436-435 Bioengineering

Unit 1: Bioengineering: Students should gain an understanding of the structure and function of the skeletal, muscular and sensory systems of the human body, insofar as they respond to the forces of impact, vibration and acceleration, biomechanical analysis of the human body, elementary design procedures for sound isolation and protection and some aspects of design for radiation hazards.

Topics covered will comprise a selection from structure and function of the body; effects of force and vibration on the human body; hearing and the auditory environment; vision and illumination; structural and functional biomechanics; and effects and control of ionising radiation.

Unit 2: Bioinformatics: Upon completion students should gain a basic understanding of the hierarchical organisation and information encoding of biological sequence data, use of interdisciplinary technological and computational methods to analyse DNA and protein data of different organisms, and the impact of such developments on the engineering and pharmaceutical industries.

Topics covered will include a selection from biological sequence data modelling; DNA and protein data analysis; motif detection, extraction and interpretation; computational and functional aspects of 3-dimensional protein structures; micro-array technology and clustering; and bio-inspired computing and engineering.

Unit 1: One 1.5-hour test at the end of semester (100%). Unit 2: One 1.5-hour test at the end of semester (70%) and marked project work (30%). Students will be notified of the weighting of the non-examination assessment components at the beginning of semester.