Engineering Faculty Document #43-04

                                                                                                                       April 21, 2005

To:         Faculty of the Schools of Engineering

From:     Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Subject:  New Undergraduate Level Course

The Faculty of the School of Biomedical Engineering has approved the following new course and submits it for your approval.

BME 498 Advanced Projects in Biomedical Engineering. Sem. 1 and 2. SS. Cr. 1-4.  Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and consent of instructor.  (May be repeated for credit.)           Individual research or design projects for students with previous research or design experience.  Project to be approved by the supervising faculty member before registering for the course.  Approved written and oral reports are required.

Reason:  The School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) was recently formed to coordinate the training of B.S. level students in this field.  This course addition is made to allow for advanced projects to be undertaken by junior and senior level students developing their research and design skills in the Biomedical Engineering field.

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G. R. Wodicka, Professor and Head

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering