SylabUZ
| Course name | Sensors and Non-Electrical Quantities Measurement |
| Course ID | 06.9-WM-ER-IB-42_18 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering |
| Field of study | WM - oferta ERASMUS |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2023/2024 |
| Semester | 2 |
| ECTS credits to win | 3 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
| Laboratory | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The aim of the course is acquisition knowledge and competences in practical use and exploitation of sensors and to measure non-electrical quantities in biomedical engineering.
Basics: electrotechnics, electronics, physics, biology, biochemistry, metrology.
Course includes:
Lectures: Introduction to measurements of non-electric quantities. Examples of non-electrical sensors in medicine. Energy transfer in sensors. Static and dynamic properties of sensors. Intelligent sensors. Sensor networks. Temperature measurements. Measurements of selected mechanical values. Tensometric sensors of strength and pressure in medicine. Flow and vibration measurements and their examples in medicine. Magnetic field in medicine. Sound sensors. Microphone and their examples in medicine. Photo electric sensors. Semiconductor light sources. Semiconductor light sensors. Photo electric sensors in oximetry. Measurements of selected physical values. Humidity measurements. Density measurements. Viscosity measurements. Measurements of hydrogen ions concentration (pH). Absorption spectrometry, mass spectrometry, surface absorption. Liquid and gas chromatography. Basics of polarography and voltametry. Characteristics of selected polarography techniques. Introduction to biosensors. Medical and non-medical applications. Transmitter systems. Immunosensors. Biopotentials, microelectrodes, electrical phenomena of electrode-tissue interaction. Biomolecules and analytes, proteins, antibodies and nucleic acids, biomolecules immobilization, receptors and cells biosensors. Materials and preparation techniques. Electrochemical biosensors. Redox enzymes and mediators first, second and third generation. Cyclic voltametry, amperometry, potentiometry. Lab-on-a-chip, dry biotests, bioreactors, non-medical biosensors applications (in environmental protection, food industry). Developments in biosensors (implanted, miniaturized)
Laboratory: Extensometers and linear shift sensors. Temperature sensors. Magnetic field sensors. Pressure and humidity sensors. Analog- to- digital transducers. Viscosity measurements. Electrochemical measurements- volt amperometry. Ions concentration measurements due to different ions selected electrodes. Conductivity measurements. Spectrophotometry measurements.
Lecture: Audiovisual lectures, literature analysis
Laboratory: Practical exercises (individual or in student group)
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Lectures: Grade
Laboratoru: Grade
The final grade received by the student is the arithmetic mean of the above grades.
1. E. Hall, Biosensors, Open University Press, Biotechnology Series, Milton Keynes, 1991.
2. C. Kumar, Nanomaterials for Biosensors, Viley-VCH, 2007.
3. Sensors in medicine and health care / ed. by P. Ake Oberg, T. Togawa, F. A. Spelman.
4. MEMS/NEMS : handbook techniques and applications. Vol. 5, Medical applications and MOEMS / edited by Cornelius T. Leondes.
5. Nanoscale technology in biological systems / ed. by Ralph. S. Greco, Fritz B. Prinz, R. Lane Smith.
Modified by dr hab. inż. Katarzyna Arkusz, prof. UZ (last modification: 01-06-2023 12:27)
