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New BME CurriculumEngineering Faculty Document No. 27-03 Page 1 of 3 TO: The Engineering Faculty FROM: The Faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering RE: New Undergraduate Program Degree Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering The faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has approved the following new course requirements. This action is now submitted to the Engineering Faculty with a recommendation for approval. Reason: The proposed program degree requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering are to establish the minimum requirements for this new program. The proposed program degree requirements provide students with the necessary basic science and engineering knowledge and skills, integration of engineering and life sciences early and continuously throughout the program, and an exposure to other related engineering disciplines and to the breadth of the field of biomedical engineering. The proposed degree program is intended to satisfy ABET requirements for Biomedical Engineering. The plan of study provides students with an integrated and efficient pathway of course selection, allowing for diversification in the final year depending on student interest. George Wodicka Professor and Head Department of Biomedical Engineering Engineering Faculty Document No. 27-03 Page 2 of 3 B.S. BME Degree Program Requirements Minimum
Degree Requirements for Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (B.S.
BME) Credit Hours Required for Graduation:
130 Freshman Requirements:1 (31 credit hours; see Freshman
Engineering) 1 No
more than 8 credit hours of freshman calculus can be applied towards the BME
degree. Core Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Courses (18 credit hours): BME Breadth Requirement
(50 credit
hours): Core Life Sciences Requirement: BIOL
295E and three (3) additional Life Science courses* at the 300-level or above. Core Engineering Requirement: ABE
591W; ECE 301; IE 230*; ME 200, 270,
309; and MSE 230. (*or STAT 503) BME/Engineering Electives: Three (3) additional BME/Engineering
courses* at the 400-level or above. Senior Design Requirements: BME 405 Other Requirements:
CS 490B Advanced Physics (3 credit hours): PHYS 241 Advanced Math (7 credit hours): MA 261 and (MA 266 or MA 262) General Education Electives (18 credit hours): Course selections must meet the
General Education Program requirements. Refer to "General Education Program." Includes an ethics elective to be
chosen from either PHIL 270 or PHIL 280. Unrestricted
Elective (3
credit hours): Additional coursework to bring the total
to at least 130 hours. GPA Requirement: A Graduation Index of 2.0 or better is required to fulfill the BSBME
degree requirements. A minimum overall GPA of 2.0 is required in major-area
(BME) courses to qualify for graduation with a BSBME degree. * Selected from a list of courses approved by the
Biomedical Engineering faculty and maintained by the undergraduate advising
office. Engineering Faculty Document No. 27-03 December18, 2003 Page 3 of 3 Suggested Plan of Study Credit
Hours Required for Graduation: 130 Freshman Year, see Freshman Engineering ________________________________________________________________________ Sophomore Year ________________________________________________________________________ Third Semester Fourth
Semester (4) MA 261 Multivariate Calculus (3)
MA 266 Ordinary Differential Equations (3) PHYS 241 Electricity and Optics (3) MSE 230 Structure
and Properties Materials (3) BIOL 295E Biology
of the Living Cell (3) BME 204 Biomechanics Hard/Soft Tissue (3) BME 201 Biomolecules (1)
BME 206 BME Laboratory II (1) BME 205 BME Laboratory I (3) ME 200 Thermodynamics
I (3) ME 270
Basic Mechanics (3)
General education elective 17 16 Junior Year ________________________________________________________________________ Fifth Semester Sixth
Semester (3) BME 301 Bioelectricity (3) BME 304 Bioheat and Mass Transfer (2) BME 305 Bioinstrumentation Lab (1) BME 306
Biotransport Laboratory (1) BME 390 BME Professional Seminar (3) ECE 301 Signals
and Systems (4) ME 309 Fluid Mechanics (3) IE 230 Probability and Statistics in Engr. (3) Life Science elective (3) CS
490B Introduction Bioinformatics (3) General education elective (3) Ethics elective 16 16 Senior Year ________________________________________________________________________ Seventh Semester Eighth
Semester (3) ABE 591W Nonlinear
Dyn. Biol. Sys. (4) 405 BME Design
Project* (3) BME/Engineering
elective (*or
can be taken in the Fall) (3) BME/Engineering
elective (3) BME/Engineering
elective (3) Life Science elective (3) Life Science elective (3) General education
elective (3) General education
elective (3) Unrestricted elective (3) General education elective 18 16 |
