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2013-2014 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BNG 419 - Biomimetics

3 credits
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing in Bioengineering or permission of instructor
Biomimetics - human-made processes, substances, devices or systems that imitate nature. This course focuses on substances prepared and engineered to meet biomedical uses. The biomimetic process of self-assembly; bioengineering of biological materials; structure hierarchy; imaging, identification and characterization of biological and biomimetic materials; biomimetic electronics, optics, actuation and sensing.