PhD Written Qualifying Exam
| TOPIC | FACULTY ADMINISTRATOR | DATE/TIME | REFERENCE WORKS/RESOURCES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomedical Microdevices | Dr. Koji Sode | Exam will be VIRTUAL on Jan 27 3pm until Jan 28 3pm (24 hours). The exam questions will be disclosed via zoom at the beginning of the exam | Topic: Biomolecular Sensing Technologies. PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: All reference links on Biomolecular Sensing Technologies |
| Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Brian Diekman | 48h take-home exam on Tuesday Feb 22 at 9 am and due Thursday Feb 24 at 9 am | Topic: Regenerative medicine approaches to muscle disorders (stem cells, gene therapy, genome editing, tissue engineering, etc). Students will have access to the reading materials during the exam time. PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: 2014 Rejuvenation of the muscle stem cell population; 2018 DMD correction human eng heart; 2019 Long-term evaluation of AAV-CRISPR genome; 2000 AAV minidystrophin DMD |
| Rehabilitation Engineering | Dr. Nitin Sharma | Take-home exam on March 24 at 9 am. The test will have two parts: a written component and a simulation and report component. You will have 48 hours to complete the exam. | Topic: Primary assistive devices to help rehabilitation of people with neurological disorders. PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: 2008 Optimizing Compliant, Model-Based Robotic Assistance to Promote Neurorehabilitation; 2012 Iterative learning control in health care; 2001 A myosignal-based powered exoskeleton system; 2005 Control method of robot suit HAL working as operator's muscle; 2007 Active-impedance control of a lower-limb assistive exoskeleton; 2015 Variable impedance control of redundant manipulators; 2009 A neuro-sliding-mode control with adaptive modeling of uncertainty |
| Biomedical Imaging | Dr. David Lalush | At-home exam: starts on April 20 by 9am, due April 22 by 11:00 PM. | Topic: Kinetic Modeling in PET Imaging PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: Background PET Kinetic Modeling 2004; Background_PET_Systems; Lammertsma_SRTM_Paper_1996 |
| Pharmacoengineering | Dr. Shawn Gomez | Remote Take Home Exam held on Wednesday May 25th from 9 am, to be returned by May 26th 9 am. | PhD Qualifying Exam Reading Materials: PhD Qualifying Exam Overview; Mathematical Modelling of an outbreak of zombie Infection |
| Biomedical Microdevices | Dr. Michael Daniele | Take Home Exam. Prof will send out June 13 by 8:00 AM and it should be returned by June 15 at 8:00 AM. | Topic: Fundamentals & Applications of Biomedical Microdevices & Sensors. PhD Qualifying Exam Overview and Reading Materials |
| Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Donald Freytes | Take-home exam, prof will submit by 5pm on July 22 and it will be due a week later, by midnight on July 29. | PhD Qualifying Exam Reading Materials: Cell 2006 Takahashi; Nature Protocols 2008 by Park; Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2012 by Bellin; Science 1998 Thomson; Stem Cells 2007 Chamberlain; Stem Cells 2014 by Feng-Juan Lv |
| Rehabilitation Engineering | Dr. Jacque Cole | August 2022- TBD | August 2022- TBD |
| Biomedical Imaging | Dr. Alon Greenbaum | September 2022- TBD | September 2022- TBD |
| Pharmacoengineering | Dr. Yevgeny Brudno | October 2022- TBD | October 2022- TBD |
| Biomedical Microdevices | Dr. William Polacheck | November 2022- TBD | November 2022- TBD |
| Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Roger Narayan | December 2022- TBD | December 2022- TBD |
| Regnerative Medicine | Dr. Scott Magness | PAST EXAM: August 12, 2021 Take home exam 10am-12p | Topic: Stem cell Concepts: In vivo tissue regeneration and ex vivo tissue engineering. Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: 1) Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine 2) Regeneration of Damaged Cells 3) Mesenchymal Stem Cells 4) Stem Cell Progeny 5) Nature Year in Review 2016 |
| Rehabilitation Engineering | Dr. Derek Kamper | PAST EXAM: An in-class exam portion will be held on Wed, Sept. 29 from 10am -12pm. A take-home portion will be due on Thursday, Sept. 30 at noon. | Rehabilitation PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: 1) Chen_Smart crutches 2) Debarba_Virtual Reality2017 3) Dingwell_Neurophysiol_2002 4) Lambercy_Grip Control 5) Maimon_Prosthetic Limb 6) Nabeshima_Advanced Robotics 7) Ranzini_Neurocognitive Robot-assisted Rehabilitation |
| Biomedical Imaging | Dr. Gianmarco Pinton | PAST EXAM: October 27, 2021, at 9 am | Topic: Ultrasound Imaging Methods. Reading Materials: 1) Contrast_agents 2) Elastography 3) Functional_ultrasound 4) Harmonic_imaging 5) Synthetic_aperture 6) Therapy_overview 7) Time_reversal *Additional background: Foundations of Biomedical Ultrasound (Biomedical Engineering) by Richard S. C. Cobbold. Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Pharmacoengineering | Dr. David Zaharoff | PAST EXAM: Exam on November 19, 9-11am in 4142 EB3 | Topic: Biologics Delivery Systems. PhD Qualifying Exam Overview Reading Materials: 1) Akash 2015-Natural and Synthetic Polymers as Drug Carriers 2) Kim 2014-Natural and synthetic biomaterials 3) Silva 2015-Delivery Systems for Biopharmaceuticals Part I 4) Silva 2015-Delivery Systems for Biopharmaceuticals Part II 5) Vishwakarma 2016-Engineering Immunomodulatory Biomaterials 6) What Makes Biologics Unique 7) Zhao 2017-Polycationic vectors for gene delivery |