Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams on a spacewalk in 2006. (NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Charles M. Oman
Dr. Laurence R. Young
Dr. Alan Natapoff
MIT Course Number
16.459
As Taught In
Fall 2011
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Description
Each term, the class selects a new set of professional journal articles on bioengineering topics of current research interest. Some papers are chosen because of particular content, others are selected because they illustrate important points of methodology. Each week, one student leads the discussion, evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and importance of each paper. Subject may be repeated for credit a maximum of four terms. Letter grade given in the last term applies to all accumulated units of 16.459.