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Requirement | Credit Hours | Details |
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Biological or Clinical Sciences | 3 | Graduate level, taken for a letter grade. BS BME/MSE Integrated Program students only may choose to replace the biological/clinical science course with any other approved graduate-level technical course. Terminal coursework MSE students may choose to count an upper-division undergraduate course toward this requirement with the Graduate Advisor's approval.* |
Basic or Applied Mathematics | 3 | A statistics course is encouraged, but another mathematics topic may be approved in some circumstances. Graduate level, taken for a letter grade. |
Technical Area 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation | 3 | Choose one course from each of three of the four technical areas for a total of 9 credit hours. Graduate level, taken for a letter grade. |
Technical Area 2: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering | 3 | |
Technical Area 3: Computational Biomedical Engineering | 3 | |
Technical Area 4: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics | 3 | |
Technical Electives: graduate-level taken for a letter grade | 9 | One technical elective may be substituted with one approved graduate-level professional development course. All coursework must be approved by the Graduate Advisor in advance of registration. |
Technical Electives: graduate-level taken for a letter grade, graduate-level taken as CR/NC, or undergraduate upper-division taken for a letter grade | 6 | Effective fall 2018, up to six credit hours of BME X97 Research Problems may count toward the CR/NC allowance for BME PhD students pursuing an MSE along-the-way to PhD. *Terminal MSE students who choose to count an upper-division undergraduate course toward the biological/clinical sciences may only count up to 3 credit hours of additional upper-division undergraduate coursework taken for a letter grade or graduate level coursework taken as CR/NC. |
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