Organs and Artificial Organs

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.07.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale and Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Overview of the Circulatory System
  4. Dimensional Analysis Calculation Demonstrating Heart Reliability
  5. Introduction to Units of Measure
  6. Dimensional Analysis of Graphical Data: Ventricular Pressure vs. Volume Graph
  7. Dimensional Analysis for Evaluating Potential Power Sources for an Artificial Heart
  8. Dimensional Analysis does Problem Analysis
  9. Student Background and Challenges
  10. Strategies
  11. Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans
  12. Standards Alignment
  13. Teacher and Student Resources
  14. Endnotes
  15. Bibliography

Dimensional Analysis: A Mathematics Tool to Dissect the Circulatory System

Richard Cordia Taylor

Published September 2011

Tools for this Unit:

Teacher and Student Resources

Bartholet, Jeffery. "Inside the Meat Lab." Scientific American, June 2011.

An article involved with a parallel use of tissue engineering for food production that could provide insights, funding, and economies of scale for the development of critical technologies for tissue engineering.

Cho, Charles Q. "Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs: Scientific American." Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=glucose-body-fuel-cell (accessed August 1, 2011).

A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents' bodies.

Kapit, Wynn, Robert I. Macey, and Esmail Meisami. The physiology coloring book . 2nd ed. San Francisco: Benjamin/Cummings, 1999.

An inexpensive and engaging introduction to physiology. Interaction through coloring probably aids recall.

Krumhardt, Barbara, and I. Edward Alcamo. Barron's E-Z anatomy and physiology . Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, 2010.

An inexpensive and relatively complete presentation of physiology at an appropriate level.

Nerem, R. M. "Tissue engineering: Confronting the transplantation crisis." pih.sagepub.com. pih.sagepub.com/content/214/1/95.full.pdf (accessed August 1, 2011).

Although old, this is a cogent article delineating the demand for and challenges to tissue engineering solutions to organ transplantation

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