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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - BME6855
Tracking Number - 2078

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2003-05-15
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  1. Date & Time Submitted: 2003-05-16
  2. Department: Chemical Engineering
  3. College: EN
  4. Budget Account Number: 210700000
  5. Contact Person: William E. Lee
  6. Phone: 9742136
  7. Email: lee@eng.usf.edu
  8. Prefix: BME
  9. Number: 6855
  10. Full Title: Biofluid Mechanics and Bioheat Transfer
  11. Credit Hours: 3
  12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
  13. Is the course title variable?: N
  14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
  15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
  16. Is this course repeatable?:
  17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
  18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Biofluid Bioheat
  19. Course Online?: -
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  21. Grading Option: R - Regular
  22. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering or CI
  23. Corequisites: none
  24. Course Description: Analysis and applications of biofluids, including nonNewtonian fluids and particulate systems, and bioheat transfer, including energy balances, heat and temperature regulation, clinical situations, and modeling. Open to nonmajors with CI.

  25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: xxx
  26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? xxx
  27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? xxx
  28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) xxx
  29. Objectives: 1) Detailed examination of rheology, leading up to biorheology2) Analysis of two-phase systems (liquid-particulate, etc.)3) Analysis of representative biological fluids4) Testing techniques of biorheology5) Clinical applications of biorheology6) Energy balances on human subjects7) Experimental techniques related to bioheat transfer8) Clinical applications of bioheat transfer
  30. Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:1) Understand the rheology of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids2) Understand the extension of (1) to biological fluids3) Conceptually perform biorheological test procedures4) Understand the clinical aspects of biorheology5) Understand human energy balances, focusing on heat transfer mechanisms and metabolism6) Conceptually perform heat transfer measurements7) Understand the clinical aspects of bioheat transfer
  31. Major Topics: Part I – Biorheology1) Review of Newtonian fluid mechanics2) Development of nonNewtonian fluid mechanics3) Experimental techniques of rheology4) Extension of rheological concepts to biological fluids5) Two-phase systems (liquid-solid and liquid-gas)6) Clinical biorheology7) Energy balances on human subjects8) Metabolism and basal metabolism rate (BMR)9) Measurement techniques in bioheat transfer10) Factors that influence heat management (pharmaceutical, pain, etc.)11) Clothing, extreme environments, and related topics12) Clinical aspects of bioheat transfer (anesthesiology, extreme environments, etc.)
  32. Textbooks: 1) Understanding rheology (F. Morrison)2) Biological and bioenvironmental heat and mass transfer (A. Datta)
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