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BME 308-0-60: Biomedical Signals and Circuits (Lab)

Quarter Offered

Spring : M 4:00-5:50p, W 4:4:50p ; Rivnay

Prerequisites

PHYSICS 135-2 or consent of instructor.

Description

This course focuses on hands-on skills of electrical circuit analysis, electronics, and signal processing designed for biomedical engineering students. This is the first course in the biomedical signal processing series.

Who takes it?

This course is designed for BME juniors.

Mini-Syllabus

Basic concepts of circuit analysis
Resistive circuits
Nodal analysis and loop analysis
Op-Amp
Capacitor, inductor, and transistor
AC circuits and power analysis
EKG principle and acquisition
Fourier transform
Filtering, bandwidth, sampling, and aliasing

Required Class Materials

Customized Engineering Circuit Analysis, by J. David Irwin & R. Mark Nelms, Wiley

Suggested Class Materials

Electronics out of the Lab, Michael Peshkin, Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering.

Teaching Methods

Every student will need to obtain an electronics kit specifically designed by Northwestern University faculty members for this courses.