Biomedical Engineering, B.S.

This program will prepare graduates for careers in the biomedical engineering field with a specialization in biomechanical skills. This interdisciplinary degree combines classical mechanical engineering and biological sciences. With a biomedical engineering degree, graduates are prepared to work at companies that design and manufacture medical devices including joints and tissues for the human body.

Program Objectives

1. Our graduates will be employed in Biomedical Engineering related fields or in other career fields in industry, business, academe, government, or non-profit organizations.
2. Our graduates will continue to enhance their professional skills by participating in professional organizations, completing additional college courses, or completing industry-sponsored short courses.

Student Learning Outcomes

Biomedical engineering graduates will successfully demonstrate the 11 ABET program outcomes:

a) Have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

b) Have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data

c) Have an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability

d) Have an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams

e) Have an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems

f) Have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility

g) Have an ability to communicate effectively

h) Have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context

i) Have a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning

j) Have a knowledge of contemporary issues

k) Have an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

 

The curriculum will prepare graduates with experience in:

1. applying principles of engineering, biology, human physiology, chemistry, calculus-based physics, differential equations and statistics;
2. solving biomedical engineering problems, including those associated with the interaction between living and nonliving systems;
3. analyzing, modeling, designing, and realizing medical (biomedical engineering) devices, systems, components, or processes;
4. making measurements on and interpreting data from living systems.