The Master of bioengineering Program is broad based and is devoted to application of engineering principles to the understanding of human body machine in health and disease, its medical care, its performance and impact in normal and hazardous environment. The principle areas of focus are biomaterials for orthopaedic, dental application, rehabilitation and medical instruments. Faculty research areas include biomechanics, tribology, artificial joints, tooth and bone implant design and also rehabs-aids and biomedical instrumentation, design and development.
Director Of School :
Prof. D.N. Tibarewala, Director Ph: 2414-6567 (D) 2414-6666 (O) Extn.2316
Faculty Summary
Full Time
No. of teachers with Ph.D / D.Sc. as the highest qualification
1st Semester: Anatomy, Physiology & Biochemistry, Biomechanics & Biomaterials, Artificial Organ & Rehabilitation Engg. and two core subjects namely, Numerical Analysis & Computer Programming and Instrumentation , Laboratory practice for each subject. Large number of experimental setups are used for illustration of the principles taught.
2nd Semester: Bioinstrumentation, Occupational Health & Safety in Industry, Clinical Engineering & Hospital Management, Computer in Medicine, Laboratory practice, Hospital internship / training, Seminar.
A. Area of Research Activities: (Broad Areas)-
Biomechanics of Soft and Hard tissues, Medical Image Processing, Finite Element
methods applied to biomechanics, Biomaterials, Design and fabrication of Implants,
Bioactive coating, Polymers, Dental implants, Bioactive membrane, Guided tissue
regeneration, Cell culture, Biomedical Instrumentation & development of sensors for
biomedical application, Bio-signal processing.
B. Major Research Project :
Departmental / Individual :Individual ( Prof. Subrata Pal. )
Name of the Project :Development of Customised Joint Prostheses using CT-data
Funding Agency :DST, Govt. of India
Departmental / Individual :Individual ( Prof. Subrata Pal. )
Name of the Project : Development of artificial bone reparing material from waste
egg shells
Funding Agency : WBPCB under CRCT , Jadavpur University
Departmental / Individual ::Individual ( Prof. Subrata Pal. )
Name of the Project : Development of Tissue Expander & Anastomosis Devices
Funding Agency : DST, Govt. of India
Bio-Instrumentation:: Analog Oscilloscope, Digital Storage Oscilloscope ( 20 MHz & 100 MHz ), Function generator, Digital Multimeter, pH meter, Multichannel Bio-amplifier cum recorder, PEMF Generators, Microprocessor kit, Instrument Training Kits, Various Transducer. Biosignal Processing Laboratory with hardwares & softwares.
Med-Imaging and BioSignal:: Processing: X-Ray, EGC machine, Ultrasonoscanner, DSP-Kit, amplifiers, Video camera,Coputer with image capture facilities
Computers:
Hardwares: SGI Indy Workstation, Pentium-4.
Softwares: MATLAB, ANSYS, STARDYNE, Circuit Maker, Multimedia, Internet, other common softwares like, MS-office, PageMaker, AutoCAD, C and C++ and others.
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