An overview of graduate and undergraduate programs is given, including a brief history of each. With respect to undergraduate studies, the issues of accreditation, department status versus option programs, employment, registration, and medical and professional school opportunities are examined. Enrollment trends are examined. A survey of biomedical engineering textbooks and a bibliography containing 102 references are given in an appendix.
A negative resistance (NR) element for a novel static memory cell that uses enhanced surface generation of MOS devices is proposed. Such a memory cell will require extremely small current to maintain information and the control circuitry can be the same as in one-transistor dynamic memories. The mechanism of operation is discussed and some experimental data are presented. It is shown that in order to maintain information in a single static memory cell, the required current can be as low as a few picoamperes.
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