Singapore

The module aims to introduce students to the principles of biomechanics in performing force analysis of the human musculoskeletal system; give an appreciation of the musculoskeletal system in producing body movements and functions; apply the fundamentals of biomechanics in analysing musculoskeletal disorders in areas such as orthopaedics, occupational health and sports.

This module will present fundamental transport solutions which model the major features of biological flow. The conservation of mass, momentum, and energy in a system will be studied and applied to blood flows in the cardiovascular system. Basic knowledge of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics will also be covered. Bifurcation flow and Hemorheology in macrocirculation and microcirculation will be discussed. Mass transfer will be introduced to the students for applications in drug delivery, dialysis devices and bioreactors.

At the end of this course, students are expected to be able to:
Draw free body diagrams and identify unknown reaction forces and moments.
Solve statically determinate problems involving rigid bodies, pin-jointed structures.
Understand the concepts of engineering stress, strain and materials behaviour.
Determine the load distributions and corresponding stresses and strains in structures under tension, compression, torsion and bending.
Design structures to prevent failure including buckling.
Describe the anatomical structures of the major joints and spine of a human body and relate to body movement and functions
Analyze the kinematics & kinetics of human movement.
Explain the time dependent behavior of human movement.

This module is the first of a set of two modules: Engineering Principle and Practice I and II (EPP I and EPP II). EPP modules aim to introduce first year students to the biomedical engineer’s way of thinking and addressing problems. A real-life medical technology will be used to demonstrate the fundamental knowledge and skills that a biomedical engineer is expected to possess.

The overarching theme of the module is the role of biomedical engineering in supporting life. This means that we will be looking at fundamental engineering skills that are needed to solve common real-life BME problems in the broad area of life support. The course is roughly divided in three sections: design, solid mechanics and fluid mechanics.

In the medical device industry, like in most industries nowadays, engineers are required to be capable communicators in written and oral form. For this reason, training in communication is part of our idea of engineering principles and practice. We have therefore included a specific component in this course with the specific aim of giving you the basic skills of an effective communicator. Staff from the Center of English Language and Communication (CELC) will be sharing their vast experience in this area.

This module focuses on engineering materials – metals and ceramics. Crystalline structure of important industrial metals and ceramics. Mineral processing and materials fabrication. Phase formation and development and microstructure optimization for engineering applications.

•Be able to describe and apply key engineering and biology concepts
•Be able to explain and apply design principles for synthetic gene devices and system design
•Be able to derive the appropriate logic function for a given genetic logic circuit or design one based on given the truth table
•Be able to model genetic circuits.
•Have an understanding of various experimental characterization techniques
•Describe different applications in engineering biology and appreciate the societal impact

Cellular engineering is the science of making practical applications of the knowledge of cell biology in the construction of genetically modified organisms, large scale production of recombinant human proteins, as well as production of cells and cellular products (e.g. proteins, microsomes, antibodies) as therapeutics for various human diseases. The course requires students to have a good understanding of key cellular processes in the transmission of genetic information encoded in DNA to functional proteins as well as the regulatory mechanisms that enable cells to produce a huge diversity of functional products from a fixed and limited genome. The ability to engineer cells to make useful products for human leverages on different technologies to manipulate these regulatory processes, which will be covered in this course.

This module aims at providing students with some fundamental data analysis skills. The broad topics were chosen based on a survey of the Singapore biomedical engineering industry. In the survey, industry representatives were asked to rate the importance of certain data analysis topics as desirable knowledge by prospective employees.

This module covers the theory, operating principles, and basic function of solar cells and photovoltaic modules. Major topics covered are the status of the PV market, the properties of sunlight, properties of semiconductors, efficiency limits of solar cells, carrier properties in semiconductors, currents in p-n diodes in the dark and under illumination, computer simulation of solar cells, characterisation of solar cells, technology of silicon wafer solar cells, technology of thin-film solar cells, properties of interconnected solar cells, technology of PV modules, and the characterisation and testing of PV modules

Radio and microwave systems rely on efficient transmission and distribution of electromagnetic (EM) energy. Radio and microwave systems need to be immune from external EM interference and need to ensure that they do not cause interference of their own. To achieve these requirements, this module will equip and foster the students with balanced and particularly more hands-on oriented contents on radio frequency (RF) designs and practical systems, through live experiments, software learning, and real-life RF examples. Topics covered: transmission systems, resonator cavity, impedance matching network, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and shielding, multi-port scattering and corresponding measurement methods, radiation, and antenna characterizations.