1. Fall semester: Each Fall, Prof. Kothapalli teaches a 4-credit undergraduate core curriculum course BME 301: Analysis of Physiological Systems (3 credits lecture;1 credit Matlab ). This course is similar to Signals and Systems course in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on biomedical signals and analysis. Students learn and apply mathematical, physics, electronics, and programming skills to model/study a physiological system. For example, a cardiovascular system will be modeled as an electrical circuit ( resistors, capacitors, and inductors) and/or a mechanical circuit (mass, spring, dashpot, and frictional elements) and then the resulting transfer function is used to study how the cardiovascular system is affected by different stress inputs. Syllabus for Fall 2019: BME 301 Syllabus_Fall2019_19Oct2019
Students rating for the course: Fall 2017: 4.1/7; Fall 2018: 5.2/7; Fall 2019: 6.4/7
Material for BME 301:
1. Circuits, Signals and Systems for Bioengineers: a MATLAB-Based Introduction, 3rd edition, by John Semmlow, ISBN 978-0-12-8093955-5 © 2017
2. Biomedical Signals and Systems by Joseph V. Tranquillo
3. Signals and Systems Laboratory with MATLAB by Alex Palamides and Anastasia Velonia, CRC Press
4. Mathematical and Computer Modeling of Physiological Systems by Vincent C. Rideout, Prentice Hall, 1991
2. Spring semester: Spring 2019 and Spring 2020: BME 514 Quantitative Microscopy:
Syllabus: Bioe 514-Quantitative-Microscopy-Sp2020-Syllabus
3. Fall and Spring: BME 496 Independent Studies