226 Goergen Hall, Biomechanical Testing Lab
What happens in this laboratory?
This laboratory provides facilities for testing of the strength and functional performance of biological tissues and other materials used in biomedical applications. For example, in biosolid mechanics, students prepare specimens and learn to use a materials testing system to compare various musculoskeletal tissues to traditional engineering.
When do students use this lab?
Mechanical testing core is used by numerous users within and outside of the biomedical engineering department all year round. In spring of junior year, all biomedical engineering (BME) students, irrespective of their concentration learn the use of mechanical testing system (MTS) in BME 245 (Biomaterials). Later, students specializing in biomechanics concentration, use MTS extensively for multiple lab exercises, in their senior year, when they take BME 283 (Biosolids). Both MTS and Rheometer are used by multiple senior design teams, undergraduate and graduate researchers who work in various biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, and mechanical engineering labs all year around.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Undergraduate Educational Laboratory is housed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, which offers a BS degree program accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, as well as an MS and PhD in biomedical engineering.
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