Biomedical Engineering Degree
Students must also complete the Undergraduate Registration Requirement and the degree requirements of their home school.
Requirements (48 units)
Core Courses (27 units)1
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 4 mathematics courses | |
| 4 units of basic science: | |
| General Physics | |
| Molecular Biology | |
| Fundamentals of Chemistry I and Fundamentals of Chemistry II | |
| General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II | |
| Advanced General Inorganic Chemistry and Advanced General Physical Chemistry | |
| 4 engineering analysis and computer proficiency courses | |
| 3 design and communications courses | |
| 7 social sciences/humanities courses | |
| 5 unrestricted electives | |
Major Program (21 units)
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| Basic Engineering (5 courses) | |
Take all of these courses: | |
| Introduction to Biomedical Statistics | |
| Fluid Mechanics | |
| Fluid Mechanics I | |
| Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1.5 | |
Take 2 of the following 3 courses: | |
| Thermodynamics | |
| Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics - I | |
| Introduction to Biomechanics | |
| Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Principles | |
| Core courses (9 courses + 1 zero-credit seminar) | |
| Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (noncredit) | |
| Organic Chemistry I | |
| General Physics | |
| BME Lab: Experimental Design | |
| Quantitative Systems Physiology | |
| Quantitative Systems Physiology | |
| Quantitative Systems Physiology | |
| Biomedical Signals and Circuits | |
| Biomedical Systems Analysis | |
| Transport Fundamentals | |
| Biomedical Engineering Design | |
| Technical electives (7 units) | |
Take 7 units from the approved list below. 2 | |
Two units must be 300-level BME courses with 100% engineering topics. | |
Three total units must be 100% engineering topics (the two above courses plus one more). | |
Only 1 unit may be a graded, independent research course. | |
100-level courses are not permitted. | |
In addition to the courses listed below, CHEM 215-1, PHYS 135-3, BMD_ENG 250-0, BMD_ENG 271-0, and MAT_SCI 201-0 may also be used as technical elective courses as long as they are not used as core courses and as long as the rules above are satisfied. | |
Three, 0.34 unit basic science labs may also be combined and counted as a technical elective. There is no limit to the number of lab courses that can be used. | |
| Cell Biology | |
| Principles of Biochemistry | |
| Organic Chemistry II | |
| Organic Chemistry III | |
| Optics Laboratory | |
| Computational Genomics | |
| Biomedical Applications in Machine Learning | |
| Wearable Devices: From Sensing to Biomedical Inference | |
| Biochemical Sensors | |
| Introduction to Medical Imaging | |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
| Modern Optical Microscopy & Imaging | |
| Pharmaceutical Engineering: From Discovery to Therapeutics | |
| Biomaterials and Medical Devices | |
| Biological Performance of Materials | |
| Tissue Engineering | |
| Foundations of Regenerative Engineering | |
| Applications of Regenerative Engineering | |
| Bioelectronics | |
| Bioelectronics Lab | |
| Control of Human Limbs and Their Artificial Replacements | |
| Biomechanics of Movement | |
| Intermediate Fluid Mechanics | |
| Medical Devices, Disease & Global Health | |
| Health Systems Engineering | |
| Health Technology Management | |
| Biomedical Engineering Design | |
| Projects | |
| Introduction to Polymers | |
| Principles of Synthetic Biology | |
| Computational Biology: Analysis and Design of Living Systems | |
| Finite Element Methods in Mechanics | |
| Fundamentals of Computer Programming II | |
| Data Structures & Algorithms | |
| Data Management & Information Processing | |
| Introduction to Database Systems | |
| Machine Learning | |
| Introduction to Solid Modeling: Solidworks (0.5 unit) | |
| Advanced Solid Modeling (0.5 unit) | |
| Introduction to Computer Vision | |
| Deep Learning Foundations from Scratch | |
| Introduction to Feedback Systems | |
| Lasers and Coherent Optics | |
| Photonic Information Processing | |
| Introduction to Computational Neuroscience | |
| Introduction to Health Systems Management | |
| Materials Selection | |
| Introduction to Electron Microscopy | |
| Introduction to Robotics Laboratory | |
| Machine Dynamics | |
| Theory of Machines: Design of Elements | |
| Introduction to Mechatronics | |
| Stress Analysis | |
| Experiments in Micro- and Nano Science and Engineering | |
| Intro to Dynamic Systems | |
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See general requirements for details.
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The approved list of courses can be found on the BME Curriculum webpage and in the BME Undergraduate handbook.