Track B: Premedical Bioengineering

The Premedical Bioengineering curriculum provides preparation for post-graduate training leading to careers in health care professions. This programs contains most of the courses required for admission to medical school plus a broad exposure to bioengineering core subjects.

Lower-Division Courses: See course listing for Lower-Division Bioengineering Track A.

Upper-Division Courses completed, enrolled in, or yet to be taken by internship candidates.

Junior Year:

Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences
163 Linear Circuits
170 Experimental Techniques in Engineering

Bioengineering
110 Continuum Mechanics
112A Biomechanics
112B Biomechanics

Biology/Biochemistry
100 Structural Biochemistry

Biology/Genetics, Cellular, and Developmental Biology of Plants and Animals
100 Genetics

Chemistry
143A Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Senior Year:

Bioengineering
172 Bioengineering Laboratory
186A Principles of Biomaterials Design
186B Principles of Bioinstrumentation Design

Biology/Animal Physiology and Neuroscience
100 Mammalian Physiology I
102 Mammalian Physiology II
140 Cellular Neurobiology

In addition to the courses listed above, upper-division students are required to take three technical electives and a minimum of seven humanities courses.

Track C: Biotechnology

Lower-Division Courses successfully completed by internship candidates.

Freshman Year:

Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences
10 FORTRAN for Engineers

Bioengineering
1 Introduction to Bioengineering

Biology
1 The Cell

Chemistry
6A General Chemistry
6B General Chemistry
6BL Introductory Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
6C General Chemistry

Mathematics
20A Calculus
20B Calculus
21C Calculus and Analytic Geometry

Physics
2A Physics - Mechanics
2B Physics - Electricity

Sophomore Year:

Bioengineering
100 Introduction to Bioengineering Design

Biology
BILD1 The Cell

Chemistry
131 Physical Chemistry
140A Organic Chemistry
140B Organic Chemistry
143A Organic Chemistry Lab

Mathematics
21D Introduction to Differential Equations
20E Vector Calculus
20F Linear Algebra

Physics
2C Physics Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics, and Optics
2CL Physics Laboratory - Electricity and Magnetism, Waves, and Optics

In addition to the courses listed above, lower-division students are required to take a minimum of five humanities courses.

Upper-Division Courses completed, enrolled in, or yet to be taken by internship candidates.

Junior Year:

Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences
103A Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
103B Mass Transfer
153 Process Modeling and Computation in Chemical Engineering v 163 Linear Circuits

Bioengineering
122A Biosystems and Control

Biology
BIBC100 Structural Biochemistry
BIBC102 Metabolic Biochemistry
BIBC103 Biochemical Techniques
BICD100 Genetics
BIMM100 Molecular Biology

Senior Year:

Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences
170 Experimental Techniques in Engineering

Bioengineering
160A Metabolic Engineering
160B Biochemical Engineering
160C Biochemical Engineering
162 Biotechnology Laboratory
166A Cell and Tissue Engineering
186A Principles of Biomaterials Design
191 Senior Seminar 1: Professional Issues in Bioengineering

In addition to the courses listed above, upper-division students are required to take a minimum of one technical elective and a minimum of five humanities courses.