BME MS Curriculum - Biomedical Engineering

MS Curriculum

The department offers two types of Master of Science degrees. The first is the Plan A or thesis masters and the second is the Plan B or coursework masters. The primary goal of the Plan A masters is for a student to successfully execute and communicate an in-depth research project. In Plan A, courses are taken both in support of the research project and to broaden the student's educational experience. The primary goal of the Plan B masters is for a student to develop and demonstrate their advanced understanding of biomedical engineering principles. Courses are selected to provide depth in an area of the student's interest and to develop an understanding of the breadth of applications in biomedical engineering. The Plan B Master’s degree terminates with an exit exam (see the graduate handbook), while the Plan A Master’s degree requires a thesis defense.

Plan A

BME 502 – Analytic Foundations In BME (4.0 credits)
14 credits from:
- BME Intensives (4 credits minimum)
  - BME 404 – Comp Methods Appl to Biosys (4.0 credits)
  - BME 418 – Intro to Neuroengineering (4.0 credits)
  - BME 428 – Physiological Control Systms (4.0 credits)
  - BME 432 – Controlled Release Systems (2.0 credits)
  - BME 442 – Microbiomechanics (2.0 credits)
  - BME 445 – Biomaterials (4.0 credits)
  - BME 451 – Biomedical Ultrasound (4.0 credits)
  - BME 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
  - BME 453 – Advanced Ultrasound Imaging (4.0 credits)
  - BME 454 – Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4.0 credits)
  - BME 455 – Translational Biomedical Opt (4.0 credits)
  - BME 460 – Quantitative Physiology (4.0 credits)
  - BME 462 – Cell & Tissue Engineering (4.0 credits)
  - BME 465 – Cell Adhesion (4.0 credits)
  - BME 467 – Models&Simultns of BME Systm (4.0 credits)
  - BME 470 – Biomedical Microscopy (4.0 credits)
  - BME 474 – Biomed Sensors,Circuits&Intr (4.0 credits)
  - BME 483 – Biosolid Mechanics (4.0 credits)
  - BME 485 – Cell & Membrane Mechanics (2.0 credits)
  - BME 486 – Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
  - BME 513 – Mr Imaging: Spins to Brains (3.0 credits)
  - BME 515 – Neural Control of Movement (2.0 credits)
  - OPT 448 – Vision and The Eye (4.0 credits)
  - BCS 521 – Auditory Perception (3.0 credits)
- Approved Engineering (4 credits minimum)
  - CHE
    CHE 411 – Prob for Chemical Engineers (variable credits)
    CHE 413 – Engineering of Soft Matter (4.0 credits)
    CHE 421 – Thin Film Processing (4.0 credits)
    CHE 441 – Adv Transport Phenomenon (4.0 credits)
    CHE 447 – Opt&Liquid Crystals for Che (4.0 credits)
    CHE 454 – Interfacial Engineering (4.0 credits)
    CHE 460 – Solar Cells (4.0 credits)
    CHE 480 – Chem of Advanced Materials (4.0 credits)
    CHE 482 – Processing Microelectronic Devices (2.0 credits)
    CHE 486 – Polymer Science&Engineering (4.0 credits)
  - ME
    ME 401 – Mathematical Methods (4.0 credits)
    ME 402 – Partial Differential Equations (4.0 credits)
    ME 406 – Dynamical Systems (variable credits)
    ME 411 – Mechanical Properties of Polymers (4.0 credits)
    ME 424 – Intro Robust Dsgn&Qual Eng (4.0 credits)
    ME 437 – Incompressible Flow (variable credits)
    ME 440 – Mechanics of Structures (4.0 credits)
    ME 441 – Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
    ME 443 – Applied Vibration Analysis (4.0 credits)
    ME 444 – Continuum Mechanics (4.0 credits)
    ME 449 – Elasticity (4.0 credits)
    ME 458 – Nonlinear Finite Elements (variable credits)
    ME 459 – Applied Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
    ME 461 – Fracture & Fatigue (4.0 credits)
    ME 463 – Microstructures (4.0 credits)
    ME 481 – Mechanical Properties (4.0 credits)
  - OPT
    OPT 421 – Optical Properties of Materials (4.0 credits)
    OPT 425 – Radiation & Detectors (4.0 credits)
    OPT 428 – Optical Communication Systems (4.0 credits)
    OPT 441 – Geometrical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 442 – Instrumental Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 443 – Opt Fabrication & Test Tech (4.0 credits)
    OPT 444 – Lens Design (4.0 credits)
    OPT 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
    OPT 461 – Physical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 462 – Physical Optics II (4.0 credits)
    OPT 465 – Principles of Lasers (4.0 credits)
    OPT 476 – Biomedical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 492 – Sp top:Illumination Engineer (4.0 credits)
    OPT 551 – Intro to Quantum Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 552 – Quant. Opt. Of Electromag. Field (4.0 credits)
    OPT 553 – Quantum Optics Atom Fld Int (4.0 credits)
    OPT 563 – Statistical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 564 – Thry of Electronc Imag'G Sys (4.0 credits)
    OPT 568 – Waveguide Optoelectr Devices (4.0 credits)
    OPT 592 – Solid State Quantum Opt (4.0 credits)
  - ECE
    ECE 401 – Advncd Computer Architecture (4.0 credits)
    ECE 404 – High Perf Micropr-Based Syst (4.0 credits)
    ECE 405 – Adv Digital Design Using Fpga (4.0 credits)
    ECE 423 – Semiconductor Devices (4.0 credits)
    ECE 425 – Superconductivity & Josephson Effect (4.0 credits)
    ECE 431 – Microwaves & Wireless (4.0 credits)
    ECE 432 – Acoustical Waves (4.0 credits)
    ECE 434 – Microelectromechanical Systems (4.0 credits)
    ECE 435 – Introduction to Optoelectronics (4.0 credits)
    ECE 437 – Wireless Communications (4.0 credits)
    ECE 440 – Intro to Random Processes (4.0 credits)
    ECE 444 – Digital Communications (4.0 credits)
    ECE 446 – Digital Signal Processing (4.0 credits)
    ECE 447 – Digital Image Proccess (4.0 credits)
    ECE 450 – Information Theory (4.0 credits)
    ECE 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
    ECE 461 – Intro to Vlsi (4.0 credits)
    ECE 462 – Advanced Cmos Vlsi Design (4.0 credits)
    ECE 465 – Performance Issues Vlsi/Ic Design & Analysis (4.0 credits)
    ECE 466 – Rf and Microwave Integrated (4.0 credits)
    ECE 441 – Detection & Estimation Theory (4.0 credits)
- Approved Biology (4 credits minimum)
  - Basic courses
    BME 511 – Cell & Molecular Foundations (4.0 credits)
    IND 408 – Advanced Biochemistry (5.0 credits)
    IND 409 – Cell Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 410 – Molecular Bio & Genetics (4.0 credits)
    MBI 414 – Microbial Pathogenesis (3.0 credits)
    MBI 514 – Microbial Pathogenesis Semnr (1.0 credit)
    PHP 403 – Cell & Molecular Physiology (3.0 credits)
    PHP 404 – Principles of Pharmacology (4.0 credits)
    PTH 507 – Cancer Biology (3.0 credits)
    PTH 509 – Pathways of Human Disease (4.0 credits)
    PTH 510 – Pathways to Human Disease (4.0 credits)
  - Advanced courses
    ANA 531 – Integrative Neuroscience (6.0 credits)
    BIO 419 – Nuc Structure and Function (4.0 credits)
    BIO 422 – Biology of Aging (4.0 credits)
    BIO 426 – Developmental Biology (4.0 credits)
    BIO 428 – Lab in Cell and Dev Biology (4.0 credits)
    CVS 401 – Cardiovascular Bio & Disease (3.0 credits)
    GEN 506 – Principles In Stem Cell Biology (4.0 credits)
    GEN 507 – Advanced Genetics & Genomics (4.0 credits)
    GEN 508 – Genomics and Systems Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 407 – Cytoplasmic Structures and Functions (4.0 credits)
    IND 411 – Methods in Structural Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 443 – Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (4.0 credits)
    IND 447 – Signal Transduction (4.0 credits)
    IND 520 – Mitochondrial Medicine (2.0 credits)
    IND 525 – Cell and Membrane Biophysics (4.0 credits)
    MBI 473 – Immunology (3.0 credits)
    NSC 512 – Cellular Neuroscience (5.0 credits)
    PHP 440 – topics In Vascular Biology (2.0 credits)
    PTH 593 – Nuclear Hormone Receptors (2.0 credits)
    TOX 521 – toxicology I (4.0 credits)
IND 501 – Ethics & Prof Integrity (1.0 credit)
6-11 research credits

Plan B

BME 502 – Analytic Foundations In BME (4.0 credits)
14 credits from:
- BME Intensives (4 credits minimum)
  - BME 404 – Comp Methods Appl to Biosys (4.0 credits)
  - BME 418 – Intro to Neuroengineering (4.0 credits)
  - BME 428 – Physiological Control Systms (4.0 credits)
  - BME 432 – Controlled Release Systems (2.0 credits)
  - BME 442 – Microbiomechanics (2.0 credits)
  - BME 445 – Biomaterials (4.0 credits)
  - BME 451 – Biomedical Ultrasound (4.0 credits)
  - BME 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
  - BME 453 – Advanced Ultrasound Imaging (4.0 credits)
  - BME 454 – Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4.0 credits)
  - BME 455 – Translational Biomedical Opt (4.0 credits)
  - BME 460 – Quantitative Physiology (4.0 credits)
  - BME 462 – Cell & Tissue Engineering (4.0 credits)
  - BME 465 – Cell Adhesion (4.0 credits)
  - BME 467 – Models&Simultns of BME Systm (4.0 credits)
  - BME 470 – Biomedical Microscopy (4.0 credits)
  - BME 474 – Biomed Sensors,Circuits&Intr (4.0 credits)
  - BME 483 – Biosolid Mechanics (4.0 credits)
  - BME 485 – Cell & Membrane Mechanics (2.0 credits)
  - BME 486 – Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
  - BME 513 – Mr Imaging: Spins to Brains (3.0 credits)
  - BME 515 – Neural Control of Movement (2.0 credits)
  - OPT 448 – Vision and The Eye (4.0 credits)
  - BCS 521 – Auditory Perception (3.0 credits)
- Approved Engineering (4 credits minimum)
  - CHE
    CHE 411 – Prob for Chemical Engineers (variable credits)
    CHE 413 – Engineering of Soft Matter (4.0 credits)
    CHE 421 – Thin Film Processing (4.0 credits)
    CHE 441 – Adv Transport Phenomenon (4.0 credits)
    CHE 447 – Opt&Liquid Crystals for Che (4.0 credits)
    CHE 454 – Interfacial Engineering (4.0 credits)
    CHE 460 – Solar Cells (4.0 credits)
    CHE 480 – Chem of Advanced Materials (4.0 credits)
    CHE 482 – Processing Microelectronic Devices (2.0 credits)
    CHE 486 – Polymer Science&Engineering (4.0 credits)
  - ME
    ME 401 – Mathematical Methods (4.0 credits)
    ME 402 – Partial Differential Equations (4.0 credits)
    ME 406 – Dynamical Systems (variable credits)
    ME 411 – Mechanical Properties of Polymers (4.0 credits)
    ME 424 – Intro Robust Dsgn&Qual Eng (4.0 credits)
    ME 437 – Incompressible Flow (variable credits)
    ME 440 – Mechanics of Structures (4.0 credits)
    ME 441 – Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
    ME 443 – Applied Vibration Analysis (4.0 credits)
    ME 444 – Continuum Mechanics (4.0 credits)
    ME 449 – Elasticity (4.0 credits)
    ME 458 – Nonlinear Finite Elements (variable credits)
    ME 459 – Applied Finite Elements (4.0 credits)
    ME 461 – Fracture & Fatigue (4.0 credits)
    ME 463 – Microstructures (4.0 credits)
    ME 481 – Mechanical Properties (4.0 credits)
  - OPT
    OPT 421 – Optical Properties of Materials (4.0 credits)
    OPT 425 – Radiation & Detectors (4.0 credits)
    OPT 428 – Optical Communication Systems (4.0 credits)
    OPT 441 – Geometrical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 442 – Instrumental Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 443 – Opt Fabrication & Test Tech (4.0 credits)
    OPT 444 – Lens Design (4.0 credits)
    OPT 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
    OPT 461 – Physical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 462 – Physical Optics II (4.0 credits)
    OPT 465 – Principles of Lasers (4.0 credits)
    OPT 476 – Biomedical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 492 – Sp top:Illumination Engineer (4.0 credits)
    OPT 551 – Intro to Quantum Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 552 – Quant. Opt. Of Electromag. Field (4.0 credits)
    OPT 553 – Quantum Optics Atom Fld Int (4.0 credits)
    OPT 563 – Statistical Optics (4.0 credits)
    OPT 564 – Thry of Electronc Imag'G Sys (4.0 credits)
    OPT 568 – Waveguide Optoelectr Devices (4.0 credits)
    OPT 592 – Solid State Quantum Opt (4.0 credits)
  - ECE
    ECE 401 – Advncd Computer Architecture (4.0 credits)
    ECE 404 – High Perf Micropr-Based Syst (4.0 credits)
    ECE 405 – Adv Digital Design Using Fpga (4.0 credits)
    ECE 423 – Semiconductor Devices (4.0 credits)
    ECE 425 – Superconductivity & Josephson Effect (4.0 credits)
    ECE 431 – Microwaves & Wireless (4.0 credits)
    ECE 432 – Acoustical Waves (4.0 credits)
    ECE 434 – Microelectromechanical Systems (4.0 credits)
    ECE 435 – Introduction to Optoelectronics (4.0 credits)
    ECE 437 – Wireless Communications (4.0 credits)
    ECE 440 – Intro to Random Processes (4.0 credits)
    ECE 444 – Digital Communications (4.0 credits)
    ECE 446 – Digital Signal Processing (4.0 credits)
    ECE 447 – Digital Image Proccess (4.0 credits)
    ECE 450 – Information Theory (4.0 credits)
    ECE 452 – Med Imaging-Theory&Implemt (4.0 credits)
    ECE 461 – Intro to Vlsi (4.0 credits)
    ECE 462 – Advanced Cmos Vlsi Design (4.0 credits)
    ECE 465 – Performance Issues Vlsi/Ic Design & Analysis (4.0 credits)
    ECE 466 – Rf and Microwave Integrated (4.0 credits)
    ECE 441 – Detection & Estimation Theory (4.0 credits)
- Approved Biology (4 credits minimum)
  - Basic courses
    BME 511 – Cell & Molecular Foundations (4.0 credits)
    IND 408 – Advanced Biochemistry (5.0 credits)
    IND 409 – Cell Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 410 – Molecular Bio & Genetics (4.0 credits)
    MBI 414 – Microbial Pathogenesis (3.0 credits)
    MBI 514 – Microbial Pathogenesis Semnr (1.0 credit)
    PHP 403 – Cell & Molecular Physiology (3.0 credits)
    PHP 404 – Principles of Pharmacology (4.0 credits)
    PTH 507 – Cancer Biology (3.0 credits)
    PTH 509 – Pathways of Human Disease (4.0 credits)
    PTH 510 – Pathways to Human Disease (4.0 credits)
  - Advanced courses
    ANA 531 – Integrative Neuroscience (6.0 credits)
    BIO 419 – Nuc Structure and Function (4.0 credits)
    BIO 422 – Biology of Aging (4.0 credits)
    BIO 426 – Developmental Biology (4.0 credits)
    BIO 428 – Lab in Cell and Dev Biology (4.0 credits)
    CVS 401 – Cardiovascular Bio & Disease (3.0 credits)
    GEN 506 – Principles In Stem Cell Biology (4.0 credits)
    GEN 507 – Advanced Genetics & Genomics (4.0 credits)
    GEN 508 – Genomics and Systems Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 407 – Cytoplasmic Structures and Functions (4.0 credits)
    IND 411 – Methods in Structural Biology (4.0 credits)
    IND 443 – Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (4.0 credits)
    IND 447 – Signal Transduction (4.0 credits)
    IND 520 – Mitochondrial Medicine (2.0 credits)
    IND 525 – Cell and Membrane Biophysics (4.0 credits)
    MBI 473 – Immunology (3.0 credits)
    NSC 512 – Cellular Neuroscience (5.0 credits)
    PHP 440 – topics In Vascular Biology (2.0 credits)
    PTH 593 – Nuclear Hormone Receptors (2.0 credits)
    TOX 521 – toxicology I (4.0 credits)
6-12 additional credits (6 research credits maximium)

30 credits total with more than 12 credits > 400 level