BME 101
This branch of BME applies principles of mechanics to biological systems such as bones, muscles, and joints.
What is biomechanics?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is located in this New York city.
What is Troy?
This professor's favorite game series include Final Fantasy and Resident Evil.
Who is Dr. Lee?
Doctors commonly use this acoustic device to listen to heart and lung sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A material designed to interact with a biological system for a medical purpose is known by this term.
What is a biomaterial?
RPI was founded on this year.
What is 1824?
This professor did their undergrad at RPI, and was part of BMES.
Who is Dr. Puleo?
Usually clipped onto a finger, this device uses light to noninvasively estimate blood oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
The character Link is the protagonist of this famous Nintendo game series.
What is The Legend of Zelda?
In the linear elastic region of a stress-strain curve, stress divided by strain gives this material property.
What is Young's modulus?
This man founded what was originally called the Rensselaer School.
Who is Stephen Van Rensselaer?
This professor once took a two-month camping trip to Alaska.
Who is Dr. Thompson?
This implanted device can deliver electrical impulses to help control an abnormally slow or irregular heartbeat.
What is a pacemaker?
The chemical symbol Au represents this element.
What is gold?
This field combines cells, scaffolds, and biological signals with the goal of repairing or replacing damaged tissues.
What is Tissue Engineering?
Name RPI's two traditional school colors.
What are cherry and white?
Name BOTH professors: One previously worked at GE Global Research, while another interned at Parke Davis.
Who are Dr. Puleo and Dr. Thompson?
When the kidneys cannot adequately filter the blood, this machine can remove waste products and excess fluid from the bloodstream.
What is a dialysis machine?
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are central figures in this 2016 film about NASA.
What is Hidden Figures?
This term describes the ability of a medical material or device to perform its intended function without causing an unacceptable biological response.
What is biocompatibility?
The institution officially adopted the name "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" in this year.
What is 1861?
Match all three professors to the activity: Magic: The Gathering, rowing with the Aqueduct Rowing Club, and skiing.
Dr. Lee = Magic
Dr. Puleo = rowing
Dr. Thompson = skiing
Often abbreviated with four letters, this system removes blood from the body, oxygenates it externally, and returns it to support severe heart or lung failure.
What is ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)?
Players cast spells using mana in five colors in this trading card game first released in 1993.
What is Magic: The Gathering?