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 |
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4 mathematics courses | |
4 units of basic science: 2 | |
General Physics and General Physics | |
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 |
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Basic Engineering (5 courses) | |
Take all of these courses: | |
Introduction to Biomedical Statistics | |
or IEMS 303-0 | 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 (10 courses + 1 zero-credit seminar) | |
Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (noncredit) | |
Molecular Biology | |
Organic Chemistry I | |
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 | |
Biomedical engineering electives (4 courses) | |
Technical electives (2 courses) | |
Any engineering, science, or mathematics courses at the 300 level or higher, provided they are graded. The following courses may also be used: 3 | |
Cell Biology | |
Principles of Biochemistry | |
Organic Chemistry II | |
Organic Chemistry III | |
Introduction to Solid Modeling: Solidworks (0.5 unit) | |
Advanced Solid Modeling (0.5 unit) | |
Fundamentals of Computer Programming II | |
Three, 0.34 unit basic science and biology labs may also be combined and counted as a technical elective. Six total labs can be used. | |
BMD_ENG 250-0, BMD_ENG 271-0, or MAT_SCI 201-0 may also be used as a technical elective course as long as it is not used as a basic engineering course. |
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See general requirements for details.
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PHYSICS 125-2 General Physics for ISP or PHYSICS 140-3 Fundamentals of Physics may be substituted for PHYSICS 135-2 General Physics. PHYSICS 125-3 General Physics for ISP or PHYSICS 140-3 Fundamentals of Physics may be substituted for PHYSICS 135-3 General Physics. Associated labs are PHYSICS 126-2 Physics Laboratory for ISP or PHYSICS 136-2 General Physics Laboratory and PHYSICS 126-3 Physics Laboratory for ISP or PHYSICS 136-3 General Physics Laboratory.
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These courses don’t need to carry 100% engineering topics. Any 395 course must be approved; not all are acceptable. BME 399 Independent Study is only graded P/N and may not be used as a technical elective. BME 499 is graded and may be used as a technical elective.
Biomedical Engineering Electives
Category A Courses
Course | Title |
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BMD_ENG 311-0 | Computational Genomics |
BMD_ENG 312-0 | Biomedical Applications in Machine Learning |
BMD_ENG 317-0 | Biochemical Sensors |
BMD_ENG 325-0 | Introduction to Medical Imaging |
BMD_ENG 327-0 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
BMD_ENG 333-0 | Modern Optical Microscopy & Imaging |
BMD_ENG 340-0 | Pharmaceutical Engineering: From Discovery to Therapeutics |
BMD_ENG 343-0 | Biomaterials and Medical Devices |
BMD_ENG 344-0 | Biological Performance of Materials |
BMD_ENG 346-0 | Tissue Engineering |
BMD_ENG 347-0 | Foundations of Regenerative Engineering |
BMD_ENG 353-0 | Bioelectronics |
BMD_ENG 366-0 | Biomechanics of Movement |
BMD_ENG 371-0 | Mechanics of Biological Tissue |
BMD_ENG 377-0 | Intermediate Fluid Mechanics |
Category B Courses
Course | Title |
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BIOL_SCI 202-0 | Cell Biology * |
BIOL_SCI 301-0 | Principles of Biochemistry * |
BMD_ENG 311-0 | Computational Genomics |
BMD_ENG 312-0 | Biomedical Applications in Machine Learning |
BMD_ENG 313-0 | Wearable Devices: From Sensing to Biomedical Inference |
BMD_ENG 317-0 | Biochemical Sensors |
BMD_ENG 323-0 | Visual Engineering Science |
BMD_ENG 325-0 | Introduction to Medical Imaging |
BMD_ENG 327-0 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
BMD_ENG 333-0 | Modern Optical Microscopy & Imaging |
BMD_ENG 340-0 | Pharmaceutical Engineering: From Discovery to Therapeutics |
BMD_ENG 343-0 | Biomaterials and Medical Devices |
BMD_ENG 344-0 | Biological Performance of Materials |
BMD_ENG 346-0 | Tissue Engineering |
BMD_ENG 347-0 | Foundations of Regenerative Engineering |
BMD_ENG 348-0 | Applications of Regenerative Engineering |
BMD_ENG 353-0 | Bioelectronics |
BMD_ENG 365-0 | Control of Human Limbs and Their Artificial Replacements |
BMD_ENG 366-0 | Biomechanics of Movement |
BMD_ENG 371-0 | Mechanics of Biological Tissue |
BMD_ENG 377-0 | Intermediate Fluid Mechanics |
BMD_ENG 380-0 | Medical Devices, Disease & Global Health * |
BMD_ENG 388-SA | Health Systems Engineering |
CIV_ENV 327-0 | Finite Element Methods in Mechanics |
CHEM_ENG 361-0 | Introduction to Polymers |
CHEM_ENG 376-0 | Principles of Synthetic Biology |
CHEM_ENG 379-0 | Computational Biology: Analysis and Design of Living Systems |
COMP_SCI 211-0 | Fundamentals of Computer Programming II |
COMP_SCI 214-0 | Data Structures & Algorithms |
COMP_SCI 217-0 | Data Management & Information Processing |
COMP_SCI 339-0 | Introduction to Database Systems |
COMP_SCI 349-0 | Machine Learning |
DSGN 360-0 | Design Competition |
ELEC_ENG 302-0 | Probabilistic Systems |
ELEC_ENG 332-0 | Introduction to Computer Vision |
ELEC_ENG 335-0 | Deep Learning Foundations from Scratch |
ELEC_ENG 360-0 | Introduction to Feedback Systems |
ELEC_ENG 379-0 | Lasers and Coherent Optics |
ELEC_ENG 382-0 | Photonic Information Processing |
ES_APPM 370-1 | Introduction to Computational Neuroscience |
IEMS 304-0 | Statistical Learning for Data Analysis |
IEMS 385-0 | Introduction to Health Systems Management |
MAT_SCI 318-0 | Materials Selection |
MAT_SCI 360-0 | Introduction to Electron Microscopy |
MECH_ENG 301-0 | Introduction to Robotics Laboratory |
MECH_ENG 314-0 | Machine Dynamics |
MECH_ENG 315-0 | Theory of Machines: Design of Elements |
MECH_ENG 333-0 | Introduction to Mechatronics |
MECH_ENG 362-0 | Stress Analysis |
MECH_ENG 382-0 | Experiments in Micro- and Nano Science and Engineering |
MECH_ENG 390-0 | Intro to Dynamic Systems |
PHYSICS 357-0 | Optics Laboratory * |
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Only one course that is less than 1 engineering unit can be counted toward the BME electives.