Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
Artificial Organs
Pages from a students project covering eyes, heart, kidney, larnyx, muscles, and skin.
http://cape.uwaterloo.ca/che100projects/organs/
Biomaterials Properties Database
Mechanical, thermal, chemical and flow properties of dental and medical biomaterials.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/Dental_tables/
Biomaterials: Body Parts of the Future
By Cheryl R. Blanchard, article from Technology Today on biomaterials for implants. Long with many pictures.
http://www.swri.org/3pubs/ttoday/fall95/implant.htm
Biomedical Engineering FAQ
From the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University, answers to "What is Biomedical Engineering" and other questions.
http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/news/general-info.php
Biomedical Instrumentation
Lecture slides from Carlos E. Davila: definitions, history, electrophysiology, transducer principles, intrumentation, and measurement systems.
http://engr.smu.edu/~cd/ee5340.html
Current and Projected Economic Trends...
...in the biomedical industry. A study from the Center for Economic Education at the University of Cincinnati. Acrobat pdf.
http://www.business.uc.edu/PDF/EconEd/1997-IA-1003%20ES%20Biomedical%20Industry-Labor%20Trends.pdf
The Kidney
Pages from an online biology textbook describing the functioning of the kidney and the artifical kidney.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/K/Kidney.html
Tissue Engineering
Tutorial from Carnegie Mellon University Bone Tissue Engineering Initiative with in-depth information on tissue substitutes, scaffold issues, solid free-form fabrication and other tissue engineering-related topics.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/tissue/tutorial.html