CE40246: Healthcare engineering
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
- Assess available technologies and identify their limitations for a given healthcare application (A2, A6d) [CLO: I3]
- Choose and apply appropriate techniques and information to design the product, tool or device (A2, A6b) [CLO: P2]
- Relate information from other disciplines to the choice of technology and design (A6f) [CLO: P1]
- Compare, recommend and justify the choice of technology for a given healthcare application (A2, A6d) [CLO: I2]
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| Aims: | This unit is concerned with technologies for healthcare covering all aspects of healthy living (for example, biomedical devices for health monitoring and therapeutics, regenerative medicine and future food sources) and the role that chemical engineers play in developing new technologies and treatments. You will study applications across the scales from nano to macro for whole system design with the goal of designing healthcare technologies that achieve triple bottom line performance.
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| Skills: | - Analysis (T,F,A)
- Data acquisition and interpretation (T,F,A)
- Problem-solving (T,F,A)
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| Content: | Specific topics could include:
- Review of basic human cell biology.
- Basic principles of cell adhesion, migration, and signalling pathways.
- Control of cell function by the extracellular matrix and soluble growth factors (tissue microenvironments).
- Stem cell engineering.
- Scaffolds/substrates design and characterization
- Cellular and acellular therapies for regenerative medicine
- Fluid mechanics and mass transfer for healthcare applications.
- Design of enzyme-based biodevices for healthcare applications
- Bioreactor, biodevices, and bioprocess design for healthcare applications.
- Mathematical models for bioreactor and biodevice design.
This unit utilizes a combination of problem classes, traditional lectures, workshops, plus pair- and small-group working.
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| Course availability: |
CE40246 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Chemical Engineering
- UECE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 4)
- UECE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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