Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering - (BIOM) -Rafik Hariri University

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering - (BIOM)

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University Requirements (3 cr.)

Humanities/Fine Arts (3 cr.)

ENGL 203 - Introduction to English Drama 3

This course is a study of selected and representative plays of different periods. Added to broadening the student’s understanding and appreciation of literature, The chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 213 - Creative Writing 3

This course introduces students to the process and practice of imaginative writing. Students will read works of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, and will learn techniques for writing in those genres.

ENGL 214 - Introduction to English Poetry 3

This course introduces freshman students to poets whose poetry is of intrinsic literary merit. In addition to broadening the students’ understanding and appreciation of literature, the chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 215 - Introduction to American Literature 3

This is a course which explores the works of major literary figures and authors representing different literary schools from the sixteenth century to modern times. Students will closely examine selected texts as literary achievements and set them within the historical context and framework of American culture. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 220 - Introduction to Literature 3

This course is an introduction to literature through works of fiction, poetry, and drama. It introduces students to the pleasures of reading literature and to interpretative approaches to literature. It aims to provide students with competence in critical thinking and practice in close reading and analysis, knowledge of the formal characteristics of each genre, and appreciation of literary excellence. Readings include a variety of short stories, poems and plays selected from a wide range of British, American and World literature. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 230 - Shakespeare’s Plays 3

In this course, students study representative comedies, histories, and tragedies by Shakespeare. The plays are read intensively and understood in the context of the theatrical conventions of the period and the culture of play going in early modern England, as well as the social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period. Co-requisite: English 210.

FADR 215 - History of Art 3

This course explores the major forms of artistic expression from the ancient world to the present from a variety of cultural perspectives. Students learn how to look at and analyze works of art within their historical context, and how to articulate what they see or experience in a meaningful way. This course covers Pre- Renaissance, Renaissance, Post Renaissance and the rich layers of 19th and 20th Century Modern Art up until the manifestations of our present day.

HIST 210 - History of England 3

This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066 through the present, including political, social and cultural developments. Prerequisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 350 - History of the Arabs in the Classical Period 3

This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with the Arab peoples’ history. The course’s emphasis will be to explain: The early Arab conquests of Bilad al-Sham, Egypt, Persia, North Africa, the internal civil strife inside the early Muslim community, the emergence and development of the Umayyad caliphate, and the emergence and development of the Abbasid Empire. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 360 - Contemporary History 3

This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with contemporary issues in order to enhance their level from historical and cultural points of view. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 365 - History of Europe in the Middle East 3

This course examines the ties between Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the reaction of Middle Eastern societies to European intervention and influence. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 370 - The Economic and Social History of the Middle East 3

This is an elective course whose main objective is to familiarize students with various events that shaped the evolution of social and economic developments of the Middle East to enhance their level from the historical and economical dimensions. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 301 - Major Trends in Philosophy 3

This is a study of some major topics in philosophy. The course emphasizes theory of knowledge, theory of mind, determinism and free will, and morality and ethical values. Along with some assigned readings, students will watch movies, the analysis of which will help them comprehend the content of the course better. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 302 - Introduction to Formal Logic 3

This course is a standard introduction to the formal techniques of argument analysis. Formal logic was invented to mirror and evaluate mathematical reasoning; however, this course will concentrate on the relationship between formal logic and everyday reasoning and consequently language usage in general. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 303 - Introduction to Ethics 3

People often wonder about what makes good ways to live and right ways to act. They also speculate about what is the best way of life, what action is right, and what sort of authority moral claims have over us. The course introduces students to the major moral theories and thinkers that address these types of questions. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 307 - Business Ethics 3

This course is an introduction to contemporary philosophical thinking on ethical issues in business. Students will be exposed to important ethical issues they might face; asked to give sound ethical judgment to problems they might face in their line of work; helped become armed with a set of codes that will prepare them to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas they might encounter at work; and enabled to apply the techniques for analyzing and resolving ethical problems when they arise Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 310 - Philosophers of Peace 3

This course introduces students to peace building and conflict prevention through the examination of the main theories on peace and security. It examines ideas of Thucydides, Aristotle, Erasmus Grotius, Kant, Gandhi and other thinkers for whole peace was a high value. It develops students’ critical skills and understanding necessary to translate their academic learning to specific practical situations, such those posed by peace building either with the UN, governments, or NGOs. It helps to understand the complex and interconnected challenges to peace and provides knowledge to meet these challenges. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

Program Requirements : Mandatory Requirements (48 cr.)

Mandatory requirements (24 cr.)

ENGR 500 - Technopreneurship 3

Venture and innovation opportunities; concept and strategy; the Technopreneur; planning; resource acquisition and organization; financing, marketing and sustainability of enterprise. Prerequisite: ENGR 300. Annually.

CCEE 534 - Signal Processing 2

This course covers time series analysis, frequency analysis, time-frequency and time-scale analysis. It also covers the design of digital filters and signal modeling. Prerequisite: CCEE 231.

ENGR 600 - Engineering Research Methods 3

This course introduces students to quantitative and qualitative methods for engaging in meaningful research. The student, at the end of the course, will attain skills in research intent and design, methodology and technique, format and presentation, and data management. Throughout the course, the student’s ability to use this knowledge to become a more effective researcher will be developed. In particular, the student will be able to develop a hypothesis about a research problem and develop related questions; frame the problem with the correct research methodology; collect data that accurately addresses the research problem; measure the effectiveness of a solution methodology; analyze data to make informed decisions; provide technical documentation of all the phases of a research project; evaluate feasibility of research proposals; and present data to support decisions in front of stakeholders.

BIOM 519 - Advanced Therapeutic Devices 3

This course emphasizes the design of new equipment, patient aid technologies and techniques to help in Healthcare delivery. Design of assistive and rehabilitation devices, recent artificial organs, prosthetics, and specialized accessories for effective patient care are studied. Prerequisite: BIOM 414.

BIOM 522 - Advanced Medical Imaging 3

This course seeks to provide the student with a basic understanding of the concepts of Advanced Biomedical Imaging systems. It consists of dealing with tomographic modalities that result in 3D slices images. The course focuses on the nature of wave, physical principle and instrumentation of each of the three concerned imaging technologies. It applies the interactions of radiation with human tissues and the fundamentals of slice reconstruction systems. Major applications are in Magnetic Resonance, Computed Tomography, Nuclear Medicine, PET and SPECT scans.

Specific topics covered include: Radon; 2DFT, translations, rotations, generations, magnetic moment, spin, relaxations, gradient, superconductivity, sequence, contrast, k-space, resolution, artifacts, scintillation, positron, single photon emission.

Prerequisite: BIOM 421

BIOM 531 - Clinical Engineering 3

This course presents mission and responsibilities of biomedical engineering in Healthcare delivery institutions. Topics include strategic planning and technology assessment, system analysis, quality control, standards and regulations, equipment management, education of medical equipment users, computing applications, and development of patient safety and risk management systems. Prerequisite: BIOM 418.

BIOM 595A - BE Summative Learning Project 1 1

First phase of a team-oriented, project-based experience that culminates in the creation of an artifact; milestones include: project selection and proposal, creative solution, report, presentation, and demonstration of the created device. Prerequisites: ENGL 217.

BIOM 690 - Capstone Research Project 3

A capstone course requiring group work in one of the emphasis areas offered by the Department. The project is to be carried out under the supervision of a full-time faculty member and culminated in a formal written and oral report (refer to college guidelines related to graduation projects structure and content). Prerequisite: Accepted petition to graduate.

BIOM 595B - BE Summative Learning Project 2 3

Second phase of a team-oriented, project-based experience that culminates in the creation of an artifact; milestones include: project selection and proposal, creative solution, report, presentation, and demonstration of the created device. Prerequisite: BIOM 595A.

Technical Electives (24 cr.)

BIOM 402 - Radio Frequency Applications in Biomedical Engineering 3

This course addresses radio frequency design and applications for biomedical engineering and medicine, including circuit elements, equivalent circuits, impedance transformations, Smith Chart, two ports, scattering parameters, amplifiers, resonant circuits, mixers, and receivers. Applications include telemetry, transcutaneous power transfer, hyperthermia, RF ablation, and magnetic resonance imaging. Prerequisite: CCEE 332.

BIOM 418 - Rehabilitation Engineering 3

The design and prescription of prosthetic limbs, orthotic devices, and seating and positioning systems will be discussed in this course. This course covers musculoskelatal anatomy, muscle mechanics, soft tissue mechanics, gait/locomotion, amputation surgery, electromyography, seating and positioning, and assistive devices. Prerequisite: BIOM 414.

BIOM 504 - Bio-Image Processing 3

This course introduces the basic theories and methodologies of digital image processing. Topics include intensity transformations for image enhancement, two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform, spatial and frequency domain linear image filtering, nonlinear image filtering, binary image processing, edge detection, image segmentation, and digital video processing basics. This course makes extensive use of MATLAB as an analysis, design, and visualization tool. Prerequisite: CCEE 332.

BIOM 505 - Computer Simulations for Life Sciences 3

This course describes systems of equations and algorithms implemented in order to simulate dynamic medical processes. It deals with physiological mechanisms of biological organs; consequently it includes studies of mass transfer, circulation and gas exchange, and current transmission models. The course examines modeling techniques based on Matlab/Simulink. Prerequisite: BIOM 414.

BIOM 532 - Biomedical Servicing 3

This course offers an overview of the inspection, corrective and preventive maintenance, calibration, repair, supply management, best practices and accreditation of medical equipment. Prerequisite: BIOM 421.

BIOM533 - Health-care Facility Management 3

This course presents procedures followed for medical and health services management. It covers duties of administrator and his assistants, as well as work flow between staffs of different services and departments. It emphasis on credentials, quality control, human resources, finances, recovery, insurance, sterilization, infection control and health safety procedures. Prerequisite: BIOM 421.

BIOM 611 - Interventional Treatment Systems 3

This course introduces students to the contributions of technology to direct disease treatment. It highlights the need for reliable technology development for surgical suite healthcare interface. The emphasis will be on assessing the wide variety of technologies that have made surgical procedures more reliable, less traumatic, and shorter in duration, as well as understanding materials know-how advances that lead to the development of technologies allowing minimally invasive treatment of a variety of diseases. Covered topics include: anesthesia/monitoring devices, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, spontaneous activity, angioplasty, stents, embolic filters, cardiac ablation catheters, stereotactic procedures and clinical applications. Prerequisite: BIOM 414.

BIOM 612 - Emerging Techniques in Healthcare 3

This course introduces students to new treatment and diagnosis strategies, as well as new applications of existing technologies, have emerged wide range of ideas as case studies in innovation. It highlights the factors determining the degree to which these techniques become accepted. The emphasis will be on proving the efficacy of the emerging medical technologies. Covered topics include: hyperbaric oxygen therapy, indications and outcomes for hyperbaric oxygen treatment, delivery strategies for image-guided thermal therapy, electrotherapy, hearing and audiologic assessment, pure-tone audiometry, speech recognition testing, spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAE), immittance audiometry, slit lamp, opthalmology sets, ear, nose and throat (ENT) devices. Prerequisite: BIOM 417.

BIOM 613 - Human Performance Engineering 3

This course describes concepts, methods, and tools that strive toward treatment of each of specific areas with the engineering rigor that is routinely applied to artificial systems. It emphasizes on the evaluation of an individual's performance capacities; the design of assistive devices and the design of operator interfaces for medical instruments. Importance is thus placed on combination of cause-and-effect and statistical models, measurements of varying degrees of sophistication that are selected to fit needs of a particular circumstance, and various types of analyses. Covered topics include: gait analysis, neuromuscular functional unit, range of motion and extremes of motion, endurance, reliability, limitations, analysis of sensory-motor control performance, measurement instruments and procedures, models of human mental processing and performance, physical task analysis. Prerequisite: BIOM 530.

BIOM 621 - Cardiovascular Explorations and Angiographic Procedures 3

This course describes interaction between biomechanics and medical imaging disciples through discussion of various imaging modalities and techniques used for the diagnosis for heart and vessel complications. It emphasizes on the study of blood flow, investigation of vessels properties, assessment of arteries dimensions and obstructions as well as monitoring of injected catheters and/or stents. The interests and principles of non-invasive methods such as Ultrasound and NMR will be detailed also purposes of X-ray based interventional imaging systems will be presented. Covered topics include: Colored Doppler, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac Function, Atherosclerosis, Carotid Bifurcation, Brain Perfusion, Fluoroscopy, contrast agents. Prerequisite: BIOM 522.

BIOM 622 - MRI Research and Innovations 3

This course introduces students to the latest improvement in diagnosis and health care follow-up using magnetic resonance imaging systems. The emphasis will be on presenting MR sequence engineering applications in divers medical fields, as well as discussing MR based spectroscopy principles and objectives. The MR safety, complications, artifacts definition, limitations and associated proposed solutions will be detailed. Covered topics include: Fast Spin Echo, FLAIR, Time of flight, Diffusion Weighted Imaging, Parallel Imaging, Magneto hydrodynamics, Magnetic susceptibility, aliasing, saturation. Prerequisite: BIOM 522.

BIOM 623 - Functional and Molecular Imaging 3

This course introduces student to in vivo characterization of biological processes at the cellular and molecular level, and visualization of in vivo physiologic or biochemical processes achieved with different imaging modalities, mostly MRI, PET and SPECT. The course will highlight increasing attention this type of imaging has received in recent years because imaging the distribution of targeted molecules allows the tracking of biochemical processes before their physiological consequences appear. Several applications in neurological studies and cardiovascular explorations are to be described. Covered topics include: Kinetic modeling, parametric imaging, glucose metabolism, radioactive tracer, regional cerebral blood flow, regional cerebral oxygen extraction fraction (rCOEF), and the arterial oxygen concentration (CaO2). Prerequisite: BIOM 522 and BIOM 530.

BIOM 631 - Risk Management 3

This course describes deep roots inside health care of the organized effort to identify, assess, and reduce physical and financial risk to patients, staff, and business. The emphasis will be on new initiatives by international regulatory agencies to inject risk management techniques into the development and use of medical devices. Also the course will discuss the risk management model, process, steps, regulations, assessment and identification. Covered topics include: Enterprise risk, Total quality management (TQM), Performance improvement (PI), Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), Corrective and preventive action (CAPA), Risk analysis–ISO/IEC 14971, Root cause analysis (RCA).

BIOM 632 - Health-care Facility Management 3

BIOM 633 - Medical Technology & Ethics 3

This course introduces students to the ethical dilemmas and challenges that have emerged with the positive outcomes of biomedical engineering regarding its responsibility in developing new treatment modalities that have significantly improved medical care, the quality of life for patients. The course will stress on the involvement of humans in clinical research, the definition of death and the issue of euthanasia, the animal experimentation and human trials for new medical devices, the patient access to sophisticated and high cost medical technology, and the regulation of new biomaterials and devices. Covered topics include: professions, sources of professional ethics, professional integrity, responsibility, code, euthanasia, animal experimentation, regulation of medical device innovation, ethical issues in emergency use, ethical issues in treatment use, the safe medical devices act. Prerequisite: BIOM 531.

BIOM 651 - Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence 3

This course describes the growth of bioinformatics field, its complexity and content. It will consist of two parts. The first defined as none artificial intelligence decision making and devoted to areas that form a key “core” of computer technologies such as hospital information systems (HIS), computer-based patient records (CPR), communications and standards. The second parts correspond to artificial intelligence based topics containing expert systems, knowledge-based systems neural networks. Covered topics include: Patient Database Strategies, Patient Management, Clinical Decision Support Systems, and Computer Networks in Health Care, HL7, PACS, Decision Theoretic Models, Statistical Models, Decision Making, Artificial Neural Networks, Training Algorithms, Clinical Decision Systems, and Expert System Process Model.

BIOM 652 - Bio-computation 3

This course refers to several areas of research at the boundary between computation and biology. The emphasis will be on computational biology, natural computing via use of naturally inspired computing models to solve mathematical problems, and the attempt to exploit biomolecules and cells to perform computations. It will focus on DNA computing, in which one uses DNA molecules and their interactions to perform computations, as well as recent promising models such as membrane computing. Covered topics include: DNA sequencing, Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Adleman’s experiment, Stranded DNA, DNA computing on surfaces, Genomic data base and Bio-computational Models.

BIOM 653 - Biometrics 3

This course deals with the automatic recognition of individuals based on statistical analysis of physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. The emphasis will be on biometric characteristic defined as human physiological or behavioral characteristic that is unique, universal, stable, and collectable. Covered topics include: biometric system structure, verification system, identification system, feature extraction, matching, decision, performance evaluation, finger print, palm print, face, iris, hand vein thermogram, DNA, ear, odor, etc.…

BIOM 641 - Prostheses 3

This course describes fundamentals of substitutive medicine. It stresses on the interest of an engineered device or the transplantation of organs, tissues, or cells ability to substitute for most of organs and body functions. Highlight on categories, types, nature and principles of different artificial organs will be given. Covered topics include: Heart Valve Prostheses, Vascular Grafts, Hyperplasia, Graft Infections Liver Support Systems, Nerve Guidance Channels, ENT Replacement Devices, Artificial Blood, and artificial skin. Prerequisite: BIOM 519.

BIOM 642 - Transport Phenomena 3

The intention of this course is to couple the concepts of transport phenomena with chemical reaction kinetics and thermodynamics to introduce the field of reaction engineering. It encompasses the subjects of momentum transport (viscous flow), energy transport (heat conduction, convection, and radiation), and mass transport (diffusion). The media in which the transport occurs is regarded as continua; however, some molecular explanations are discussed. The continuum approach is of more immediate interest to engineers, but both approaches are required to thoroughly master the subject. Covered topics include: Microvascular Heat Transfer, Interstitial Transport in the Brain, Arterial Wall Mass Transport, and Concepts of Biomimicry. Prerequisite: BIOM 542.

BIOM 643 - Genetic and Tissue Engineering 3

This course introduces students to the unprecedented insight into the inner workings of the most basic structures of living tissues due to the information revealed by revolutionary undertakings, such as the human genome project. The attention will be focused on manipulating molecular architecture structures for therapeutic purposes. It will describe the techniques that have been developed to transplant genetic material into a variety of living tissues. Also, will be discussed the ability of affecting the future of many areas of disease treatment by developments in the field of tissue engineering. Covered topics include: transgenic animals, DNA microinjection, embryonic stem (ES) cell technology, cloning, tissue regeneration, fluid-induced shear, micropipette aspiration, chondrocytes, scaffold materials, protein coating. Prerequisite: BIOM 416.

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