1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SP602 Special Project
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Corequisites:
nil Assessment: reports
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Content
This project gives students training in carrying out a
technical investigation.
Students work individually, or in small groups, under staff
supervision, on a major investigation project chosen from
some area of biomedical instrumentation.
Projects are chosen by students, after consultation with staff,
from a list developed by staff. Proiects are usually associated
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with departmental research interests, or are proposed by
cooperative employers, but can be suggested by students.
They are chosen to develop students' technical knowledge,
self-educative skills and initiative, and may be limited by
available departmental resources.
Each project requires a literature survey, and a theoretical
investigation. Results, conclusions and recommendations are
presented in a written report, and an oral report may also be
required.
Special lectures are given on the subjects of entrepreneurial
skills and technology transfer.
SP610 Instrumentation Systems A
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:
SP510 Assessment: project rtport and presentation
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation) and (Computing
and Instrumentation)
Objectives
To develop team cooperation, organisational skills and
project development strategies for use in an open-ended
team project.
To develop communication skills (both verbal and
written)
Content
This subject builds on the project work and
communications skills developed during the industry based
!f learning program.
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Students work (in teams) on a project with definite goals,
using limited resources. Projects can either be hardware,
software or a combination of both.
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" SP623 Industry Based Learning
50 credit points Hawthorn Prerequisites: SPS23 Industry
Based Learning
A third year industrial based learning subject of the degree
of Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing and
Instrumentation)
Content
A six-month period of industry based learning occurring as
part of the third year of the course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing and
Instrumentation). Students are supervised by a member of
the academic staff and are required to submit a report to
their employer and to their supervisor. This program is
normally taken end-on from SP523.
SP624 Biophysics (Neurosciences B)
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:
SPS24 Corequisite: nil Assessment: examination,
assignments and laboratory reports
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
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To provide knowledge of basic and advanced EEG
recording techniques.
To provide knowledge of sensory physiology of the
visual and auditory systems.
Content
The auditory system and the vestibular apparatus acoustics
of the outer ear, sound transmission within the ear,
peripheral organisation of receptors and CNS pathways,
peripheral mechanisms and neural organisation of vestibular
mechanisms, pathophysiology of auditory vestibular
function, auditory and vestibular testing techniques, evoked
potentials, cortex, brain stem, ENG, auditory prostheses.
Vision anatomy of the eye, optics of visual system, receptor
function central pathways, central processing, electrical
recording of ERG, EOG, visual evoked response,
intraocular pressure, recording, examination, pathology,
assessment, adaptation, acuity, perimetry, spatial frequency.
EEG origin, recording, interpretation, analysis.
Neurophysiological signal processing basic concepts and
methodology.
Recommended reading
Gevins, A.S. and Remond, A. (eds), Methods of Analysis of Brain
Electrical and Magnetic Signals, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1987
Piaon, T.W. (ed.), Human Event-Related Potentials. Amsterdam,
Elsevier, 1988
Rhoades, R. and Pflanzer, R., Human Physiology. 2nd edn, Fort
Worth, Tex., Saunders, 1992
Others as advised by lecturers
SP625 Applied Biophysics B
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:
SPSOI Assessment: examination, assignment and laboratory
reports
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
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To investigate and examine the biophysical principles
underlying medical imaging, the physical therapies,
biomaterials and the health effects of the physical
environment.
Content
Medical imaging: ultrasound, nuclear methods, X-ray, CT
scan, NMR (MRI), PET. Biological effects of radiation.