The University of Iowa

College of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

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051:090 BME Freshmen Forum

Spring 2004
The goals of this course are to familiarize students with research performed by Biomedical Engineering Faculty and collaborators in the College of Engineering and other colleges, and to expose students to the diverse research projects available at the University of Iowa.
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Course Organizer: Oguz Poroy, PhD

Office:
1136 SC (Seamans Center)
Office hours: MWF 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Telephone: (319) 335-6109
E-mail: oguz-poroy@uiowa.edu
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Presentation Schedule

Date No. Speaker Topic
1/22 1 Oguz Poroy, PhD Course Introduction
1/29 2 No seminar is scheduled.
2/5 3 No seminar is scheduled.
2/12 004:012 Chemistry II Examination
2/19 4 Scott Coffel, Coordinator, Hanson Center for Technical Communication, UI College of Engineering Words Matter--
How Communication Makes Engineering Happen
2/26 5 Tae-Hong Lim, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and co-Director of the Iowa Spine Research Center Iowa Spine Research Center Projects
3/4 004:012 Chemistry II Examination
3/11 6 Thomas L. Casavant, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the UI Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology What's in a Genome ...
for an Engineer?
3/18 Spring Break !!
3/25 7 Thomas D. Brown, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the UI Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory UI Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory: Work in Progress
4/1 004:012 Chemistry II Examination
4/8 8 Michael A. Mackey, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pathology and Technical Director of the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis Core Facility at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Live Cell Imaging at the University of Iowa
4/15 9 No seminar is scheduled.
4/22 10 John W. Forys, Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library, and Coordinator, Digital Initiatives, UI College of Engineering An Introduction to Information Resources for Biomedical Engineers
4/29 004:012 Chemistry II Examination
5/6 11 No seminar is scheduled.

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Notes

  • All presentations will be on Thursdays at 4:30 PM in 107 EPB.
  • Speaker and topic information will be posted here as it becomes available. If for any week no speaker/topic information is posted by 5 PM Wednesday, there will not be a presentation that week.
  • Students are required to attend all presentations. Any student, who can not attend a presentation for any reason must inform the course organizer prior to that presentation. In case of an emergency that prevents the student from attending a presentation, the course organizer must be informed as soon as possible.
  • Any student who is absent in more than one presentation without a valid excuse will not pass the course.
  • Students requiring special accommodations should contact the course organizer.
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