(Department)  Biomedical Engineering         (Division)      Bioelectric
 
 (Level and Major)  BSc
 

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Course Title                 Technical English for Biomedical Engineering
 
Number of Credits       2             Prerequisite General English II
 
 

Course Description:
This course strengthens the English background of the students who would like to pursue their academic and professional careers in the biomedical engineering field.
 
Course Goals and Objectives:
The objectives of the course are as follows:
1) To familiarize them with medical terminology
2) To improve the students’ skills in writing, listening, presentation, and comprehension of various contents in biomedical engineering
 
Course Topics:

• Grammatical review: tenses, active and passive
• Grammatical review: auxiliary verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
• Review of Latin roots in medical terminology: prefixes
• Review of Latin roots in medical terminology: suffixes
• Selected topics in bioelectric
• Selected topics in biomechanics
• Selected topics in biomaterials
• Review of writing rules
• Translation
• Article writing
• Review of presentation rules
• Seminars

 
The course aims to:
The learning outcomes of the course are as follows:
1) The ability to identify and translate key medical terms
2) The ability to comprehend biomedical engineering contents 
3) The ability to write and present short technical reports
 
Reading Resources:
Janson Cohen, B. (2011). Medical terminology; an illustrated guide.
 
Evaluation
Participants’ progress is monitored and evaluated throughout the course by listening, writing, translation, and presentation assignments, as well as midterm and final exams.