This course provides the basic skill and technique to conduct a biomechanical experiment. This course includes how to defining a problem as a system, building a model, designing an experiment, and analysing the data. The principle and application of many biomedical transducers, which measures the temperature, flow, force, and displacement will be introduced. The technique of analysing the data, i.e., the signal processing, noise and measurement error reduction, will be presented. Systems identification and application on the biological system will also be illustrated. In the end, the application of statistics will be introduced.

Topic include:

(1)What is a system?
(2)Biomedical transducers for measurement of temperature, flow, force, displacement
(3)Design and development of electronic instrumentation for biomedical variables
(4)Signals, noises, and measurement errors
(5)Systems identification
(6)Application of control theory to biological systems
(7)Statistics