Bioengineering in Extreme Environments - Softcover

Frame, Mary D; Frame, Lesley D; Smith, Katherine L

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798823362498

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Bioengineering in Extreme Environments supports students' education in both technology and the natural world. Students learn about natural science, human body responses, and various technologies that enable or could enable humans to thrive in extreme environments. The text demystifies technology for readers, demonstrating that many technologies are simply well-developed solutions to everyday problems.

Over the course of 12 chapters, students visit Death Valley, Antarctica, the Great Salt Lake, Chernobyl, Jupiter, Mt. Everest, and other extreme locations to learn about their environments, effects on the human body, and the types of technology they each would require for human survival. Each chapter includes learning objectives, the core text, and instructions and assignments for small groups.

The second edition has been revised to include the most up-to-date information available in each chapter, as well as new figures and images throughout the text.

Bioengineering in Extreme Environments is an ideal textbook for undergraduate general education courses in science and the natural world.

About this title

About the Authors

Mary D. Frame is a professor of biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University, where she teaches courses in biomedical engineering, bioengineering in extreme environments, and more. She holds a Ph.D. in physiology and an A.B. in biology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Lesley D. Frame is an assistant professor of materials science and engineering in the Institute of Materials Science and the director of the Center for Materials Processing Data at the University of Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and an S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Katherine L. Smith is an environmental engineer at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii. She previously was a ground safety officer at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, and after 12 years in the USMC (Staff Sergeant), she obtained a B.A. in environmental policy at the University of California San Diego.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798823362498
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 190