Teaches the fundamentals of mass transport with a unique approach emphasizing engineering principles in a biomedical environment * includes a basic review of physiology, chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, mass transport, fluid mechanics and relevant mathematical methods * teaches engineering principles and mathematical modelling useful in the broad range of problems that students will encounter in their academic programs as well as later on in their careers * illustrates principles with examples taken from physiology and medicine or with design problems involving biomedical devices * stresses the simplification of problem formulations based on key geometric and functional features that permit practical analyses of biomedical applications * offers a web site of homework problems associated with each chapter and solutions available to instructors homework problems related to each chapter are available from a supplementary website (