Informatics. From the mechanical calculator to the modern calculator. Von Neumann's machine. Boolean algebra. Logic Gates and Fuzzy Logic. Representing Numbers, Characters, Pixels. Files and Hardware (Hard Disk, Solid State Drive, Optical Discs); Files and Operating System; Text and image files and processing applications. Algorithms: Block Diagrams and Flow Diagrams; Program and Compiler. Numerical Processing: Spreadsheet and Excel; Image Processing (Resolution, Contrast, Median Filter; Edge Recognition).
Electronics. Electric Forces and Charges; Coulomb's law; Electric field; Potential Energy and Electric Potential; Equipotential Surfaces, Insulators and Conductors, Electric Current. Magnetic field; Relationship between Electricity and Magnetism: Ampère's Experiment, Electromagnetic Induction, Lorentz Force. Electromagnetic Radiation: Period of Oscillation and Wavelength, Frequency Spectrum. The LASER. Capacitance and Capacitors. Electrical resistance. Batteries. Power absorbed and delivered. Electric circuit, mesh and node, Kirchhoff's laws. Resistors in Series and Parallel. Ammeter and Voltmeter. Electrical systems and safety: life-saving switch, grounding, effects of electric current on the body
Bioengineering. Subthreshold electrical model of the axon, Action Potential. Microneurography: acquisition and processing. Electrodermal activity: measurement, Tonic and Phasic Component. Computed Tomography: x-ray tube, braking and characteristic radiation, absorption and scattering, sensors, scanning and image reconstruction, CT number, windowing, multiplanar reconstruction. Blood Pressure: Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic pressure, Laplace's Law, pressure in a Cardiac Chamber, Arterial Pressure Wave and its propagation in the circulatory system. Blood pressure measurement: invasive; non-invasive with cuff (Riva-Rocci / Korotkov sphygmomanometer and oscillometric method). Wearable Sphygmomanometers: Invasive, Non-Invasive with Oscillometric Cuff, Non-Invasive without Cuff: Applanation Tonometry, Pulse Transit Time, Pulse Arrival Time, Slope Transit Time.