Course outline
Specialized Foundational Subjects (Common to Faculty of Engineering)
| Lecture subject name | outline |
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| Linear Algebra I | The purpose of this course is to learn the properties of matrices and to understand the mathematics learned in high school in relation to abstract theories. When considering several numbers as a group, matrices can be used to perform calculations effectively. The content learned in linear algebra is essential for describing and analyzing various phenomena in various fields of engineering. Mastering various calculation techniques related to matrices will help you understand more abstract concepts such as vector spaces, so this course will put this knowledge into practice through exercises. The goal of this course is to learn the properties of matrices and acquire specific calculation techniques. |
| Calculus I and Exercises | Learn about calculus for functions of one variable and its applications. The goal is to understand the concept of limits and acquire advanced calculation skills. First, continuity, a basic property of real numbers, is explained, and then differentiation is defined starting from the concept of limits, and students learn how to calculate it. In the process, students will also learn the properties of functions such as trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. Regarding integration, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, which states that differentiation and integration are the inverse operations of each other, is explained, and students will learn how to calculate indefinite and definite integrals, and as applications, the meaning and calculation methods of the area of a figure and the length of a curve are acquired. Specific standards to be achieved are as follows. (1) To be able to differentiate and integrate basic functions. (2) Understand how to calculate the maximum and minimum values of functions. (3) Learn how to calculate area and the length of a curve. Generally, the first class is a lecture and the second class is practical training. |
| Linear Algebra II | In this course, students will learn how to define vector spaces, which are generalizations of planes and spaces, linear mappings between vector spaces, and how to investigate linear mappings. Matrices learned in Linear Algebra I will play an important role in learning this method. Linear mappings are easy-to-use mappings that map lines to lines, and they appear and are used in a variety of situations. In particular, students will learn basic matters such as bases and dimensions of vector spaces, images of linear mappings, and kernels, and will also deepen their understanding of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The goal of this course is to understand vector spaces, linear mappings, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, inner products, matrix diagonalization, and the like, and to be able to perform specific calculations. |
| Calculus II and Exercises | In this course, students will learn about the differentiation and integration of functions of multiple variables. As many natural phenomena are described using functions of multiple variables, the content of this course is essential in engineering. This course will mainly focus on functions of two variables. First, students will learn about partial differentiation of functions of two or more variables, and as an application, they will learn about how to determine the extreme values of functions. Next, they will learn about double and triple integrals, and as an application, they will calculate the volume of figures. They will also define line integrals on a plane, and later they will learn about infinite series. The goal of this course is to understand and master the various concepts related to the differentiation and integration of functions of multiple variables, as well as to acquire solid calculation skills through exercises. Generally, the first class is a lecture and the second class is practical training. |
Specialized Basic Subjects (Basics of Biomedical Systems Engineering)
| Lecture subject name | outline |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Clinical Medicine | To cultivate engineers who will contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary for them to understand the characteristics of various medical departments (internal medicine, surgery (cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterological surgery), neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, etc.), the actual medical field, and the medical technology required. In this course, several medical professionals will be invited from outside the university, with the goal of gaining an understanding of outline of each medical department and medical field. The achievement standard will be an understanding of the characteristics of each medical department, conventional medical technology and medical equipment, and the issues and needs of each medical department. Lectures will be in an omnibus format, with a total of 15 classroom sessions. |
| Physiology | In order to train engineers who can contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary to understand the functions of the living body that is the target of diagnosis and treatment. In order to learn Biomedical Engineering I in the second year, it is necessary to have a basic grasp of physiology in the lower years. In this course, students will learn about the functional structure of life phenomena and the mechanisms that maintain homeostasis in the living body, and the goal is to understand the relationship between the functions of various organs of living organisms and pathology. The achievement criteria are to understand various laws for understanding life functions from physical and chemical properties, to understand engineering measurement methods for evaluating life functions, and to be able to explain the relationship with pathology. There will be a total of 15 lectures, with the first (1st to 5th) covering blood circulation and the intake and excretion of substances, the middle (6th to 10th) covering homeostasis of the internal environment, and the final (11th to 15th) covering the regulation of nerves and biological functions, including practical assignments. |
| biology | Biology, a field of study in a different category from engineering such as physics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering, is essential knowledge for modern engineers, especially medical researchers, and has many commonalities and points of contact with the viewpoint of engineering. This course assumes that students have taken "Introduction to Biology" and provides an overview of biology from the basics to cutting-edge topics in biology. The goal is to help students realize that biology is a science that is close to them and extremely important. The course consists of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-7) focusing mainly on the depths of genetics, and the second half (8-15) exploring cell metabolism, such as respiration, and macroscopic biomolecular reactions, which are interactions between cells. |
| Biomedical Engineering Ⅰ | In order to train engineers who will contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary for them to have a comprehensive understanding of the principles of medical instruments and devices used in various medical departments (internal medicine, surgery (cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterological surgery), neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, etc.) and current trends in the medical world. The goal of this course is to understand the diagnostic and treatment technologies and cutting-edge medical equipment that are widely used in the current medical field. The achievement standard is to be able to understand the principles and characteristics of medical technologies and medical equipment that exist or are in the development stage, the background to their development, and the limitations and problems. The lectures will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with each session covering one medical technology or medical equipment. |
| Mathematical Statistics | Mathematical statistics is a very important field for handling data obtained from medical surveys and experiments. In particular, engineers working in biomedical engineering are required to understand the background and trends that arise from the trends shown in the data. This course will teach the meaning of probability distribution, mean, variance, and standard deviation, which are basic concepts of data analysis, and provide the ability to put them into practice. It will also consider the concepts of various estimation and testing methods as representative methods of statistical inference. At the same time, the goal is to analyze various examples of medical data as exercises, deepen understanding of these, and become able to put them into practice. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first part explaining random variables and probability distribution, which are basic methods of data organization, the second part explaining details of various estimation and testing methods, and the last part practicing actual analysis methods mainly through exercises. |
| Engineering Mathematics | Mathematics is an extremely powerful tool for understanding and explaining physical phenomena. In this course, students will learn about the basics of differential equations and vector analysis, which are essential for studying physics. The course aims to help students recognize that mathematics is a convenient, powerful and indispensable tool, and to master the basics of how to use it. This course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first half covering solutions to complex plane and linear upper differential equations, and the second half covering multiple integrals and vector fields. |
| Engineering Applied Mathematics | This course will take a cross-sectional look at mathematical analysis methods using physical phenomena appearing in mechanics, electromagnetism, vibrations and waves, etc., and will help students understand the relationship with knowledge learned in mathematics courses such as differential and integral calculus and linear algebra. The goal is to master mathematics as a tool for describing physical phenomena, improve its application skills, and learn concrete methods of expression and calculation for describing physical phenomena. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with vector analysis covered in the first half and complex function theory covered in the second half. |
| Chemistry Basics | All engineering is deeply related to materials, and the world of life is also governed by the material world, so chemistry is a very useful classification for understanding the vast knowledge of the material world in a systematic and well-structured way. In this lecture, we will explain chemistry topics while incorporating many physical perspectives so that it is easy for non-chemistry students to understand. The goal is to enable students to think about chemical phenomena rather than just memorize them. The lecture will consist of 15 lectures, with the first part (lectures 1-5) covering the origin and environment of elements, the middle part (lectures 6-10) covering the basics of oxidation-reduction and analysis, and the final part (lectures 11-15) developing into chemical reactions and stimulus transmission. |
| Introduction to Biology | The course aims to provide students with a foundation for studying life phenomena in depth in the biology, physiology, and biochemistry classes offered in this department after reviewing the content of high school biology. Students will learn about biology in general, including the connections from molecules to cells and individuals, the gene expression and development/reproduction necessary for their formation, and the shapes and functions of animals and plants. The course consists of 15 lectures and exercises, with the first part (1-5 lessons) covering the basics of living organisms and cells, the middle part (6-10 lessons) covering the details of heredity and genes, and the final part (11-15 lessons) developing into specific topics such as adaptation and homeostasis in the evolutionary process of living organisms and ecosystems. |
| Mechanics | Mechanics is the most fundamental subject in physics and engineering, and the aim of this course is to acquire a physical way of thinking and approaching things. The standard for achievement is to be able to do differential equations, and to understand Newton's equations of motion, uniformly accelerated motion, harmonic oscillator motion, energy, momentum, orbital motion of a mass point, motion of a system of mass points, and translational and rotational motion of a rigid body. The course consists of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-7th lecture) covering the motion of objects based on the three laws of motion (classical mechanics), and the second half (8-15th lecture) developing into motion in a system of mass points and rigid bodies. |
| Introduction to Electromagnetism | Electromagnetism is, needless to say, one of the foundations of technology and research in science and engineering. This course aims to provide basic knowledge of electromagnetism necessary for the specialized field of biomedical systems engineering. The goal is not to memorize formulas and cultivate the ability to apply them to given problems, but to understand the essence of electromagnetic forces and interactions and the phenomena that appear as a result. The course consists of 15 lectures, with the first (1-5) covering the basics of the interaction between a stationary charge and a static electric field, and Coulomb's law, the middle (6-10) covering concepts such as electric fields, electric potentials, and conservative forces based on Gauss's law, and the final (11-15) covering the concepts of gravitational fields, work, and potential, including practical assignments. |
| Electromagnetics Applications | To develop human resources who develop medical technology, it is necessary to understand the principles of measuring devices and physical phenomena occurring within the body. This course builds on the Introduction to Electromagnetism learned in the first year and aims to enable students to model and understand electromagnetic phenomena related to medical technology. The course aims to enable students to understand electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetic wave phenomena, and to apply this knowledge to engineering problems in medicine and physical phenomena within the body. The course consists of 15 classroom sessions, with the first session (sessions 1-5) reviewing the basics of electromagnetism, and the middle (sessions 6-10) and final (sessions 11-15) sessions alternating between lectures and exercises to help students acquire the ability to apply electromagnetism to specific problems. |
| Continuum Physics | In order to physically understand blood flow, cell deformation, cell mechanosensing, etc., it is effective to consider the living body as a molecular assembly, focus on its macroscopic physical properties, and approximate it as a continuously distributed medium. In this course, the course aims to learn the basics of how to handle such continua and apply them to living bodies. The course consists of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-7) teaching students how to express the deformation and flow of continua and the concept of tensors that relate to forces, and the second half (8-15) teaching students how to understand the basic equations and how to develop these equations to express blood flow and the equilibrium shape of cells. |
| Thermo-Statistical Mechanics | When developing measurement and diagnostic technologies related to medicine, it is necessary to master the concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in order to understand the functions and mechanisms of living organisms from a physical perspective and to apply them to device development and other applications. In this course, the goal is to learn the basic concepts of thermostatistical mechanics and to be able to use these concepts to understand biological functions and phenomena around us. The achievement criteria are to be able to explain the phenomena around us by going back to the basic principles of thermodynamics, and to be able to explain the motion at the atomic and molecular level based on the basic concepts of statistical mechanics. The course will consist of 15 lectures, including small group discussions and presentations. In the first half (1-7th lectures), the concepts and applications of thermodynamics will be learned, and in the second half (8-15th lectures), the concepts and applications of statistical mechanics will be learned. |
| Quantum mechanics | This lecture will explain the relationship between matrix mechanics and wave mechanics, starting with the origin of quantum mechanics. Next, we will learn the basic theory of quantum mechanical particle motion, which has the duality of wave and particle. We will understand the characteristics of quantum mechanics by solving the fundamental equation, the Schr?dinger equation, by applying it to one-dimensional problems. We will then consider the basic framework of quantum mechanics while organizing mathematical tools. The goal is to understand the basic concepts of quantum mechanics (the meaning of wave function, the meaning of operators, measurement, etc.) and be able to explain the characteristics of quantum mechanical states. The lecture will consist of 15 lectures, with the first part (lectures 1-5) covering the Schr?dinger equation, the middle part (lectures 6-10) covering the application of constraint conditions including exercises, and the final part (lectures 11-15) explaining the basic framework of quantum mechanics including Hilbert spaces. |
| Wave physics | To develop human resources who will develop medical technology, it is necessary for students to understand the principles of measurement devices and physical phenomena occurring within the body. The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of physical phenomena related to light, radio waves, and sound waves as wave phenomena. The standard for achievement is to have an understanding of the basics of wave phenomena and their relationship to measurement technologies related to light, radio waves, and sound waves. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with the first half (sessions 1-7) explaining the basics of vibration and wave phenomena and the second half (sessions 8-15) explaining the theories of light, radio waves, and sound waves. |
| Programming I and Exercises | The use of computers is indispensable in modern science and technology. In particular, programming to operate computers has become an essential skill for researchers and engineers. In this course, students will learn about C/C++, which is widely used for computer simulations and controlling experimental equipment. They will learn the grammar of C/C++ and basic program creation techniques. In particular, they will understand the characteristics of C/C++, which allows programming that is closely related to computer hardware. In addition, they will understand the concept of object-oriented programming and be able to handle recent programming environments. The achievement standard is that students will have acquired the ability to create basic programs on their own. The course consists of 15 lectures and exercises, and students will learn about computer hardware (1 session), data types, operators, and expressions (2 sessions), control flow (3-4 sessions), functions and program structure (5-6 sessions), pointers and arrays (7-8 sessions), handling strings (9 sessions), structures (10 sessions), input/output (11-12 sessions), object orientation (13-14 sessions), and handling images (15 sessions). |
| Programming II and Exercises | The course aims to develop the C/C++ program creation techniques learned in "Programming I and Exercises" and to enable students to comfortably handle complex programming, including data processing and image processing. Students will gain experience in basic computational tasks such as mathematical problems that are difficult to find analytical solutions to and numerical simulations. Students will also learn programming techniques for handling data such as pointers and structures. The course consists of 15 lectures and exercises, with the first part (1-5 sessions) covering graphics, including image processing, the middle part (6-10 sessions) covering pointers and character strings, and the final part (11-15 sessions) covering application to various simulations, including exercise assignments. |
| electric circuit | Electrical circuits are always involved in biomedical measurement and medical equipment, and mastering the basics of electrical circuits is a prerequisite for working in their development in the future. The goal of this course is to learn about DC and AC circuits consisting of resistors, capacitors, and coils, and to be able to derive their responses. The goal is to understand the laws related to electrical circuits and be able to analyze DC and AC circuits. There will be a total of 15 lectures, with exercises interspersed where appropriate. In the first half (lectures 1-7), students will learn about circuits with simple configurations, and even handle analysis using complex numbers. In the second half (lectures 8-15), students will learn the basics of circuit network analysis based on the content of the first half. |
| Electronic Circuit | To train engineers who can contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary to have basic knowledge of electronics, which underpins modern society. In this course, students will learn the basics of electronic properties in semiconductors, and then understand the principles of diodes and transistors. The course also aims to teach the basics of analog and digital electronic circuits. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with the first half (sessions 1-7) covering the band structure of solids and the basics of semiconductors, and the second half (sessions 8-15) covering the principles of semiconductor elements, which will be developed into analog and digital electronic circuits. |
Specialized subject
| Lecture subject name | outline |
|---|---|
| Biomedical Engineering II | In order to train engineers who will contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the principles of medical imaging diagnostic equipment used in various medical departments (internal medicine, surgery (cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterological surgery), neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, etc.) and current trends in the medical world. The goal of this course is to understand medical technologies currently under development that are expected to be necessary in future medical settings. It also touches on multimodal technologies that combine different imaging diagnostic methods and theranostic technologies that perform diagnosis and treatment simultaneously. The completion criteria is an understanding of the principles and characteristics of medical imaging diagnostic technologies and equipment that exist or are in the development stage, the background to their development, and limitations and problems. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions in total, with each session covering one medical technology or medical equipment. |
| Bioethics | The background to the establishment of bioethics is the urgent concern of how to respond to the major changes in views on life and death that come with advances in science and technology, especially in medicine. In this lecture, we will concretely consider various issues based on the meaning of bioethics for humans and animals, which is necessary especially for becoming a medical engineer. The achievement standard is to understand the contemporary significance of the academic field of bioethics and to be able to cultivate a healthy awareness of the magnitude and seriousness of the influence brought about by science and technology. The lectures will be a total of 15 classroom sessions, with the first part (1-5) discussing the reasons for the birth of bioethics and the characteristics of bioethics, the middle part (6-10) discussing specific topics such as the beginning of life, the selection of life, and the right to live, and the final part (11-15) mainly raising the issue of the end of life to cultivate a view on life. |
| Measurement and Control | High reliability is required for medical measurement devices, but no matter what device is used, there will always be some error in the measurement results. In this course, the goal is to learn various measurement methods and become able to plan measurement methods to obtain the required measurement accuracy. In addition, with the increase in electronic and automated measurement devices in recent years, the goal is to understand the basic theory of automatic control such as state feedback control. The achievement criteria are to understand the probabilistic handling of measurement results, be able to predict the magnitude of error, and understand state feedback control. The lectures will be a total of 15 classroom sessions, with measurement engineering taught in the first half (1st to 7th sessions) and control theory taught in the second half (8th to 15th sessions). |
| Medical Imaging Engineering | In recent years, cameras have been installed in all electronic devices, such as mobile phones, and digital images have become all too familiar. In addition, image diagnosis is an essential element in the field of biomedical systems engineering. In this course, we will lecture on the basic knowledge of image processing, such as how to handle imaging devices as hardware and image processing programming algorithms as software. The achievement standard is that students will have acquired not only basic knowledge of images, but also the ability to build algorithms for given tasks. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first part (1-5) covering the basics of images and outline of input/output devices, the middle part (6-10) covering the basics of image processing represented by pattern recognition, and the final part (11-15) covering applications using medical images, including exercises. |
| Introduction to AI | Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have been remarkable, and its use is also expanding in the medical field. In this course, students will learn the basic concepts of AI based on deep neural networks, and the basics for understanding the latest AI technology. First, students will learn about Python, a programming language often used in AI programming, and then about basic algorithms used in deep learning. Students will also learn how to use recent AI tools. The course will be a total of 15 classroom sessions, during which students will learn about Python programming (1 session), perceptrons (2 sessions), neural networks (3 sessions), network learning (5-6 sessions), deep neural networks (7 sessions), convolutional neural networks (8-9 sessions), recurrent neural networks (10-11 sessions), autoencoders (12-13 sessions), and AI software (14-15 sessions). |
| Chemical Physics | In order to understand chemical reactions and state changes in living organisms, it is important to describe the state by applying thermostatistical mechanics. The course aims to achieve this by understanding state changes from the perspective of thermostatistical mechanics and applying it to living organisms. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first half (lessons 1-7) starting with a review of the statistical mechanical definition of entropy and learning about the direction of state change. In the second half (lessons 8-15), free energy will be introduced to understand the direction of state change and equilibrium states under constant temperature and pressure conditions, and applications will be made to chemical equilibrium and phase equilibrium. |
| Solid State Physics | Solid state physics (also called condensed matter physics or condensed matter physics) is a field of study that seeks to understand all the properties of matter (response to mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and optical stimuli) at the atomic level and at a microscopic level. Solid state physics is at the cutting edge of physics and is still the subject of active basic research, but it also serves as the foundation for many other fields, including electronics, materials science, chemistry, biology, information engineering, and medical device engineering. In this course, students will learn about periodicity, phonons, free electrons, and other topics in solid crystals, and aim to understand wave number space and band structure. The course will be completed with the ability to explain conduction phenomena in solids at the atomic level. There will be a total of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-7) covering crystallography and metal electronic theory, and the second half (8-15) developing into cutting-edge research related to band structure and medical device engineering. |
| Optical Electronics | Light is used in a variety of fields, including measurement, communication, and imaging, and has recently been used in the medical field as well. Light has a wide range of applications, as it has properties as a ray, wave, and particle. In this course, students will understand the properties of light in the order of ray, wave, and particle. Specifically, students will learn about geometric optics, reflection and refraction, interference, and diffraction as light in space. Next, students will learn about polarization, crystals, and optical fibers as light in matter. Finally, students will learn about LEDs, semiconductor lasers, and photodetectors as light that interacts with electrons. The course is to be able to acquire the basics to properly understand modern optical technology from the perspectives of rays, waves, and particles. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with students learning about light in space in sessions 1-5, light in matter in sessions 6-10, and light that interacts with electrons in sessions 11-15. |
| Introduction to Quantum Technology | To develop human resources who will develop medical technology, students are required to understand the principles of measurement equipment and medical devices. In this course, students will build on the quantum mechanics learned in the second year and aim to model and understand various quantum phenomena in biomolecules and solid-state devices. The course will aim to be able to describe quantum states in complex vector space and understand the interactions between light and radio waves and atoms, molecules, and solids. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first lecture (lectures 1-5) covering complex vector space and quantum states, the middle lecture (lectures 6-10) covering perturbation theory in quantum mechanics, and the final lecture (lectures 11-15) covering MRI and other topics to provide an overview of the relationship between quantum mechanics and medical measurement. |
| Medical Ultrasound Engineering | Ultrasound refers to high-frequency sound waves above the audible range, and in the medical field, it is an essential physical phenomenon in all departments as a tool to obtain information inside the body. In particular, ultrasound is limited to images used in fetal diagnosis. Furthermore, ultrasound can increase heat locally and generate radiation force by concentrating its energy spatially, so it is used not only for diagnosis but also for treatment. In this lecture, the course assumes that the student has taken "Wave Physics" and has fully understood the characteristics of ultrasound and the knowledge necessary for experiments using ultrasound. The lecture will consist of 15 lectures, with the first part (1-5) explaining the basics of medical ultrasound, including the Doppler effect and acoustic impedance, the middle part (6-10) explaining diagnostic techniques using contrast agents such as microbubbles, and the final part (11-15) explaining therapeutic applications such as HIFU and their mechanisms. |
| Medical Mechatronics | In recent years, measuring devices have become increasingly computerized and automated. In the past, blood samples taken from many patients during health checkups were examined one by one by a human, but in recent years, it has become possible to use a robotic arm to measure blood samples little by little from a large number of test tubes lined up and automatically apply them to a measuring device. The goal of this course is to learn the technology required for automating and robotizing medical measuring devices. The achievement criteria are to understand the mechanisms of mechanical parts such as liquid delivery pumps and motors used in medical measuring devices, and to understand how to design and control robots. |
| Radiation Chemistry | When working with radiation as a medical engineer, it is important to understand how radiation energy is transferred to substances and how chemical changes occur, including ionization, excitation, and bond breaking. This course will present the necessary information for this purpose, and also require an understanding of radiation protection and legal concepts. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with the first session (sessions 1-5) explaining radiobiological knowledge, the middle session (sessions 6-10) outlining the essentials of radiation physics and radiobiology, and the final session (sessions 11-15) covering radiation injury and protection, as well as radiation protection systems, with a view to treatment. |
| Biofunctional Engineering | The development of medical measurement and diagnostic technologies requires a biological and physical understanding of the functions and mechanisms of living organisms, and the ability to quantitatively discuss them from an engineering perspective. In this course, students will learn about the functions of living organisms from the perspectives of mechanics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermostatistical mechanics, and aim to be able to quantitatively explain biological functions. The goal is to be able to quantitatively explain biological functions from both biological and physical perspectives. The lectures will consist of 15 lectures, including small group discussions and presentations, with each theme covering density, viscosity, diffusion, thermal properties, electrical resistance, and sound and light, with two to three sessions per theme. |
| Medical Measurement and Equipment | The technology of biomedical measurement and medical equipment is evolving rapidly, and various methods are being developed. This course will focus on the principles of medical measurement based on electrical and optical methods, and the equipment that applies them. Through the lectures, the goal is to acquire the basics for developing new medical measurement technologies and equipment in the future, and to cultivate awareness of issues. The goal is to have a correct understanding of the basic principles of various measurement methods, as well as the scope of application, advantages, and disadvantages of each device. There will be a total of 15 lectures, with the first half (lectures 1-7) focusing mainly on electrical measurement methods, which are well established. The second half (lectures 8-15) will focus on optical methods, which have recently been the subject of active research. |
| Biophotonics | Currently, the importance of optics (photonics) in the development of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices is increasing. In order to apply photonics to diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, it is important to understand the interactions between biological tissues and light (absorption, light scattering, fluorescence, etc.). In this course, the goal is to learn about measurement, analysis, treatment, and bioregulation using the interactions between light and biological tissues, and to understand the principles of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices. The achievement criteria are to understand the relationship between the optical properties of biological tissues and physiology, biochemistry, and pathology, to be able to theoretically and numerically handle the propagation of light in the body, and to be able to explain the effects of light on the body (thermal, acoustic, mechanical, chemical, and tissue regeneration promotion effects, etc.). The lectures will be a total of 15 classroom sessions, with the first session (1st to 5th) covering the interaction between light and biological tissues, the relationship between optical properties and in vivo functional pigment proteins and tissue/cell structures, the middle session (6th to 10th) covering the effects of light on the body, and the final session (11th to 15th) including practical assignments, to understand the analysis of light propagation in the body. |
| Medical Device Engineering | In today's aging society with a declining birthrate, we need "sensors that can detect biomolecules with high sensitivity" for early detection of diseases in hospitals and at home, so that people can live healthy and safe lives. The purpose of this course is to learn the basics of biosensors and then understand topics in device engineering related to medical use. The course consists of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-5) covering the basic concepts and classification of biosensors, and the second half (6-15) covering the structure and function of electrochemical sensors for detecting glucose and antigens, and developing them into the latest biosensors. |
| Scientific English Seminar | Reports and discussions on scientific and technological achievements are conducted in English, the global common language. Students will acquire accurate English expressions related to science and technology in order to correctly understand science and technology and present their own achievements. In particular, the goal is to read papers on biomedical systems engineering and be able to explain their contents through presentations. There will be a total of 15 exercises, in the form of seminars, with each Faculty Member in charge of a small group. |
| Antibody Immunology | Our bodies have a function known as "immunity" that aims to keep us healthy and avoid illness by eliminating foreign substances that invade from the outside or that occur inside the body. This course aims to provide an understanding of the structure, function, and diversity of immune molecules, focusing on antibody molecules, starting with basic knowledge of amino acids and proteins. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with the first half (sessions 1-7) covering defense reactions against bacterial infections and viruses, and the second half (sessions 8-15) covering the structure, function, and diversity of immune molecules, progressing to the mechanisms of immunity and disease. |
| Clinical Medicine Basics I | This course assumes that students have taken "Introduction to Clinical Medicine" and explains the medical knowledge required for medical technicians in the medical field. In Clinical Medicine Basics I, the goal is to understand what biological tissues are, the types of cells that make them up, and the structure and characteristics of organs that are made up of the functions and interactions of each cell, mainly focusing on the academic field known as histology. The course consists of 15 classroom sessions, with the first session (sessions 1-5) covering epithelial tissue and muscle tissue, the middle session (sessions 6-8) covering nervous tissue and lymphatic vessels, and the final session (sessions 9-15) covering organs such as the digestive system, respiratory system, urinary system, and reproductive system. |
| Clinical Medicine Basics II | This course assumes that students have taken "Introduction to Clinical Medicine" and explains the medical knowledge required in the medical field as a medical technician. In Clinical Medicine Basics II, students will learn about the normal external morphology and internal structure of higher animals at the macroscopic level. Students will mainly learn about the morphology of organs related to animal functions, namely the locomotor system, sensory organs, nervous system, and integument. The goal is to be able to explain the outline of these. The course will consist of 15 classroom sessions, with the first session (sessions 1-5) covering bones and joints, the middle session (sessions 6-10) covering sensory organs such as the organs of sight and hearing, and the final session (sessions 11-15) covering mainly brain functions. |
| Biochemistry | This lecture will provide an overview of the structure, properties, functions, and analytical methods of various substances that make up living organisms, as well as substances involved in the many reaction mechanisms that sustain life. Although there are many different living organisms with a wide variety of shapes and movements, from a biochemical perspective, they are all made of common substances, and the structures and properties of the enzymes that control the reactions that occur in the body are essentially the same in all living organisms. The minimum goal is to understand the structure and function of basic substances and their roles in the body. The lecture will consist of 15 lectures, with the first half (1-7) covering the structure and function of amino acids and proteins, and the second half (8-15) covering the properties of carbohydrates and enzymes and the metabolic mechanisms in the body, including reaction kinetics. |
| Pathology and Pharmacology | In order to train engineers who can contribute to the development of medical technology, it is necessary to understand the basic principles of the development of diseases to be diagnosed and treated, and the mechanism of action of drugs. In order to promote research on biomedical systems engineering from the third year onwards, it is important to have a grasp of the basics of pathology and pharmacology. In this course, students will learn what diseases various pathologies cause, as well as the interactions between the organism and substances inside and outside the organism, and the goal is to understand the relationship between the tissue structure of each organ and the pathology, and the phenomena that result from the interaction between drugs and the organism. The achievement criteria are to understand the classification of diseases based on the cause, the structural basic units of diseases, histological changes in various pathologies, the basics of major diseases and their pathologies. In addition, students will be able to explain the basics of drug receptors, intracellular signaling systems, and ion channels. The course will consist of 15 lectures, with the first half (1st to 7th lectures) covering pathology, and the second half (8th to 15th lectures) covering the basics of pharmacology. |
| Special Seminar I | This program is especially targeted at students who enrolled through the SAIL entrance exam, and allows them to experience research activities in a laboratory. Specifically, students will participate in seminars, hold discussions, and assist with experiments, giving them experiences that they would not be able to get through classroom learning. The goal is for students to understand research trends in biomedical systems engineering and grasp the objectives of the laboratory to which they are assigned. Students will visit laboratories a total of 15 times and conduct research activities. |
| Special Seminar II | This program is especially targeted at students who enrolled through the SAIL entrance exam, and allows them to experience research activities in a laboratory. Specifically, students will participate in seminars, hold discussions, and assist with experiments, giving them experiences that they would not be able to get through classroom learning. The goal is for students to understand research trends in biomedical systems engineering and grasp the objectives of the laboratory to which they are assigned. Students will visit laboratories a total of 15 times and conduct research activities. |
| Biomedical Systems Engineering Experiment I | In the second year Biomedical Systems Engineering Experiment I, students will conduct one theme every four weeks, for a total of six themes throughout the year. Students will be divided into groups of roughly 10 people and assigned an experiment theme, but within each theme, they will further divide into smaller groups of 4-5 people and conduct experiments simultaneously or alternate between smaller themes of slightly different content. The achievement criteria will be a comprehensive judgment of whether students can understand the experimental content and conduct the experiment appropriately, whether they can analyze the experimental data and draw a conclusion, whether they can make a scientific observation about the results, whether they can properly summarize the above in a report, and whether they can give a comprehensive presentation of the content. |
| Biomedical Systems Engineering Experiment II | In the third year Biomedical Systems Engineering Experiment II, students will conduct one theme every four weeks, for a total of six themes throughout the year. Students will be divided into groups of roughly 10 people and assigned an experiment theme, but within each theme, they will further divide into smaller groups of 4-5 people and conduct experiments simultaneously or alternate between smaller themes of slightly different content. The achievement criteria will be a comprehensive judgment of whether students can understand the experimental content and conduct the experiment appropriately, whether they can analyze the experimental data and draw a conclusion, whether they can make a scientific observation about the results, whether they can properly summarize the above in a report, and whether they can give a comprehensive presentation of the content. |
| Special Seminar on Biomedical Systems Engineering I | In the first semester of their fourth year, students will conduct exercises under the guidance of Faculty Member in each laboratory to build the basic elements that can be reflected in the content of their graduation thesis. The achievement criteria will be comprehensively judged based on whether they have devoted sufficient time to their daily lives, and whether they have worked on the assignments enthusiastically, tenaciously, and seriously, and whether they have clearly understood the purpose of the research based on academic and social backgrounds, and whether they have conducted their investigations through trial and error. |
| Special Seminar on Biomedical Systems Engineering II | In the second semester of the fourth year, students will conduct exercises under the guidance of Faculty Member in each laboratory to build the basic elements that can be reflected in the content of their graduation thesis. The achievement criteria will be comprehensively judged based on whether they have devoted sufficient time to their daily lives, and whether they have worked on the assignments enthusiastically, tenaciously, and seriously, and whether they have clearly understood the purpose of the research based on academic and social backgrounds, and whether they have conducted their investigations through trial and error. |
| Special Experiment in Biomedical Systems Engineering I | In the first semester of their fourth year, students conduct experiments under the guidance of Faculty Member in each laboratory, and based on the results, clarify the direction of their research for their graduation thesis. The achievement criteria are determined by comprehensively assessing the following elements: (1) dedicating sufficient time from their daily lives to working on the assignments with enthusiasm, persistence, and sincerity; (2) having a clear understanding of the purpose of the research based on academic and social backgrounds; (3) using trial and error to consider research methods that correspond to the purpose; (4) taking concrete steps to achieve the purpose; (5) being able to summarize the results in the form of a thesis and explain them carefully and clearly. |
| Special Experiment in Biomedical Systems Engineering II | In the second semester of their fourth year, students will conduct experiments under the guidance of Faculty Member in each laboratory, and based on the results, clarify the direction of their research for their graduation thesis. The achievement criteria will be judged comprehensively based on the following elements: (1) dedicating sufficient time from their daily lives to working on the assignments with enthusiasm, persistence, and sincerity, (2) having a clear understanding of the purpose of the research based on the academic and social background, (3) using trial and error to consider research methods that correspond to the purpose, (4) concretely progressing with activities toward achieving the purpose, and (5) being able to summarize the results obtained in the form of a thesis and explain them carefully and clearly. |
| Laboratory Experience Assignment | As a preliminary step to full-scale research activities in the laboratories, students will understand the specific issues being addressed in each laboratory and prepare to smoothly proceed with their graduation research from the next year onwards. Students will apply the understanding of research content cultivated in Biomedical Systems Engineering Experiments I and II, and the development up to the derivation and consideration of conclusions, to the practical stage. Students will also be evaluated on their ability to interact, cooperate and discuss with seniors already affiliated with the laboratories. Students will also be required to participate in regular report meetings held within the laboratories. |
| Graduation thesis | By being assigned to a laboratory and working on specific tasks, students will acquire peripheral knowledge and skills for solving problems, contribute to medical technology, and develop the ability to become independent engineers who can compete not only in Japan but also on a global scale. In addition to regular reports held within the laboratory, the department as a whole will hold a midterm presentation in the fall and a final presentation at the end of the academic year to evaluate the students' level of proficiency. |