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The computational bioengineering track teaches students to use computational approaches–such as molecular modeling, computational biomechanics, computational bioimaging, and healthcare informatics–to solve biological and medical problems.

Application areas include:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Decoding multi-omics information
  • Disease and injury modeling and simulation
  • Personalized medical information systems development
  • Pharmaceutical design

Required Courses (select 6 hours)

BMEN 401 – Principles and Analyses of Biological Control Systems
BMEN 471 – Numerical Analysis for Biomedical Engineering

Track Courses (select 6-9 hours)

BIOL 350 – Computational Genomics
BMEN 463 – Soft Tissue Mechanics and Finite Element Methods
BMEN 489 - Special Topics
BMEN 491 – Research*
MEEN 422 – Computer-Aided Engineering
MSEN 444 – Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering

Other Courses (select 0-3 hours)

ACCT 640 - Acct Concepts & Procedures (MSF students only)
BMEN 404 – FDA Good Laboratory and Clinical Practices
BMEN 469 – Entrepreneurial Issues in BMEN
BMEN 4XX – BMEN Elective (subject to approval)
CHEM 228 – Organic Chemistry II
ENGR 385 – Co-Op (one semester credit hour per term up to three credit hours)
ENGR 410 - Global ENGR Design (Int'l ENGR certification students only)
VTPP 401 – History of Medicine in Europe (Germany Abroad Program only)
VTPB 410 – Cell Mechanisms of Disease

Notes

*No more than 3 hours of BMEN 491 will count toward technical elective requirements.

Proposed deviations from the required courses, track courses and other courses from sections above must be approved in advance by a Track Coordinator and the Director of Undergraduate Programs.


Track Coordinators

Jason T. George

  • Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine
Jason T. George

John Horn

  • Instructional Assistant Professor
John Horn

Wonmuk Hwang

  • Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering and Physics & Astronomy
Wonmuk Hwang