This minor requires the successful completion of at least 15 credit hours of
coursework selected from lists of approved biomedical
engineering and bioscience courses. The goal of
the minor program is to educate students in how
to apply engineering fundamentals to solve problems
in biology and medicine. The program should be of
particular interest to those students who plan to
pursue advanced degrees in biomedical engineering
and/or medicine.
All of the courses must be taken on a letter grade
basis and completed with an overall grade point
average of at least 2.0. At least 9 of the 15 hours
must be advanced upper level coursework (numbered
3000 or above). No more than 6 semester hours of
Special Topics courses may be included in a minor
program. Courses required by name and number and/or
used to satisfy Core Areas A through E in a student's
major degree program may not be used in satisfying
the course requirements for the minor. However,
courses used in a minor may also be used to fulfill
other elective requirements (e.g. free and technical
electives, etc.) in the student's major degree program.
When a student petitions for a degree, they should complete
a petition for the minor and have it approved by the Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Wallace H. Coulter
Department of Biomedical Engineering. The petition for the
minor will accompany the petition for the major degree when
reviewed and approved by the major school. The two forms
are then submitted to the Registrar. The minor will be conferred
at the same time the degree is conferred and the degree
and minor will be recorded on the student's transcript.
The minor will not appear on the diploma and cannot be conferred
retroactively upon students who have graduated.
Biosciences Coursework:
Required
- APPH/BIOL 3751 Human Anatomy and Physiology (3-0-3) or BMED 3100 Systems Physiology (3-0-3)
Electives (minimum of 3 hours)
- BIOL 1510 Biological Principles (3-3-4)
- APPH 4100 Exercise Physiology (3-0-3)
- APPH 4200 Kinesiology of Human Movement (3-0-3)
- APPH 4600 Muscle Structure and Plasticity (3-0-3)
- BIOL/BMED 4752 Introductory Neuroscience (3-0-3)
- BIOL 2344 Genetics (3-0-3)
- BIOL 3340 Cell Biology (3-3-4)
- BIOL 4478 Biophysics (3-0-3)
- BIOL 4570 Immunology and Immunochemistry (3-0-3)
- CHEM 3511 Survey of Biochemistry (3-0-3)
- CHEM 4511 Biochemistry I (3-0-3)
- CHEM 4512 Biochemistry II (3-0-3)
Biomedical Engineering Coursework:
Required
- BMED/CHE/ECE/ME/MSE 1750 Intro to Bioengineering (3-0-3) or BMED 1300 Problems in Biomedical Engineering I (1-6-3)
Electives (minimum of 6 hours)
- BMED 4400 Neuroengineering Fundamentals (2-6-4)
- BMED 4477 Biological Networks and Genomics (3-0-3)
- BMED 4500 Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory (1-6-3)
- BMED/NRE/MP 4750 Diagnostic Imaging Physics (3-0-3)
- BMED/MSE 4751 Introduction to Biomaterials (3-0-3)
- AE/BMED/CHE/ME 4757 Biofluid Mechanics (3-0-3)
- AE/BMED/CHE/ME 4758 Biosolid Mechanics (3-0-3)
- BMED/CHBE/CHEM 4765 Drug Design, Development and Delivery (3-0-3)
- BMED/ECE 4783 Introduction to Medical Image Processing (3-0-3)
- BMED/ECE 4784 Engineering Electrophysiology(3-0-3)
- ECE/ME 4781 Biomedical Instrumentation (3-0-3)
- ECE/ME 4782 Biosystems Analysis (3-0-3)
