Transcript Biomedical engineering

Biomedical engineering
Objectives
• Check 210.T/E.4 Present research on
current bioengineering technologies that
advance health and contribute to
improvements in our daily lives.
• SPI 3210.T/E.3 Evaluate the overall
benefit to cost ratio of a new technology
• CLE 3210.4.7 Assess the scientific and
ethical ramifications of emerging genetic
technology
Engineering Design
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/reference/Eng_Design_5-12.html
Challenge Question
• You are a newly married biomedical engineer. Both you and your
spouse want to have children. However, you have discovered that
both of you are carriers for the genetic disorder, Phenolketonuria,
PKU. PKU is a disorder in which the body does not produce the
enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. Without this enzyme, your body
can not properly metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine. Build up
of phenylalanine can cause multiple developmental issues including
mental retardation. Worried that your children might inherit the
disorder, you begin to research treatments and cures. You discover
that the current treatment involves maintaining a strict diet low in
phenyalanine. Though this treatment works, it is complicated to
maintain the strict diet. As a biomedical engineer, you think that
there has to be another option. Is there a way to cure this disorder?
How might you engineer a product that change the course of this
disorder for affected individuals?
Brainstorm: What are
possible answers to the
challenge question?
Things to think about in your
brainstorming session (jot your
answers down in your notebook)
• 1 What do you already know about this
problem?
• 2. What do you need to know better to
understand this problem?
• 3. Where might you look to find answers to
the questions you develop?
Multiple Perspectives
Related news from the experts
Click on the below link and answer
the questions in your lab notebook
• Insulin article
– http://www.med.unigiessen.de/itr/history/inshist.html
• Questions
– What did you learn?
– How does the article relate to the challenge
question?
– Revise question 3 from before:
• Where might you look to find answers to the
questions you develop?
Research and Revise
Using what you have so far:
• Use the internet and research the problem
and how you might be able to solve it!