Organs and Artificial Organs

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.07.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Heart Function
  3. Rationale
  4. Creative Design Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Resources
  7. Appendix: Experts
  8. Appendix- Standards
  9. Notes

Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics

Eric J. Laurenson

Published September 2011

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Kapit, Wynn, and Macey, Robert and Esmail Meisami The Physiology Coloring Book. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, New York. 2000.

An excellent introductory, hands-on coloring book of physiological systems.

Montaigne, Fen. Medicine by design [electronic resource] : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering / Fen Montaigne. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Online book.

A good resource of biomedical engineering principals.

Quinn, Helen and Heidi Schweingruber. Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas. Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards. National Research Council. 2011.

An engaging report about the future of k-12 Science Standards.

Roger, Veronique L., et al. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2011 Update : A Report From the American Heart Association Circulation 2011, 123:e18-e209. American Heart Association, 2010.

A source of data regarding the prevalence of mortality resulting from heart failure.

Saltzman, W. Mark. Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology. Cambridge University Press, New York. 2009.

An invaluable source of background information pertaining to the physiology and biomedical engineering.

My unit for an artificial limb. www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/RET/.../Limb%20Teacher%20Guide%20(Draft).doc

My own curriculum developed for creating an artificial limb.

My patent on the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Apparatus and Associated Methods

http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/WO2007106692

My own patent that address RF (radio frequency) remotely powered devices

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