Previous Concentration Requirements

BME Undergraduate Concentration Requirements

Biomedical Engineering

All ScB programs in Engineering must be complemented by at least four courses in humanities and social sciences.  The minimum four-course humanities and social sciences requirements for the ScB in Engineering cannot be met by advanced placement credit.

Standard Program for the ScB degree:

1. Foundation Courses (all required):
1. ENGN 0030 Introduction to Engineering
2. ENGN 0040 Dynamics and Vibration
3. MATH 0190 (or MATH 0170)*
4. MATH 0200 (or MATH 0180) Intermediate Calculus*
5. BIOL 0200 (or NEUR 0010) Introductory Biology/Neuroscience**
6. APMA 0330 Methods in Applied Math
7. CHEM 0330 Inorganic Chemistry
8. CHEM 0350 Organic Chemistry
9. APMA 1650 or APMA 0650 Statistics
10. ENGN 0510 Electricity and Magnetism
11. ENGN 0720 Thermodynamics
12. ENGN 0810 Fluids Mechanics
13. ENGN 1230 Instrument Design
14. BIOL 0800 Physiology
* One math course can be replaced with CHEM 0360
** Advanced students (Premeds) can replace with BIOL 0470, BIOL 0530 or other biology courses
 

2. Upper level bioengineering courses (all required):
15. ENGN 1110 Transport and Biotransport Processes
16. ENGN 1490 Biomaterials
17. ENGN 1210 Biomechanics
 

3. Additional upper level bioengineering courses:
At least 1 from

  • BIOL 1140 Tissue Engineering
  • ENGN 1220 Neuroengineering
  • ENGN 1510 Nanoengineering and Nanomedicine
  • ENGN 1520 Cardiovascular Engineering
  • ENGN 1930B Biomedical Optics
  • ENGN 1931X Instrumentation for Research
  • ENGN 2910S Cancer Nanotechnology


At most 2 from

  • BIOL 1090 Polymer Science for Biology
  • BIOL 1150 Stem Cell Engineering
  • BIOL 1210 Synthetic Biology
  • BIOL 1260 Physiological Pharmacology
  • BIOL 1555 Methods in Biomedical Informatics
  • BIOL 1800 Animal Locomotion
  • BIOL 2020 Biotechnology Science and Industry
  • BIOL 2110 Drug and Gene Delivery
  • BIOL 2130 Techniques in Molecular and Cell Science
  • APMA 1070 Quantitative Methods for Biological Systems
  • CSCI 1430 Computer Vision
  • CLPS 1520 Computational Vision
  • PHP 1510 Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis
  • ENGN 1931L Biomedical Engineering Design and Innovation II
  • ENGN 2910G Topics in Translational Research
  • ENGN 2920D Environmental Technologies and Human Health

 

4. Capstone Design Course (required)
21. ENGN01930L Biomedical Engineering, Design, Research and Modeling
 

5. Independent Research (one recommended)
22. ENGN/BIOL 1970 Undergraduate research and design project
 

6. Other humanities and biology courses
23. - 32. open electives
‡ Premeds should take CHEM0360, BIOL0280 and two biology lab courses including BIOL0800