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[ 554MPMTMMTK25 ] KV Medical Microsystems Technology

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3 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year (*)Medical Engineering Wolfgang Hilber 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Medical Engineering 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
  • Microfabrication: design and manufacture of microdevices for medical applications.
  • Device integration: development of integrated systems that combine sensors, actuators and communication.
  • Biocompatibility assessment: ensuring safe interaction with biological systems.
Skills Knowledge
  • Manufacture of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS): use of lithography, etching and deposition techniques, as well as additive technologies (k1 - k3))
  • Focus on microfluidics: use of microfluidic systems in medicine (k1 - k3)
  • Focus on sensors and actuators: Functionality and implementation of microsensors in medicine (k1 - k3)
  • Focus on data processing: analysing signals and outputs for medical diagnosis and monitoring (k4 - k5)
  • Basic concepts of microsystems
  • Materials for biomedical microsystems
  • Microfabrication techniques
  • Lab-on-a-chip principles
  • Sensor technologies (e.g. chemical, biological, physical)
  • Mechanisms of signal transduction
  • Design of implantable devices
  • Energy management in microsystems
  • Clinical applications of microsystems
  • Regulatory standards for medical devices
Criteria for evaluation Oral examination and/or preparation and presentation of a literature review on a topic by arrangement
Methods In the first part of the CT lecture with slides, in the second part of the CT independently created presentation by the participants on selected topics.
Language German
Study material Lecture slides, supplementary: Tian et al. ‘Microfluidics for Biological Applications’ ISBN 978 0 387 09479 3 Min-hang Bao ‘Handbook of Sensors and Actuators’ ISBN 978-0-444-50558-3
Changing subject? No
Further information none
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
554WMEMMMTK22: KV Medical Microsystems Technology (2022W-2025S)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants -
Assignment procedure Direct assignment