5 ECTS credits
130 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4020704FNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under agreement for exchange of courses
- Faculty
- Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
- Department
- Electronics and Informatics
- External partners
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Educational team
- Antoine Nonclercq
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 24 contact hours Lecture
36 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
Lectures (2 ECTS)
- Introduction
- Electrical safety
- Electrical safety - exercise: fault current in stimulation implants
- Biopotential amplifiers – advanced designs
- Stimulation of excitable tissues
- Cardiac pacemakers
- Implanted stimulation and recording devices
The group project aims to build an embedded bioelectronics systems (3 ECTS). Typical design steps include:
- General design of the system
- Electronic circuit implementation: design, layout (Altium), manufacture, debugging
- Firmware implementation and debugging
- Silicone encapsulation
- System testing
- Additional info
Under construction.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Learning outcomes
- Design and implementation of a typical biomedical system, including major hardware (power, acquisition, stimulation …) and software (firmware) features.
- Design of a biomedical system in compliance with medical standards
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Under construction.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Electrical Engineering: Standaard traject BRUFACE J