{"ModuleCode":"GEK2505","ModuleTitle":"Introductory Biomedical Engineering","Department":"Biomedical Engineering","ModuleDescription":"This module is designed to provide students with background and general knowledge in bioengineering to stir up their interests in this multidisciplinary field. This module will aim at providing the background and basic knowledge in bioengineering to the students. At the end of this module, the students will: (1) have great appreciation for the breadth of studies in bioengineering; (2) demonstrate a basic understanding of the fundamental aspects of bioengineering; (3) have a focus on the area of their interests as they define their educational goals.Major topics to be covered: tissue engineering, biomaterials, biomechanics, bioinstrumentation and medical imaging","ModuleCredit":"2","Workload":"2-1-0-4-3","Preclusion":"For students from other departments except Division of Bioengineering and students doing Minor in Bioengineering","Types":["GEM"],"Lecturers":["James Kah","Yeow Chen Hua","Mrinal Kanti Musib"],"IVLE":[{"Announcements":null,"Forums":[],"Workbins":[],"Webcasts":[],"Gradebooks":[],"Polls":[],"Multimedia":[],"LessonPlan":[],"ID":"096305fb-161f-4f2c-b7b7-834c2b65097a","CourseLevel":"1","CourseCode":"GEK2505","CourseName":"INTRODUCTORY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING","CourseDepartment":"","CourseSemester":"Semester 4","CourseAcadYear":"2014/2015","CourseOpenDate":"/Date(1424744220000+0800)/","CourseOpenDate_js":"2015-02-24T10:17:00","CourseCloseDate":"/Date(1438358400000+0800)/","CourseCloseDate_js":"2015-08-01T00:00:00","CourseMC":"0","isActive":"Y","Permission":"S","Creator":{"UserID":null,"Name":"James Kah","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"4b081e9e-d301-4e1f-b9ad-c5e82d471d82","AccountType":null},"hasGradebookItems":true,"hasTimetableItems":true,"hasGroupsItems":false,"hasClassGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasGuestRosterItems":false,"hasClassRosterItems":true,"hasWeblinkItems":false,"hasLecturerItems":true,"hasDescriptionItems":true,"hasReadingItems":true,"hasAnnouncementItems":false,"hasProjectGroupItems":false,"hasProjectGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasConsultationItems":false,"hasConsultationSlotsForSignUp":false,"hasLessonPlanItems":false,"Badge":0,"BadgeAnnouncement":0,"WebLinks":[],"Lecturers":[{"ID":"904f64eb-5344-4397-bed1-5d94dc533892","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"James Kah","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"4b081e9e-d301-4e1f-b9ad-c5e82d471d82","AccountType":null},"Role":"Lecturer ","Order":1,"ConsultHrs":null},{"ID":"dea06e4b-6214-412a-b796-9f95771ace6a","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Yeow Chen Hua","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"9cf8dcd0-5b50-47b1-bcc6-c9fb61cde864","AccountType":null},"Role":"Co-Lecturer ","Order":2,"ConsultHrs":null},{"ID":"cddf7eb7-73fc-4ec2-9ac8-5f65dbb98d48","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Mrinal Kanti Musib","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"ff39961f-f806-43e9-a332-4bfd9eaf3d73","AccountType":null},"Role":"Co-Lecturer ","Order":3,"ConsultHrs":null},{"ID":"44fbb070-5793-4802-8798-7b6c4e7ae184","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Alberto Corrias","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"5441b5df-c758-4410-947d-515253e287db","AccountType":null},"Role":"Others ","Order":4,"ConsultHrs":null},{"ID":"ed5dd9de-eb6f-4418-a8e0-9e0d7d535b4a","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Tan B C, Vincent (ME Dept)","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"31ce7afb-0ab1-443e-872f-743cf14d5896","AccountType":null},"Role":"Others ","Order":5,"ConsultHrs":null}],"Descriptions":[{"ID":"1e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Learning Outcomes","Description":"At the end of the module, students should be able to:
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  1. Identify the major domain areas in biomedical engineering.
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  2. Describe the fundamental principles in each subject area of biomedical engineering
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  3. Employ fundamental principles and brainstorming techniques to develop new biomedical engineering ideas
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  4. Propose design solutions to some common problems encountered in biomedical engineering
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  5. Understand and appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of the field and be able to relate it to their previous education and experience.
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\r\n1. Classroom seminar
\r\n2. Dialogues and group discussions
\r\n3. Group project
\r\n4. Hand-on practical
\r\n5. Field visit
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\r\nWe will focus on one of the 5 major topic areas in Biomedical Engineering each week.","Order":3},{"ID":"4e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Schedule","Description":"Lecture: Friday, 9am – 11am (EA-06-02)
\r\nTutorial: Friday, 11am – 12pm (EA-06-02)","Order":4},{"ID":"5e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Synopsis","Description":"Each session will cover one topic. The 2 h teaching session will begin with a lecture to cover the basic principles and concepts in the topic. Students will then be broken into groups for various activities, such as discussion on some of the issues related to the topic, brainstorm on ideas and solutions to existing problems, hands-on practical to try out some basic experiments or field visit. The students will so present their group project at the end of the module. There will be an assessment on that topic after each session.","Order":5},{"ID":"6e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Syllabus","Description":"The module will cover the 5 major topics in Biomedical Engineering, with each topic to be taught in a week.
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\r\n26/06 Wk 1 – Course overview and Biomechanics
\r\n03/07 Wk 2 – Biomaterials
\r\n10/07 Wk 3 – Tissue Engineering
\r\n17/07 Wk 4* – Bioinstrumentation and Medical Imaging
\r\n24/07 Wk 5 – Nanobiotechnology
\r\n31/07 Wk 6 – Final project presentation
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\r\n*17/07 falls on the Hari Raya Puasa public holiday. Class will be re-scheduled in consultation with the students.","Order":6},{"ID":"7e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Practical Work","Description":"Some topics will have practical work where the students will participate in hands-on enrichment exercises or view demonstrations related to the topics taught and also some of the design projects done by Bioengineering undergraduates.
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\r\nThere will also be a group project, where the groups will design and prototype a simple medical device using commonly found household items. At the end of the project, each student will be given 10 min to evaluate their prototype and also a 10 min presentation on their design. The weightage for this project will be 50% towards their final grade.
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\r\nThere will also be a project work (50%) which the students will work on in groups and present on the final week 6. The breakdown of the 50% assessment criteria is as follows:
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  1. Performance 10%
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  2. Creativity 10%
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  3. Asthetic 10%
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  4. Presentation 10%
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  5. Peer assessment 10%
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\r\nBonus will be given to students who take a proactive approach in class participation. More details will be given about what is expected of you will be discussed in the class.","Order":8},{"ID":"ca35e86e-577c-45b1-a117-ea328ab07bd6","Title":"Preclusions","Description":"Students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and students doing Minor in Bioengineering.","Order":9},{"ID":"7c3f0e35-c01c-4f3c-960f-ec5dd566f952","Title":"Workload","Description":"2-1-0-4-3
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\r\nWorkload Components : A-B-C-D-E
\r\nA: no. of lecture hours per week
\r\nB: no. of tutorial hours per week
\r\nC: no. of lab hours per week
\r\nD: no. of hours for projects, assignments, fieldwork etc per week
\r\nE: no. of hours for preparatory work by a student per week","Order":10}],"ReadingFormatted":[{"ID":"3771af7e-edb3-463c-b9a4-3380e238483d","Title":"An introduction to biomaterials","Author":"Scott A. Guelcher, Jeffrey O. Hollinguer","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":1},{"ID":"475a303f-0e8e-44ca-abe3-5704bdf30ec9","Title":"Biomaterial Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine","Author":"Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman, Frederick J. Schoen, Jack E. Lemons","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":2},{"ID":"654ca2c1-4994-4865-b070-a9a19d91f7f6","Title":"Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement","Author":"David Winter","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":3},{"ID":"1072b428-1c0b-47da-adb6-f5cc3e833d31","Title":"Bioinstrumentation","Author":"John G. Webster","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":4},{"ID":"bd29e720-8218-420b-8737-ef11024fc377","Title":"Nanotechnology Demystified","Author":"Linda D. Williams","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":5},{"ID":"d428b054-fd02-48e6-bed1-8460bf11f38e","Title":"Nanotechnology for Dummies","Author":"Richard Booker","Edition":"","PubYear":"","ISBN":"","Publisher":"","BookType":"References","AdditionalInfo":"","CompWebsite":"","Order":6}],"ReadingUnformatted":[]}],"Timetable":[{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Lecture","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Friday","StartTime":"0900","EndTime":"1100","Venue":"EA-06-02"},{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Tutorial","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Friday","StartTime":"1100","EndTime":"1200","Venue":"EA-06-02"}],"LecturePeriods":["Friday Morning"],"TutorialPeriods":["Friday Morning"]}