BMEN 321: Circuits, Signals, and Systems

Course Description

Credits 3.
2 Lecture Hours.
3 Lab Hours.Examination of circuits and linear and nonlinear systems concepts required for quantitative analysis of biomedical and physiological signals and design of biomedical systems; topics include electrical circuit fundamentals, operational amplifiers, frequency response, electrical transients, impulse response, transfer functions, convolution, Fourier and Laplace transforms, filtering of biomedical signals, electrical circuits and analog representations of physiological systems as model systems, and A/D conversion and sampling; theoretical investigations and hands-on acquisition of biomedical signals and designing, building, and testing bioinstrumentation circuits.Prerequisites:Grade of C or better inBMEN 207,BMEN 250orSTAT 312,MATH 308, andPHYS 207; Biomedical Engineering major.