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The updated edition of this popular textbook offers an overview of the major components of the field, including signal processing in bio-systems, biomechanics, and biomaterials. Introducing capstone design and entrepreneurship, the second edition examines basic engineering, anatomy, and physiology concepts to facilitate an in-depth and up-to-date understanding of flow, transport, and mechanics in biological systems and the human body. The book begins by addressing the principles of conservation of mass and development of mathematical models of physiological processes with detailed examples appropriate for an engineering student at the sophomore or first semester junior level.
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Ritter (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey), Stanley Reisman (New Jersey Institute of Technology), and Bozena B. Michniak (U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and New Jersey Center for Biomaterials) introduce biomedical engineering to students with undergraduate training in engineering, physics, and mathematics, but perhaps no more than a passing acquaintance with molecular biology, physiology, biochemistry, and signals processing. They indicate chapters they consider suitable for a well-balanced three-semester-hour undergraduate course, but provide considerably additional material to allow instructors to tailor courses to specific groups of students. Responding to what they see as the current demand in the biomedical sciences, they put more emphasis on understanding basic mechanisms and problem solving than on empiricism and factual recall. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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