2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine

Outline of Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine II

Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine
Instructor(s): Tohru Yagi / Kentaro Nakamura / Tetsuya Kitaguchi / Yutaka Miura / Shunichiro Ogura / Tso-Fu Chang / Takashi Tokuda / Hirokazu Tamamura
Class Format: Lecture (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 3-4 Fri
Class: -
Course Code: STM.C405
Number of credits: 100
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 3Q
Syllabus updated: Sep 19, 2025
Language: English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Students learn the basics and appilications in the field of life engineering ranging over biomechanics, biosensing, informatics, thermodynamics, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, molecular, biology, neuro-engineering, mechanical engineering, catalysis,etc.

Course description and aims

To perform interdisciplinary research in the field of life engineering, students learn the basics and appilications of biomechanics, biosensing, informatics, thermodynamics, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, molecular, biology, neuro-engineering, mechanical engineering, catalysis,etc.

Keywords

life engineering, biomechanics, biosensing, informatics, thermodynamics, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, molecular, biology, neuro-engineering, mechanical engineering, polymer science

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Lectures give lectures on the basics for researches in their own research fields

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Development of cancer diagnosis and therapy	What is cancer? Development of cancer diagnosis. Development of cancer therapy.
Class 2	Introduction to electro-acoustics	To learn the physics of sound To understand the structure and principle of loudspeaker and microphone To understand the concept of electric equivalent circuit model
Class 3	R&D on neural interface to connect human and machine	To understand the basics of neurophysiology and neuroanatomy. To learn neural interfaces. To understand the problems of the current neural interfaces.
Class 4	Polymer Science in the development of medicines and cosmetics	Acquire knowledge of polymer material science in medicines and cosmetics on the market and our surroundings.
Class 5	Molecular mechanism of body axis formation	Learn how the body axis, character of cells, and the number and location of organs are determined during the developmental process.
Class 6	Medicinal chemistry and chemical biology
Class 7	Bioinspired photocatalytic materials	Photocatalysis is of great significance for solving the problem of environement pollution, achieving carbon neutrality, and building a sustainable society. In order to develop highly efficient photocatalysts, it is necessary to draw innovative inspiration from nature.

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

See course materials.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Materials used in class can be found on T2SCHOLA.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Quiz at the course session and attendance. If misconduct, such as plagiarism or misappropriation of someone else's work is committed, we will treat it strictly： The grade of the subject will be 0.

Related courses

HCB.C421 ： Outline of Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering I

Prerequisites

No prior conditions