Courses

Current Course Offerings

• BME 520 - Biomed Devices & Diagnostics

  This is an advanced course for biomedical engineering undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The course covers studies of significant medical devices with a discussion of appropriate physiology, system design, biocompatibility issues, and clinical need. Details on technological function and administration of diagnosis and/or therapy are covered along with standard requirements from organizations. Prerequisites: BME 324 and BME 351, graduate standing in BME, or instructor approval. Fall semester, Lecture 3 credit hours per week. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 526 - Bioimaging

  This is an introduction to biomedical imaging systems for biomedical engineering graduate students. The course covers biomedical imaging with an emphasis on fundamental principles and applications of each modern imaging modality including X-ray radiography, computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine (SPECT and PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. Spring semester. 3 credit hours. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 528 - Biophotonics&Image Processing

  This course covers advanced topics in biophotonics, including physical optics, tissue optics, and digital image acquisition and formats. Additional topics include modern optical imaging technologies, Raman spectroscopy, super-resolution microscopy, optogenetics, photoacoustic tomography, photodynamic therapy, and live-cell imaging microscopy. The last part of the course will cover fundamentals and methods for digital image processing, featuring applications in biological and medical diagnosis. The course will also include a discussion of unintentionally generated biases in digital imaging processing and medical data analysis and discuss how to identify and overcome them. Students are required to have basic skills in MATLAB programming. Credits: 3 Prerequisites: BME 324, BME 351 Offering: Spring Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 533 - Human Physiology

  An introduction to the major organ systems of the body with an emphasis on regulatory processes and interactions with other systems. The course provides students with a basic understanding of the prevalent theories of physiology and pathophysiology and the application of these theories to health concerns relevant to biomedical engineering. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Fall semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 542 - Nanotechnology & Drug Delivery

  The course introduces basics concepts of nanobiotechnologies, including mathematical description of controlled release, and targeted and passive drug delivery. Different types of drug delivery nanotechnologies, including lipid-, polymer-, hydrogel-, and virus-based delivery systems and their application in disease treatments are also covered in this course. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Fall semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 543 - Quantitative Instr Bioanalysis

  This is an advanced, elective course for biomedical engineering undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Quantitative instrumental bioanalysis is an overview course including various instrumental bioanalysis principles and methods commonly used in the pharmaceutical industries and biomedical research. The current biotechnologies based on these instrumental analyses are discussed along with the strategy of the quality control in the healthcare industry. The course focuses on the principles and practical application of the analytical instruments used for quantitative analysis in medicine, healthcare, and biomedical research. Prerequisite: BME 324 and 351, graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. Spring Semester. 3 credit hours. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 553 - Biomed Data Man & Reg Science

  This is a lecture-based course for biomedical engineering senior undergraduate students and graduate students interested in big data management as it relates to healthcare systems. Some of the topics in this course include biomedical data acquisition, data mining methodologies, information processing, healthcare systems, and FDA regulations. Students will use various computational tools to manipulate large data sets as part of homework assignments and projects. Spring semester. 3 credit hours. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 563 - Bioprocess Engineering

  This course introduces engineering concepts for biological conversion of raw materials to pharmaceuticals, fuels, and chemicals. Includes enzyme kinetics and technology; bioreactor kinetics; design, analysis, control, and sterilization of bioreactors and fermenters; genetic engineering of organisms to generate commercially-relevant products; and downstream product processing. Graduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Spring semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 570 - Advanced Bioinformatics

  The course covers advanced topics in modern bioinformatics. Topics include, advanced database searching and sequence alignment, molecular phylogeny and evolution, analysis of next-generation sequence data, microarray data analysis, protein analysis and proteomics, and personalized medicine and drug design. The course includes computer labs as part of the lectures that cover computational tools used to analyze genomic and proteomic data. Prerequisites: BME 340, graduate standing in BME, or instructor approval. Fall Semester. 3 credit hours. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 573 - Adv Biomat & Biocompatibility

  This is an advanced course for biomedical engineering graduate students. The course covers topics including material mechanical and surface properties, material degradation mechanisms, and microparticles and nanoparticles. These topics are discussed with a focus on cardiovascular, orthopedic, ophthalmological, and dental. Additionally, the biological response to materials is covered in-depth including inflammation, thrombosis, and immunity. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Spring semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 572 - Expermntal Design & Stat Anyls

  This is an advanced course for biomedical engineering graduate students. It covers topics such as experimental design and hypothesis testing, ANOVA, MANOVA, linear and multiple regression, generalized linear modeling, principal component analysis, clustering, sampling methods, and bioinformatics. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Fall semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 573 - Adv Biomat & Biocompatibility

  This is an advanced course for biomedical engineering graduate students. The course covers topics including material mechanical and surface properties, material degradation mechanisms, and microparticles and nanoparticles. These topics are discussed with a focus on cardiovascular, orthopedic, ophthalmological, and dental. Additionally, the biological response to materials is covered in-depth including inflammation, thrombosis, and immunity. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Spring semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 583 - Tissue Engineering

  This course introduces Tissue Engineering approaches at genetic and molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ levels. Topics include cell and tissue in vitro expansion, tissue organization, signaling molecules, stem cell and stem cell differentiation, organ regeneration, biomaterial and matrix for tissue engineering, bioreactor design for cell and tissue culture, clinical implementation of tissue engineered products, and tissue-engineered devices. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Fall semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 584 - Al in Biomed Engineering

  This is a lecture-based course for biomedical engineering students interested in learning and applying artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to real-world biomedical problems. The course focuses on principles of a number of AI and machine learning tools such as clustering, regression, decision trees, random forests and neural networks and their applications in various areas of biomedical engineering, such as biomedical data analysis, disease diagnosis, clinical risk stratification, disease progression modeling, patient outcome prediction, and phenotype and biomarker discovery. Students will use various computational tools to manipulate large data sets as part of homework assignments and projects. Prerequisites: MATH 227 (Cal II), BME 203 and BME 340 or instructor approval. Fall semester. 3 credit hours. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 590 - Grad Seminar in Biomedical Eng

  This course serves as the seminar course within the biomedical engineering graduate curriculum, in which seminars on cutting-edge research by biomedical engineering faculty, students, and invited guest speakers will be held. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 1 Credit. Fall Semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 592 - Teaching Practicum

  Development of effective educational techniques under the guidance of a faculty member. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 594 - Industrial Internship

  Industrial internship experience. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Undergraduate and Graduate. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 597 - Independent Study

  Reading and research on special topics for MS students under the direction of a biomedical engineering program faculty member. Students must obtain the consent of a professor, who then determines the description of the study program, number of credits, frequency of meetings, and location. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 598 - Project

  Reading and research on special topics for MS project students under the direction of a biomedical engineering program faculty member. Students must obtain the consent of a professor, who then determines the description of the study program, number of credits, frequency of meetings, and location. Three credits of BME 598 are required for graduation with a termination project-based MS degree. Variable credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate

• BME 599 - Thesis

  Research activity for MS students under the direction of a biomedical engineering program faculty member. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 628 - Optical Instru & Bio App

  This course covers essential areas in the field of biomedical optics. First, the key theories of electromagnetic (EM) fields, wave equations, geometrical optics, quantum optics, biophotonics and tissue optics will be refreshed; second, principles and instrumentation of modern lasers, spectroscopy and microscopy for bioimaging will be introduced. Third, several lectures with assigned projects will be given to teach students how to analyze and interpret spectroscopic and microscopic data towards medical diagnosis and therapeutic purposes. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in BME or instructor approval. 3 credit hours. Spring semester. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 682 - Emerging Methods & App in BME

  This is a graduate course designed for students with varied levels of experience in biomedical engineering. The goal is to allow students to become familiar with emerging biomedical sciences and technologies. The course covers the following topics: advanced DNA/RNA/protein engineering technologies, therapeutic product design and development, genome editing, biomaterial development, advanced bioimaging, and case studies in biomedical science and engineering. It offers training in communication skills critical to career development. In addition, the course offers hands-on training to students for them to learn how to apply the emerging methods to solve real world biomedical engineering problems. 3 credit hour course including two hours of lecture and one hour of lab training. There is a $173 fee associated with this course. Spring semester. Graduate Standing. Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate

• BME 690 - Adv Grad Sem & Writing in BME

  This course serves as the advanced seminar and graduate writing course within the biomedical engineering graduate curriculum. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of scientific writing and seminars on cutting-edge research by biomedical engineering faculty, students, and invited guest speakers will be held. Prerequisites: BME 590. 2 Credits. Spring Semester. Levels: Graduate

• BME 697 - Advanced Independent Study

  Reading and research on advanced special topics for PhD students under the direction of a biomedical engineering program faculty member. Students must obtain the consent of a professor, who then determines the description of the study program, number of credits, frequency of meetings, and location. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate

• BME 698 - Predissertation Research

  Supervised research leading to a comprehensive exam. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate

• BME 699 - Dissertation Research

  Supervised research leading to a doctoral dissertation proposal and defense. Variable Credit. Fall/Spring Semesters. Levels: Graduate

• BME 700 - Continuous Registration

  Required for maintenance of matriculated status in BME graduate program when no other courses are taken. Does not provide credit toward graduate degree requirements. Fall/Spring Semesters Levels: Graduate