Cellular Solids Part 2: Applications in Medicine

Offered By: Massachusetts Institute of Technology via edX

Course Description

Overview

In this engineering course, we will explore cellular solids in medicine, including trabecular bone mechanics, the increased risk of bone fracture due to trabecular bone loss in patients with osteoporosis, the development of metal foam coatings for orthopedic implants, applying foam models to tissue engineering scaffolds and the design of a porous scaffold for tissue engineering that mimics the body's own extracellular matrix.

This course should be taken with 3.054.1x: Cellular Solids Part 1.

Taught by

Lorna J. Gibson and Jessica Sandland

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