Undergrad Labs

Biofluids Laboratory

In the fall of 2004, the Department of Biomedical Engineering officially opened two new undergraduate labs in Wishnick Hall (WH) on the main IIT campus. The Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory in WH 319 and the Biofluids Laboratory in WH 318.

BME 315, the Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory Course, is the first of four core undergraduate biomedical engineering laboratory courses. This course is designed to teach chemical, mechanical, optical and electrical measurement and data acquisition techniques to students in all three biomedical engineering tracks.

BME 320, the Biomedical Fluids Mechanics Laboratory Course is the second core laboratory course in BME. The goal of this course is to teach students the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and their application to biological fluids and biomedical devices.  This undergraduate teaching laboratory (shown above) contains ten workstations with state of the art manual and computerized equipment.  Each individual station is equipped with a Brookfield cone and plate viscometer with computerized data acquisition capability, low and high volumetric flow rate pumps with computerized controllers, semi-automatic tensiometers, micro contact angle meters, conductivity probes, Cannon-Fenske viscometers, various pressure gauges, among other smaller items.