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George P. Chatzimavroudis, Ph.D. Interim Associate Dean of Operations, Fenn College of Engineering & Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
· ESC 151 - ANSI C: Fundamentals of scientific and engineering problem-solving using computers; covers ANSI C and concepts of accuracy and efficiency in programming solutions to engineering problems.
· ESC 301 - Fluid Mechanics: Study of fluid properties, hydrostatics, friction loss, dimensional analysis, statics and dynamics of compressible and incompressible fluids; continuity, energy, and momentum principles; laminar and turbulent flow; general concepts of boundary layer flow.
· CHE 306 - Transport Phenomena: Formulation of the physical laws of momentum, heat, and mass transport, with emphasis on their interrelationship; application of these principles to basic transport processes; diffusive and convective transport mechanisms.
Graduate Courses
· CHE 506 - Advanced Transport Phenomena: The fundamentals theories governing momentum, energy, and mass transport are studied with an emphasis on investigating the analogies between them.
· CHE 659/759 - Medical Imaging: Introduction to tomographic reconstruction; Physics and principles of X-rays, ultrasound, radionuclide imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging; Description of data acquisition and image analysis techniques; Clinical applications of MRI, CT, SPECT, PET, and Doppler ultrasound; Clinical tours (co-taught by Dr. Randolph Setser and Dr. Sandra Halliburton).
· CHE 651/751 - Biomechanical Engineering: Introduction to blood flow dynamics; physiology and mechanics of the heart, arteries and veins; heart valve disease; congenital heart disease; artificial heart valves; muscle, bone, cartilage, joint, and foot mechanics; musculoskeletal disorders and bone fractures; human movement and kinematics; joint replacements and amputee biomechanics/artificial limbs; soft tissue – tendon and ligaments; skin, diabetes, and biomechanics (co-taught by Dr. Ranolph Setser). ESC 794 Biomedical Signal Processing (3 credit hours). Signals and biomedical signal processing. The Fourier transform. Image filtering, enhancement, and restoration. Edge detection and image segmentation. Wavelet transform. Clustering and classification. Processing of biomedical signals. Processing of biomedical images.
· CHE 670/770, ESC 694/794 - Biomedical Signal Processing: Signals and biomedical signal processing. The Fourier transform. Image filtering, enhancement, and restoration. Edge detection and image segmentation. Wavelet transform. Clustering and classification. Processing of biomedical signals. Processing of biomedical images.
· Biofluid Mechanics: Principles of blood flow in the heart, arteries, and veins; emphasis on the effects of flow pulsatility, vessel geometry, and rheological characteristics of blood on the flow patterns and on the interaction of blood with vessel wall; overview of blood flow-related cardiovascular disease; laboratory and clinical techniques to measure blood flow.
· Experimental Methods in Biomedical Engineering: "Reality checks” in experimentation and uncertainty methods; Signal versus noise, Nyquist sampling frequency, and data filtering; factor analysis and power analyses; samples and populations, random sampling, and probability; binomial distribution, normal distribution, and sampling distributions; confidence intervals and test of hypothesis; Comparison of two independent variables, of paired samples, of categorical data, and of more than two populations; linear regression and correlation (co-taught by Dr. Brian Davis).
Last update on August 21, 2009 by George Chatzimavroudis
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