24-636 Energy Applications in Biology and Medicine
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course covers a wide range of energybased applications in biology and medicine, such as cancer treatments by cryosurgery freezing, thermal ablation heating, photodynamic therapy lightactivated drugs, and irreversible electroporation a nonthermal electrical application. This course also covers thermal regulation in humans and other mammals, as well as cryopreservation lowtemperature preservation of tissues and organs for the benefit of organ banking and transplant medicine. The course combines lectures and individual assignments relating to the underlying principles of engineering, with teamwork on openended projects relating to concurrent challenges at the convergence of engineering and medical sciences. The course plan assumes a mastery of the fundamentals of heat transfer at the undergraduate level
Prerequisites: 24-322
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