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Summary:
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The purpose of this course is to
provide undergraduate engineering students with an introduction to
physiological concepts and selected physiological control systems present
in the human body. Due to the scope and complexity of this field,
this course will not cover all physiological control systems but rather a
selected few such as the neuromuscular, cardiovascular, and endocrine
control systems. This course will also provide an introduction to the
structures and mechanisms responsible for the proper functioning of these
systems. This course will combine linear control theory, physiology,
and neuroscience with the objective of explaining how these complex systems
operate in a healthy human body.
The first part of the course will provide an introduction into physiology
and give an overview of the main physiological systems. The second part of
the course will focus on the endocrine system and its subsystems, including
glucose regulation, thyroid metabolic hormones, and the menstrual cycle.
The third part of the course will include discussion on the cardiovascular
system and related aspects such as cardiac output, venous return, control of blood flow by the tissues, and nervous
regulation of circulation. The fourth and final section of the course
will focus on the central nervous system, the musculoskeletal system, proprioception, kinesthetic,
and control of voluntary motion.
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