Bioengineering

This course is for fourth-year students in the biomedical engineering major or adjacent majors. The course includes a series of expert guest speakers who are actively conducting reearch in diverse areas of biomedical engineering. Students gain exposure to a wide range of research and research methodologies. 

This course introduces biomedical instruments and their working principles. Topics include basic concepts of medical instrumentation, basic sensors and transducers, amplifiers and signal processing, and basic physiology related to each measurement.

This course is designed for students with no prior experience of thinking in a computational manner. Students examine computational thinking as a problem-solving process with the aid of a computer, i.e. formulating a problem and expressing its solution in such a way that a computer can effectively carry it out. By the end of the course, students will be able to derive simple algorithms and code the programs to solve some basic problems in the bioengineering domain.

This is a capstone course in which students establish and complete a substantial research project in the department of biomedical engineering while working with a faculty mentor.

This course introduces the fundamentals of medical imaging and image processing techniques. This includes X-ray projection imaging, X-ray computer tomography (CT), nuclear imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasounds and ultrasonic imaging, and optical imaging.

This course examines the basic properties of biomaterials and methods so that students can manipulate them. Topics include the basic physiological consequences in relation to biomaterial implantation, and the methods for testing biomaterial compatibility. This course gives background knowledge for biomedical engineers to work in biomedical fields.

This course provides research training for exchange students. Students work on a research project under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Through a full-time commitment, students improve their research skills by participating in the different phases of research, including development of research plans, proposals, data analysis, and presentation of research results. A pass/no pass grade is assigned based a progress report, self-evaluation, midterm report, presentation, and final report.

This six-week summer course provides individual research training through the experience of belonging to a specific laboratory at Tohoku University. Students are assigned to a laboratory research group with Japanese and international students under the supervision of Tohoku University faculty. They participate in various group activities, including seminars, for the purpose of training in research methods and developing teamwork skills. The specific topic studied depends on the instructor in charge of the laboratory to which each student is assigned. The methods of assessment vary with the student's project and laboratory instructor. Students submit an abstract concerning the results of their individual research each semester and present the results near the end of this program.