
Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering, including physiology, instrumentation, signals and imaging, biomechanics, and biomaterials, through notes, examples, and practice problems.
Trace the origins of biomedical engineering from early 20th century medical revolutions to its emergence as a distinct field, driven by advances in chemistry, physiology, and medical devices.
Explore the basics of anatomy and physiology and their role in biomedical engineering. Learn anatomical positions, planes, directional terms, and common body movements described in the lecture.
Explore the nervous system’s central and peripheral divisions, brain and spinal cord, neuron signaling, afferent and efferent nerves, and the autonomic system’s sympathetic and parasympathetic regulation.
Explore how sensors and circuits generate signals processed through analog and digital stages, stored, transmitted, and used for control, feedback, and display to monitor patient health.
Explore temperature measurement with thermistors and thermocouples, emphasizing fast, small probes for in vivo use and blood flow assessment via catheter, plus reference junctions for absolute temperature.
Extract biosignals by transforming raw data into a compact feature set across time, frequency, and joint time-frequency domains, while adaptive filters and linear predictive coding reduce noise.
Explore wavelet analysis, breaking signals into shifted and scaled components with non-sinusoidal wavelets, revealing time and frequency insights for compression, EEG/EMG analysis, speech, and gait.
Explore how classification in biomedical signal processing groups patient data by extracted features, using decision support systems and AI methods like support vector machines and neural networks.
Explore ultrasound imaging, a real-time, radiation-free method using piezoelectric crystals to emit and receive high-frequency sound waves for safe, dynamic tissue visualization and Doppler blood flow assessment.
Biomechanics blends biology and mechanics to explain how forces move the living body, using rigid, fluid, and deformable mechanics to study skeletal and muscular systems and prevent injury.
Explore rigid body mechanics to model motion with simplified limbs and joints. Examine fluid mechanics of air and blood and deformable mechanics to relate stress, strain, injuries, and prosthesis.
Explore ceramic biomaterials with high compressive strength and low electrical and thermal conductivity, used in bone replacements, dental crowns, and heart valves, including inert, bioactive, and degradable ceramics.
Explore composite biomaterials formed by combining two or more phases to tailor properties. Learn how shape, volume, interface, and orientation affect strength, flexibility, and performance in bone and cartilage.
Welcome to the Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course, brought to you by Rahsoft. In this course we will be going over the basics and fundamentals of biomedical engineering, as well as in-depth examples and explanations of concepts to give you a better understanding of the field. The course is taught by Dennis Fer, a Biomedical Engineering Instructor at Rahsoft, and the course advisor is Ahsan Ghoncheh, the Co-Founder and Technical Advisor at Rahsoft.
We will be presenting this information to you in a way that is simple and easy to understand! Our course is aimed for anyone who is interested in learning more about biomedical engineering, how the field continues to grow, and the various concepts within the field that give you a better understanding of what biomedical engineering is. Throughout the course, you will be given examples and explanations in order to not only allow you expand your knowledge on the material covered, but also to test what you learned in a way that is stress-free and effective!
The course will begin with some basics in biomedical engineering and its history, followed by more in-depth looks into the anatomy and physiology of the human body. We will then look into basic biomedical instrumentation tools, as well as signal processing methods that allow for the data to be extracted and analyzed. Next, we’ll look into various imaging techniques, and then shift our focus into the basic concepts regarding the movement of the body, or biomechanics. Lastly, we will have an overarching look into biomaterials, which is the study of various materials that are used in a biomedical setting.
I want to thank you for choosing Rahsoft to teach you over this subject, and we will do everything we can to meet your needs and go further beyond. We are excited to help teach you more about the field of Biomedical Engineering, and help you learn more and achieve your goals. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us and we’ll be happy to help! Hope to see you soon, when you decide to take the course.
Introduction to Biomedical Engineering is an Entry Level Course for people with no background in the Biomedical Engineering industry to have a crash course on fundamental topics existing in this broad field. This course is not intended to go deep into all topics as that would takes years of classes but would concentrate on fundamental subjects in each topic of Biomedical Engineering. At the end of this course you would know fundamental topics spoken in the industry, major companies as well as different fields and jobs in the Biomedical Engineering industry.
We are constantly updating the course to have the below chapters.
In this course the you we will not go into details but go over top level information needed for anyone who is interested in the Biomedical topic to understand different concentrations and topics on top level that exist in the field. We plan to create future courses based on student enrollment on the course and go into more details on the topics we are discussing in this course.
This course was available for enrollment before but due to student feedback on the audio we ended up redoing the audio as well as the slides to give the students a better learning experienc e
Topics below are discussed in this course on basic level
Introduction to Anatomy
Introduction to Bioinstrumentation
Introduction of the signal processing
Introduction to Biomedical Image Processing
Introduction to Biomechanics
Introduction to Biomaterials