Peer-reviewed literature - a resource for teaching mathematical modeling to undergraduates in biomedical engineering

The peer-reviewed literature provides a rich resource for mathematical models of human physiology that can be used in undergraduate education. Students in a human physiology for engineers course at North Carolina State University used SIMULINK® to reproduce published physiological models. Most teams were able to implement at least part of their selected model successfully. Some teams benefited by contacting the authors of the papers, an exercise that the teams recommended for future classes. All teams used differential equations to describe a physiological process, thus addressing one of the ABET program criteria for bioengineering.