Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research (대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지)

The Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
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Enhanced Undergraduate Software Education Curriculum for Biomedical Engineering: a Proposal for a New Class

개선된 학부 의공학 소프트웨어 교육과정을 위한 새로운 과목의 제안

  • Park, Hyun-Jin (Dept of Biomedical Eng., Gachon Univ of Medicine and Science)
  • 박현진 (가천의과학대학교 의공학과)
  • Received : 2011.04.14
  • Accepted : 2011.07.20
  • Published : 2011.12.30
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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.

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