Introduction to Biomechanical Engineering

This module is about a Forensic Engineering Investigation in a Biomechanical Engineering context. It is about medical devices and the world-wide consequence of patients getting infected with dangerous bacteria.

You will first get a global case description in the next video. Then, we will make a plan for the investigation.

To properly investigate any case, you need to understand the technical system and its use and context in detail. Therefore, in Section 5.2 you will get to gather all the knowledge you need about a the medical device under investigation. You will also learn about its use, cleaning and construction. In Section 5.3 you will get all information from the actual Forensic Engineering Investigation, with lots of pictures, lab test results and interesting observations done while disassembling the suspected source of the problem.

Finally, in Module 6 we will talk about the outcome and the world-wide consequences of the case. But now, let’s first see what happened in the case of “Bacterial infections spread by ERCP-scopes”.