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20.010J | Spring 2006 | Undergraduate

# Introduction to Bioengineering (BE.010J)

### Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 14 sessions for 7 weeks, 1 hour / session

### Overview

Designed as a freshmen seminar course, faculty from various School of Engineering departments describe the research and educational opportunities specific to and offered by their departments. Background lectures by the 20.010J staff introduce students to the fundamental scientific basis for bioengineering. Specially produced videos provide additional background information that is supplemented with readings from newspaper and magazine articles.

### Assignments

A five page paper on a bioengineering problem is due by session 13.

### Grading

Grades are entirely based on the 5 page paper assignment.

## Course Info

##### Instructors

- Prof. Douglas Lauffenburger
- Prof. Paul T. Matsudaira
- Biological Engineering Faculty
- Prof. Angela M. Belcher

##### Departments

- Biological Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Biology
- Chemical Engineering

##### As Taught In

Spring 2006

##### Level

Undergraduate

##### Topics

- Engineering
  - Biological Engineering
- Science
  - Biology
    - Cell Biology
    - Computation and Systems Biology
    - Molecular Biology

##### Learning Resource Types

theaters Lecture Videos
notes Lecture Notes

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