Teaching

Professor Nikkhah has developed and taught the following courses:

BME 340, “Thermodynamics for Biomedical Engineering”, Undergraduate Level, 

Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015

BME 342 focuses on application of conservation and accounting principles with non-ideal property estimation techniques model phase and chemical equilibrium processes. By the end of this course the students are able to: 1) List the fundamental thermodynamic “Laws” and explain their relationship to conservation and accounting principles; 2) Explain the interrelationships among thermodynamic properties; 3) Find the many forms of thermodynamic data (tables, graphs, equations of state) and use them to find pressure, volume, or temperature, or vice-versa; 4) Use thermodynamic relationships and thermodynamic data to estimate pure species properties; 5) Use the fundamental relation of phase equilibrium to estimate condensed phase properties from gas phase properties and vice-versa; 6) Calculate mixed species, mixed phase equilibrium thermodynamic properties; 7) Solve reaction equilibrium problems.

BME 598, “Biomedical Microdevices”, Graduate Level,

Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014

“Biomedical Microdevices” is an interdisciplinary senior and graduate level course, which introduces the students to the design and development of miniaturized systems for a wide range of biomedical applications from medical diagnostics to drug discovery and regenerative medicine. The main focus is to understand the fundamentals and basic concepts underlying the use of micro- and nanofabrication technologies in the fields of biology and medicine (BioMEMS). This course will cover the following topics: 1) Scaling laws, 2) Fundamentals of microfabrication techniques including photolithography and soft lithography, 3) A brief overview on cellular structure and cytoskeleton, 4) Fundamentals of microfluidics design and lab-on-chip systems, 5) Recent advances in designing microscale diagnostics and organ-on-chip devices, 6) A brief overview on the use of microscale technologies in the field of tissue engineering. The course is highly interactive, emphasizing teamwork, student presentation and class discussion.

ASU 101, “The ASU Experience; Biomedical Engineering”, Undergraduate Level,

Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2014, Fall 2014

ASU 101-BME has been created to help students to be successful at ASU and as a biomedical engineer. The course is a required, semester long, one-credit course offered in sections capped at 19, designed to introduce all new first-time students to the unique elements, culture, challenges, and opportunities of biomedical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.