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High-Resolution Touch Sensor Could Be Boon To Cancer Surgeons, Others
High-Resolution Touch Sensor Could Be Boon To Cancer Surgeons, Others
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: News Releases
Lincoln, Neb., June 8, 2006 -- One of the trickiest decisions facing a cancer surgeon today is where to stop cutting. The surgeon doesn't want to stop too soon and leave cancer cells in the patient's body, but he or she also doesn't want to take too many cells and do unnecessary damage to organs. That decision could soon be made much easier, though, thanks to a high-resolution touch sensor developed by chemical engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that may allow surgeons to tell at the level of a single layer of cells whether or not they have excised …
Teaching Coupled Transport And Rate Processes, Yaşar Demirel
Teaching Coupled Transport And Rate Processes, Yaşar Demirel
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: News Releases
Coupling refers to a flux occurring without its primary thermodynamic driving force; for example, mass flux without a concentration gradient called the thermal diffusion is a well-known coupled process. Coupling also refers to a flux occurring in a direction opposite to the direction imposed by its driving force; for example, a mass flux can occur from a low to a high concentration region and is called the active transport or uphill transport, such as potassium and sodium pumps coupled to chemical energy released by the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in biological systems. Although the coupled processes seem to be …
Teaching Engineering Courses With Workbooks, Yaşar Demirel
Teaching Engineering Courses With Workbooks, Yaşar Demirel
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: News Releases
Society expects that a modem college education will turn out students who are analytical. intellectually curious, culturally aware, employable, and capable of leadership. Some important skills needed for all degree programs are problem solving, communication (written and oral), team or group work, learning and information processing, and technology. Instructors feel rewarded and satisfied when they sense that they have made a difference in the life of a student.