Active Learning in Mechanics Courses in Biomedical Engineering

Abstract

In the Fall of 1999, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University significantly revised the undergraduate curriculum to both increase the biomedical engineering content and move this BMEN content earlier in the students’ BMEN career. A major component of this revision was the introduction of bridge courses designed to ‘bridge’ from traditional engineering topics to biomedical engineering topics in the major sub-disciplines within biomedical engineering -Bioelectronics, Bioelectricity, Cell & Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, and Biomechanics.