Programs of Study: Undergraduate Programs

Biomedical Engineering – Second Major
Class of 2010-2011

The second major in biomedical engineering is offered to engineering students and to liberal arts students. Students must enroll in conjunction with another undergraduate departmental major. For the second major in biomedical engineering, students are required to complete ten courses. No more than five of these courses may be used to fulfill the concentration requirement of the first major. All ten courses must be taken for a letter grade.

Design track (for engineering students)
Ten credits are required for the second major in biomedical engineering as follows:

  1. Biology 13
  2. Biomedical Engineering 50
  3. Biomedical Engineering 62
  4. Biomedical Engineering 100
  5. Biomedical Engineering 101 or Biomedical Engineering 131
  6. Biomedical Engineering 164
  7. One Biomedical Engineering elective course
  8. Two concentration elective courses from a list available from the department
  9. One elective course approved by the BME Second Major advisor
Systems track (for liberal arts students)
The ten credits required for the second major in biomedical engineering for liberal arts students (systems track) are as follows:

Two Core courses:
BME/EE/ES 50 - Intro. to Biomedical Engineering
BME/CBE/BIO 62 – Molecular Biotechnology

Eight Electives from the List Below. Other courses may be accepted with consent from advisor.

  • ANT 148 - Medical Anthropology
  • BIO 13 - Cells and Organisms
  • BIO 14 - Organisms and Population
  • BIO 41 - General Genetics
  • BIO 75 - Comparative Vert Physiology
  • BIO 115 - General Physiology I
  • BIO 116 - General Physiology II
  • BIO 132 - Biostatistics
  • BIO 134 - Neurobiology
  • BIO 152 - Biochem and Cell Metabolism
  • BIO 187 - Mammalian Central Nervous System
  • BME/EE 100 - Design of Medical Instrumentation
  • BME/EE 101 - Intro. to Medical Optics and Lasers
  • BME/EE/ES 121 - Engin. Challenges in Physiology I
  • BME/EE/ES 122 - Engin. Challenges in Physiology II
  • BME/EE/BIO 131 - Principles of Medical Imaging
  • CD 156 - App. Asp. of Physiological Development
  • CD 193 - Pediatrics Psychology
  • CEE 54 - Fund of Epidemiology
  • CEE 137 - Public Health
  • CEE 154 - Principles of Epidemiology
  • CEE 164 - Epidemiologic Methods
  • ChE 164 - Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
  • Chem 1 - Chemical Fundamentals
  • Chem 2 - Chemical Principles
  • Chem 135 - Biophysical Chemistry
  • Chem 157 - Medicinal Chemistry
  • Chem 171/172 - Biochemistry I/II
  • CH 1 - Intro to Community Health
  • COMP 131 - Artificial Intelligence
  • COMP 150bio Computational Biology
  • COMP 150cb Data Warehousing/Data Mining
  • COMP 171 - Human Computer Interaction
  • COMP 175 - Computer graphics
  • EE 133 - Digital Image Processing
  • EE 156 - Medical Optics Laboratory
  • ENP 161 - Human Factors in Product Design
  • ENP 162 - Man-Machine System Design
  • ES 3 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering
  • MATH 150 - Math. Models in Biology
  • ME 121 - Introduction to Biomaterials
  • OTS 105 - Assistive Technology
  • PHIL 121 - Ethical Theory
  • PHIL 124 - Bioethics
  • PHIL 131 - Epistemology
  • PHYS 11 - General Physics
  • PHYS 12 - General Physics
  • PSY 31 - Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
  • PSY 103 - Brain and Behavior
  • PSY 129 - Cognitive Neuroscience
  • SOC 108 - Epidemics: Plagues, Peoples and Politics
  • SOC 141 - Sociology of Medicine
  • UEP 281 - Chemicals, Health and the Environment
  • UEP 294B - Biotech.: Social & Environmental Issues

Notes:

  1. All full-credit Biomedical Engineering courses can be used instead of other courses to fulfill the requirements.
  2. With the exception of Biomedical Engineering courses, no more than 3 courses in any other single discipline can be counted.
  3. Students are encouraged to undertake an independent study, as an Elective, related to Biomedical Engineering at their senior year.
  4. Research, design projects and courses not listed here and related to Biomedical Engineering may be counted toward electives by consent of the Advisor.

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