College of Chemistry Course Guide

BIOE 121 - BioMEMS and Medical Devices (4 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Biophysical and chemical principles of biomedical devices, bionanotechnology, bionanophotonics, and biomedical microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS). Topics include basics of nano- and microfabrication, soft-lithography, DNA arrays, protein arrays, electrokinetics, electrochemical, transducers, microfluidic devices, biosensor, point of care diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, drug delivery microsystems, clinical lab-on-a-chip, advanced biomolecular probes, etc.

Prerequisites

CHEM 3A, PHYS 7A, and PHYS 7B

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide