - Image Processing

Imaging fundamentals. Linear operators in spatial and spatial-frequency domains. Image enhancement and restoration techniques. Analysis and coding of images.

ECE 5390 - Functional Materials

Introduction to functional materials and their applications, including sustainability, bio-inspired materials, and nano-structured materials.

CHE 5315 - Experimental Techniques in Fluid Dynamics

Experimental techniques for fluid dynamics, including flow visualization, fluid characterization, image processing and analysis. Analytical modeling and statistical treatment of experimental data. Significant laboratory component.

CHE 5366 - Biomicrofluidics

Fluid phenomena at small scales. Science and engineering of miniaturized lab-on-chip devices for applications in chemical, biomolecular, and cellular analysis.

CHE 5341 - Polymer Chemistry and Processing

Polymerization reactions, mechanisms, and kinetics, large-scale synthesis, scope of polymer processing, and fabrication technology.

ME 5358 - Biomaterials

Prerequisite: Materials Science. Develops an understanding of structure and manufacturing-dependent properties for both synthetic and natural biomaterials used in biomedical engineering.

ME 5360 - Bio-Fluid Mechanics

Teaches fundamentals of blood flow mechanics, blood rheology, blood vessel tissue mechanics, blood flow measurements, cardiovascular disease and therapeutic techniques related to blood flow, hemodynamics in main organs, and airflow in the airway.

CS 5311 - Programming with R for Data Analysis and Machine Learning

A hands-on exploration of R programming including its applications in data analytics and machine learning in various application domains for science, business and engineering students.

 

For undergraduate students

• Core courses:

ECE 3311 - Electronics I

Introduction to electronic devices, amplifiers, and electronic systems. Principles of electronic circuit design and analysis.

ECE 3312 - Electronics II

For majors only or departmental consent. Analysis and design of special-purpose amplifiers and oscillators.

ECE 3341 - Electromagnetic Theory I

For majors only or departmental consent. Vector analysis. Partial differential equations. General treatment of static, electric, and magnetic fields from the vector viewpoint.

ECE 3342 - Electromagnetic Theory II

For majors only or departmental consent General solutions for Maxwell’s equations. Traveling waves in scalar media. Boundary conditions and constraints imposed by bounding surfaces.

ECE 4364 - Digital Signal Processing

An introduction to digital signal processing. Sampling, z-transform, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, flowgraphs, design techniques for digital filters, effects of finite word length, and applications.

• Elective courses:

ECE 4314 - Solid State Devices

Principles and properties of semiconductor devices and optical devices. Thyristors and other switches. Integrated circuit devices. Device modeling.

ECE 4367 - Image Processing

Linear operations in both spatial and frequency domains. Image enhancement and restoration techniques. Analysis and coding of images.

CHE 4363 - Biochemical Engineering

Introduction to biochemical engineering, including design of processes that involve biological organisms; cellular, molecular and tissue engineering; biomaterials and biotransport.

CHE 4366 - Biomicrofluidics

Fluid phenomena at small scales. Science and engineering of miniaturized lab-on-chip devices for applications in chemical, biomolecular, and cellular analysis.

BIOE 3202 - Bioinstrumentation and Bioinformatics Laboratory

Covers laboratory topics strongly related to chemical and biological engineering background, including tissue engineering, microscopy, industrial biotechnology, and drug design.

BIOE 4301 - Bioengineering System Design

Covers systematic design processes, engineering economics, FDA requirements, safety engineering ethics, design failures, and sustainability through the design of biomedical and biotechnological devices.