COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIK 0531 ARTIFICIAL ORGANS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SINAN AKGÖL

Offered to

Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies
Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

This lesson aims to teach artificial organ technology and application of synthetic biomaterials that are used in artificial organ modelling.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning about synthetic materials used in medicine
2   Familiaraising with general organ characteristics and artificial organ approaches.
3   Catching up with innovations in synthetic biomaterials and evalvating them.
4   Designing alternative biomaterials.
5   Getting up-to-date information about artificial organ technology.
6   Analysing and comparing/contrasting the advantages and disadvantages of methods used in artificial organ technology.
7   Understanding and evaluating research findings in the concerned issue.
8   Following contemporary findings/results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and ve rising of artifical organs, history of artifical organs
2 Usage of synthetic biomaterials on artifical organs
3 Kidney diseases and application of artifical kidney
4 Heart diseases and experiment of artifical heart. LVAD (Left Ventrical Assist Devices). TAH (Total Artificial Hearts).
5 Liver diseases. Bio-artifical liver systems which using living cell. Filter based systems. Chronical respiration diseases. Extracorporal membrane oxygenators, ECMO. Applications of artifical lungs.
6 Diabetis mellitus. Implantable insulin pomps which can release insulin. Artifical pancreas.
7 Functions of blood. Blood groups. Main characteristics of compounds which could substitute blood. Applications of artifical blood. Emulsion of perfluorocarbon (PFC). Haemoglobin based oxygen carriers.
8 Midterm
9 Eye diseases. Retinal transplantation and application of artifical eye.
10 Hear diseases. Artifical ear studies.
11 Structure of skin. Advantages and disadvantages of skin transplantation. Application of artifical skin.
12 Structures and functions of muscels. Artifical muscle systems.
13 Usage of synthetic biomaterials on medicine.
14 Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Julian R. Jones,. Biomaterials, Artificial Organs and Tissue Engineering (Kindle Edition) . CRC Press. Taylor&Francis Group. 2007, USA. Joseph D. Bronzino, Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs (The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition) , CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group, 2006, USA. Gerald Miller, Artificial Organs (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering) , Morgan & Claypool Publishers; 1 edition (July 1, 2006). USA.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Project and exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Reading 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 2 2 4
Design Project 2 10 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 205

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.13433334
LO.234
LO.354
LO.453
LO.55
LO.645
LO.732
LO.8143

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