(Department)  Biomedical Engineering         (Division)      Biomaterials and Tissue
 
 (Level and Major)            Graduate
 

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Course Title              Computational Methods in Tissue Engineering                                     
 
Number of Credits       3             Prerequisite  

Course Description:
This course introduces the computational modeling approach in tissue engineering.
 
Course Topics:

• Introduction of modeling applications in Tissue Engineering
• Multiscale Modeling in Tissue Engineering
• Computational approaches in Scaffolds modeling
• Optimization approaches in tissue engineering
• Computational modeling in angiogenesis
• Computational modeling in cell signaling
• Computational modeling in development, growth, and diseases

 
The course aims to:
Develop detailed understanding of the computational modeling approaches in tissue engineering
 
 
Reading Resources:

• Paulo Rui Fernanez, Paulo Jorge Bartolo, Tissue engineering: computer modeling,
• Biofabrication and Cell behavior, Springer, 2014
• Liesbet Geris, Computational modeling in tissue engineering, Springer, 2013
• Paulo Rui Fernandez, Paulo Jorge Bertolo, Advances on modeling in tissue engineering,

Springer, 2011

• Principles of Computioal Cell Biology: From Protein Complexes to Cellular Networks By

Volkharf Helms, 2009
 
 
Evaluation
Homework, term projects, midterm and final exams