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Dr. Erisken is currently teaching BME 309 Tissue Engineering and BME 311 Biomechanics.

Previous Courses

TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, TR

Biomedical Engineering Department

BME 540 Advanced Biomaterials (8 students)

This course is designed to guide students for the utilization of biomaterials in the field of biomedical engineering, with emphasis on understanding their synthesis, characterization and application. This course will cover some of the widely used biomaterials in regenerative/biomedical engineering. The students will pick up a biomaterial of their interest, and they will search for the methods of synthesis of the material, its processing to form a scaffold, implant, etc., characterization and application in biomedical engineering. They are expected to present their findings as well as to contribute to discussions in the classroom.

BME 530 Contemporary Subjects in Tissue Engineering (6 students)

Dr. Erisken lectured for this course in Summer-2015 semester. This course is designed to cover the most recent advancements in different areas of applications of tissue engineering. The topics in this course will include tissue engineering strategies such as i) compositional, structural and functional analysis of different tissues in the body, ii) design, fabrication and utilization of scaffold biomaterials and iii) cellular engineering including cell therapy, drug delivery; as well as cell-biomaterial interactions. Recent advances and major problems relevant to tissue engineering will also be presented and discussed.

Instructor presents relevant topics in the class and guides students when needed. Each student chooses an area of application and advance her/his knowledge in the particular area of tissue engineering. The areas could be selected from the list provided by the instructor or independently depending on student’s area of interest.

BME 442 Polymer-based biomaterials

This course is designed to motivate student learning for the application of polymer-based biomaterials in the field of biomedical engineering, with emphasis on understanding their synthesis, processing, characterization and application. This course will cover some of the widely used synthetic and natural polymers including polylactic acid, polycaprolactone, chitosan, polyacetals, dendrimers, elastomers, degradable hydrogels, non-degradable polymers (polyethylene, polyurethane, polymethylmetacrylate), etc. During the semester we will discuss these topics in the context of polymeric biomaterials for wound healing and orthopedic tissue regeneration applications. Students will contribute to discussions through performing market search on relevant products (hydrogels), and proposing novel bioactive constructs (grafts, scaffolds) for their applications, as well as identify methods for characterization and production.

BME 432 Biocompatiblity (20 students)

This course is designed to motivate student learning in the field of biocompatibility, with emphasis on understanding the ability of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific situation. Biocompatibility covers the host responses to biomaterials and medical devices as well as the responses of these to physiological conditions.

The variables that could influence the host response such as material composition, structure, morphology, crystallinity, porosity, surface chemical composition are discussed. The problems that may arise with the exposure of materials to the human body including undesired accumulation of proteins and cells, granulation tissue formation, immune cell responses, tumor formation are also presented.

BME 311 Biomechanics (33 students)

This course is designed to cover the basics and applications of biomechanics principals (i.e. kinematic, dynamic, static). The topics in this course will include skeletal muscle system, biomechanics of lower and upper extremity bones, spine biomechanics as well as cell biomechanics. More specifically, the students are expected to learn about biomechanics of bone, articular cartilage, tendons and ligaments, peripheral nerves and spinal nerve roots, skeletal muscle, knee, hip, foot and ankle, lumbar spine, cervical spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, fracture fixation, arthroplasty, and gait. Recent advances and major problems relevant to cell/tissue/organ biomechanics will also be presented and discussed.

BME 309 Tissue Engineering (22 students)

This course is designed to cover the basics and applications of tissue engineering as an emerging therapeutic approach to treat degenerated or damaged tissues/organs. The topics in this course includes tissue engineering strategies such as design, fabrication and utilization of biomaterials; cellular engineering including cell therapy, drug delivery; as well as cell-biomaterial interactions. Recent advances and major problems relevant to tissue engineering are also presented and discussed.

Columbia University, New York, New York

Biomedical Engineering Department

BMEN E6001x Advanced Scaffold Design and Engineering Complex Tissues (10 students)

Dr. Erisken lectured for this course in Spring-2011 and Fall-2011 semesters on the topics of “Electrospinning: Process, modeling and applications in tissue engineering” and “Nanofiber scaffolds for complex tissue engineering: applications for tissue-tissue interfaces”, respectively. This course provides systematic approach for advanced biomaterial selection and biomimetic scaffold design for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. It also covers the formulation of bio-inspired design criteria, scaffold characterization and testing, and applications on forming complex tissues or organogenesis.

New York University, New York, New York

Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics

Bioceramics G17.1003 (35 students)

Dr. Erisken lectured for this course in Spring-2010 and Spring-2011 semesters on the topics of “Fabrication of functionally graded composite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications” and “Polymer-ceramic nanofibrous composite matrices for complex tissue engineering”, respectively. The course is structured to train students in the fundamentals of composite biomaterials, their fabrication, use as bone substitutes, and application for the engineering of bony tissues.

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department

ChE 210 Process Analysis (40 students)

Assisted in the preparation of course materials and tutored problem solution sessions, evaluated homework assignments, mid-terms and final examinations. This course aims at giving an introduction to the most important processes employed by the chemical industries, such as biochemical, pharmaceutical, plastics, chemical, and petrochemical. The major emphasis is on formulating and solving material and energy balances for simple and complex systems. Equilibrium concepts for chemical process systems are developed and applied.

ChE 432 Chemical Engineering Laboratory (24 students)

Taught, supervised and evaluated lab sessions on unit operations including distillation, crystallization, fluid flow dynamics, principles and operation of shell and tube heat exchangers. It is a laboratory course designed to illustrate and apply chemical engineering fundamentals. The course covers a range of experiments involving mass, momentum and energy transport processes and basic unit operations.

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Department of Chemical Engineering

ChE 352 Heat Transfer Operations (50 students)

Assisted in the preparation of course materials and tutored problem solution sessions, evaluated homework assignments, mid-terms and final examinations. This course provides fundamental molecular mechanisms of heat transfer described by Fourier's law. Also provided are transport of heat in turbulent regime, heat transfer by radiation, and heat transfer to fluids with phase change.