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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2011.32.4.279

Enhanced Undergraduate Software Education Curriculum for Biomedical Engineering: a Proposal for a New Class  

Park, Hyun-Jin (Dept of Biomedical Eng., Gachon Univ of Medicine and Science)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.32, no.4, 2011 , pp. 279-284 More about this Journal
Abstract
Biomedical engineering is a discipline where engineering principles and techniques are applied to the medical field. Biomedical engineering lies between traditional engineering and medicine and is an inter-disciplinary field in its nature. Current Korean undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum is a simple list of traditional engineering courses combined with basic medical/life science courses. There have been efforts to improve biomedical engineering education to reflect its inter-disciplinary nature. Enhanced software course for biomedical engineering is proposed as a part of effort to overhaul the undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. In this newly proposed course, students will learn MATLAB and LabVIEW, which are the most widely used software tools in biomedical engineering.
Keywords
biomedical engineering education; enhanced curriculum; software education;
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