Academics / Courses / DescriptionsBME 308-0-01: Biomedical Signals and Circuits (1.25 units)
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Prerequisites
PHYSICS 135-2 or consent of instructor; BMD_ENG 207 (can be taken concurrently).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.