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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Biological Sciences

  
  • BIOL 50000 - Modular Upper-Division Laboratory Course


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This is a project-oriented course designed to give the student exposure to laboratory research through a series of five-week modules. The student must complete the introductory five-week module or have consent of instructor before taking the other modules. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BIOL 51100 - Introduction To X-Ray Crystallography


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 51100 ) Analysis of two- and three-dimensionally ordered structures by optical, electron, and X-ray diffraction methods. Geometry of diffraction. Detection of diffraction. Intensity of diffracted waves. Symmetry of crystals. The phase problem. The heavy atom method. Isomorphous replacement. Direct methods. Molecular replacement. Helical diffraction. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 51500 - Molecular Genetics


    Credit Hours: 2.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Fort Wayne) A molecular approach to the problems of structure, duplication, mutation, and phenotypic expression of generic material. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 51600 - Molecular Biology Of Cancer


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed course examining the molecular mechanisms controlling the growth of animal cells. Emphasis will be placed on current experimental approaches to defining the molecular basis of growth regulation in developing systems and the uncontrolled proliferation of cells in metabolic disorders, such as cancer. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 51700 - Molecular Biology: Proteins


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Principles of protein three-dimensional architecture. The molecular and structural basis of protein folding, function, and evolution. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 52900 - Bacterial Physiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed consideration of the central metabolic routes, their role in generation of energy and key intermediates, and the conversion of those intermediates to small molecule building blocks. Regulatory mechanisms will be stressed. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 53100 - Parasitology


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Arthropod, protozoan, and helminth parasites, their morphology, life histories, host-parasite relationships, and control. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 53300 - Medical Microbiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Host-parasite relationships. Immunology. Bacteria and viruses associated with infectious diseases. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 53700 - Immunobiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Readings and discussion in the structural, cellular, and genetic basis of the immune response. BIOL 42000  recommended as a pre-requisite. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 53800 - Molecular, Cellular, And Developmental Neurobiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Molecular mechanisms of neural cell biology and development are considered. Topics and readings are drawn from the current primary literature. BIOL 42000  recommended as a pre-requisite. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 54100 - Molecular Genetics Of Bacteria


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced bacterial genetics, with emphasis on the use of genetics as a powerful and creative intellectual activity that enables us to discover biological functions and to construct new organisms by the manipulation of DNA. Major topics include: mutations, genetic selections, recombination, regulatory mechanisms, and genomic evolution. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 54200 - Modular Upper-Division Laboratory Course


    Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. This is a project-oriented course designed to give the student exposure to laboratory research through a series of 5-week modules. The student must complete the introductory 5-week module or have the consent of the instructor before taking the other modules. Topics may include animal cell culture, cloning and blot analysis, DNA fingerprinting, analysis of nucleic acid sequences, animal physiology, bacterial genetics, advanced neurophysiology, chromatin structure, eukaryotic gene expression, genomics, yeast molecular biology, and molecular virology, etc. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BIOL 54601 - Topics In Infectious Diseases


    Credit Hours: 1.00. The course will discuss the history and current progress in infectious diseases with a focus on the cell biology of infectious diseases. Scientific publications will be selected based on their impact in the field and how it facilitates student learning. Students will acquire up-to-date knowledge of infectious diseases and be given instructional direction on how to select, read and present scientific findings. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 54900 - Microbial Ecology


    Credit Hours: 2.00. A study of microbial interactions with other organisms and the environment. Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems as well as interactions between nonpathogenic microbes and plants and animals will be discussed. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 55000 - Plant Molecular Biology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive study of plant molecular biology and plant molecular genetics. Topics will include the structure and expression of plant nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genomes, and plant viruses. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 55001 - Eukaryotic Molecular Biology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This is a general survey course intended for advanced undergrads and beginning grad students. The course will draw upon examples from the plant, animal, and fungal kingdoms, and will familiarize students with the basic principles of molecular biology analyses as they apply to eukaryotic organisms. By the end of the course students should have knowledge of these molecular processes and should be able to design and analyze experiments dealing with these topics. This is not a first course in molecular biology. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 55900 - Endocrinology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of hormone function. Consideration will be given to the role of hormones in growth, development, metabolism, homeostasis, and reproduction. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 56200 - Neural Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (SLHS 50700, PSY 51200 ) Overview of the structure and function of neural systems including those involved with motor, somatosensory, visual, auditory, learning, memory, and higher cortical processes. Molecular and cellular aspects of neural function are integrated with discussion of relevant neuroanatomy. Background in cell biology, psychobiology, physiology or anatomy is recommended. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 56600 - Developmental Biology


    Credit Hours: 3.00 (West Lafayette, Fort Wayne, IUPUI, North Central) 4.00 (Calumet) Principles of development with emphasis on concepts and experimental evidence for underlying mechanisms, including molecular, cellular, and supracellular approaches. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 56700 - Laboratory In Developmental Biology


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Descriptive and experimental study of the development of animals. Laboratories do not necessarily follow lecture material. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 57300 - The Molecular Biology Of Animal Cells


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Structure and organization of the genome, chromatin structure, the expression and regulation of genes. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 58000 - Evolution


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of evolution as a basic concept of the biological sciences; an examination of current methods of experimentation within the area, as well as evidences for the possible mechanisms of evolutionary change. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 58010 - Teaching Evolution: Online Course


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Evolution is one of the most important and most widely misunderstood concepts in science. Teaching Evolution is an online course to help you deepen your understanding of evolutionary concepts, develop instructional strategies, and address obstacles in the teaching of evolution. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BIOL 58500 - Ecology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Ecological processes and dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems; physical, physiological, behavioral, and population genetic factors regulating population and community structure; case studies; field studies, and simulation models of life history attributes, competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 58705 - Animal Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will be a broad-scaled analysis of animal communication. Topics will include the physics of sound- and light-signal production, propagation and reception of signals, the use of communication as a means of information transfer, and the evolution of signaling systems. Mathematical principles are covered (e.g. in the evolution of signals), so some background in mathematics (e.g. calculus or algebra and introductory physics) is helpful. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 59100 - Field Ecology


    Credit Hours: 4.00. A field course in ecology that stresses natural history and testing ecological theory under natural conditions. Group and individual projects include observational and experimental approaches. Emphasis is on the study of plant and animal species interactions in terrestrial (including montane and coastal) and aquatic habitats. Issues in community, population, behavioral, and conservation biology are addressed. Several all-day Saturday and two weekend field trips. Offered in alternate years. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 59200 - The Evolution Of Behavior


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An investigation of behaviors as adaptations: specializations of sensory and motor mechanisms involved in behavior; animal communication systems; behavioral ecology; patterns of social behavior as solutions to ecological problems, such as predator avoidance and resource exploitation. Emphasis will be on theoretical principles; examples will be broadly comparative, ranging from microorganisms to mammals. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 59500 - Special Assignments


    Arrange Hours and Credit. Special work, such as directed reading, independent study or research, supervised library, laboratory, or field work, or presentation of material not available in the formal courses of the department. The field in which work is offered will be indicated in the student’s record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BIOL 59700 - Sex And Evolution


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Covers various theoretical and empirical aspects of sexual reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include: Why did sexual reproduction evolve? What different modes of reproduction exist? How is the sex of an individual determined in different organisms? What sex ratio should exist in different species? What is sexual selection, and how does it influence male and female characteristics in various species? How does sexual selection influence human social behavior?. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 59900 - Quantitative Physiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to give upper-division biological sciences and biomedical engineers the ability to quantitatively understand the physical and chemical factors that are responsible for living systems. Normal relationships, both empirical and theoretical, will be covered primarily. This foundation in normal physiological systems is complemented by subsequent topics on system pathologies. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 60000 - Bioenergetics


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Energy transduction in biological membranes: physical chemical foundations; electron transfer, proton translocation; and active transport. Atomic structures of integral membrane protein complexes responsible for respiratory, photosynthetic generation of electrochemical potential; ATPase motor, and structure-based mechanisms. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56100 , BCHM 56200  and CHM 37300 . Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 60200 - Cellular Neurobiology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers principles of neurophysiology and cell, molecular and developmental neurobiology for graduate students from a wide range of disciplines. Course material will involve lectures and assigned textbook readings, homework problems and in-class discussions based on selected readings of the primary literature, and computer-based simulations of neurophysiology. Grades will be based on participation in class discussions, graded homework sets and exams (a midterm and a final exam). Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 61100 - Crystallography Of Macromolecules


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The special techniques required in the structure determination of biological macromolecules. Symmetry of macromolecules. Data collection and processing. The isomorphous replacement technique. The molecular replacement technique. Use of anomalous dispersion. Restraint and constraint refinement. Computational techniques. Prerequisite: BIOL 51100 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 62000 - Advanced Topics In Eukaryotic Cell Biology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of current areas of cell biological research, including the cytoskeleton, the regulation of the cell cycle, and the functions and dynamics of membrane-bound organelles. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 64700 - Membrane Protein Structural Biology


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course focuses on the structural basis of the functions and dysfunctions of diverse membrane proteins, analyzed by X-ray, electron microscopy, and spectroscopy. The functions include transport, biogenesis, and transmembrane signaling. Unique problems associated with the structure analysis of integral membrane proteins are discussed. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 65001 - Techniques In Molecular Biology


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Techniques in Molecular Biology will introduce graduate students to the theory and practice of many commonly used methods. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the theoretical basis for these techniques, their utility in various circumstances, and their limitations. Although taught as a lecture, students should be able to take this knowledge back to the laboratory to help them in their research efforts. The course will be as close as possible to a laboratory experience without being in an actual laboratory setting. This course is designed to prepare students for other in-depth 600-level scientific courses, for their rotations, and for future laboratory work. Exams will be “experimental” in nature (e.g., “design and experiment to do something…” or “in this type of situation, which technique/vector/etc. would best be used, and why…”). Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 65200 - Advanced Ecology Discussion


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Weekly meetings to discuss and evaluate seminal papers in the fields of evolutionary, population, and community ecology. During the last week, students will critically evaluate a contemporary paper on a topic related to the “classic” papers discussed during the semester. Students will have a choice among papers submitted by participating faculty members; their critique will be assessed on content, originality, rigor, and clarity. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 65300 - Advanced Evolution Discussion


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Weekly meetings to discuss and evaluate seminal papers in the fields of evolution and population biology. During the last week, students will critically evaluate a contemporary paper on a topic related to the “classic” papers discussed during the semester. Students will have a choice among papers submitted by participating faculty members; their critique will be assessed on content, originality, rigor, and clarity. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 66200 - Seminar Methods And Professional Development I


    Credit Hours: 1.00. An introduction for incoming graduate students to methods of seminar presentation and critique and to various guidelines for professional development during their graduate school experience. Topics include research laboratory safety (REM), how to give a talk, acclimating to graduate studies (especially time management), how to select a major professor and an advisory committee, how to prepare for qualifying exams, Purdue University guidelines for responsible conduct of research, how to organize a poster presentation, how to negotiate with mentors, and expectations for success. The course also serves to socialize the incoming cohort of students among themselves and with more senior students in the broad range of research disciplines available. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BIOL 66300 - Seminar Methods And Professional Development II


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is a continuation of BIOL 66200  and expands the introduction for incoming graduate students to methods of seminar presentation and critique and to various guidelines for professional development during their graduate school experience. Topics include seminar topic selection and 20-minute seminar design, tutorials on electronic services at the PU Library and Citation Management programs, and evaluating classmate presentations. Using the skills learned the previous semester, each student is required to make a 20-minute PowerPoint presentation to the class, based on a pre-approved topic of their choice. The speaker is asked questions and the presentation receives written evaluations by all members of the class. Each student practices with the course instructor prior to the public presentation. The course also continues to socialize the incoming cohort of students among themselves and with more senior students in the broad range of research disciplines available. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 68100 - Advanced Eukaryotic Genetics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed for graduate students who wish to refresh their knowledge of the fundamental principles of eukaryotic transmission and molecular genetics, to explore new and developing areas of genetic research in depth, and to learn of genetic tools that can be applied within their own research. Lecture materials will be supplemented with class discussions of primary literature. Topic areas comprise epigenetic phenomena, developmental genetics, and systems biology. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BIOL 69100 - Biological Research Methods


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Open to graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences and designed primarily for students in their first year of graduate study. The course consists of two laboratory assignments, each of which lasts about two months. Students may take one or two of these per semester. During each laboratory assignment, the student will be exposed to methods, equipment, and experimental procedures currently in use in a particular departmental research laboratory selected by the student and through arrangement with the professor in charge of that laboratory. Admission by consent of the departmental Graduate and Advanced Studies Committee. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BIOL 69500 - Special Assignments


    Arrange Hours and Credit. Special work, such as directed reading; independent study or research; supervised library, laboratory, or field work; or presentation of material not available in the formal courses of the department. The field in which work is offered will be indicated in the student’s record. Primarily for Ph.D. candidates. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BIOL 69600 - Seminar


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Each semester there are several separate seminar offerings. They will likely be on the following topics: biochemistry, crystallography, ecology and population biology, genetics, mechanisms of development, microbiology, neurobiology, and plant physiology. The student’s record will indicate the specific seminars in which he/she has participated. Oral presentations required. At least two credits are required of Ph.D. candidates. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BIOL 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BIOL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Biomedical Engineering

  
  • BME 19500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 4.00. Specialized topic areas in BME for which there are not specific courses, workshops, or individual study plans, but having sufficient student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 20100 - Biomolecules: Structure, Function, And Engineering Applications


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Classes of molecules (biomolecules) such as sugars, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids that form the cellular components of living organisms. Explores the chemistry behind the structure and function of these important classes of biological molecules. Hydrogen-bonding, hydrophobic forces, electrostatis interactions along with other weak interactions discussed with reference to their importance in biomolecular systems in an engineering context. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 20400 - Biomechanics Of Hard And Soft Tissues


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Covers the mechanics of biological materials, with applications in the musculo-skeletal system, nerves, spinal cord, and vascular tissue, down to the level of the cell. Topics include center of mass, moment of inertia, basic understanding of stresses, strains, and deformations, axial elements, pressure vessels, beams, torsion, viscoelasticity, and thermal stress. Case studies and problem solving sessions used to emphasize the unique biological criteria which must be considered when mechanically analyzing both soft and hard tissues. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 20500 - Biomolecular And Cellular Systems Laboratory


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Introductory laboratory experience focused on engineering concepts and practices in the analysis of biomolecules and cells. Topics include fundamental quantitative techniques of analysis, methods of isolation, identification, and quantification of biomolecules and cells, and analysis of integrated biosystems. Concludes with student-driven design project. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 20600 - Biomechanics And Biomaterials Laboratory


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Provides hands-on training in engineering and biological principles of biomaterials and biomechanics. Topics include evaluation and interpretation of experimental results, modeling and testing of tissue and body mechanics, and interactions of living (e.g., tissue/cell) and nonliving (e.g., biomaterial) systems. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 25600 - Physiological Modeling In Human Health


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the physiology and medicine underlying practical problems in biomedical engineering, especially with respect to medical device development. Engineering skills taught and practiced within the context of human disease, injury, and illness on extended problem sets which include mathematical modeling and problem solving with appropriate documentation. Main physiological systems of focus are cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal, and common afflictions thereof. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 29000 - Frontiers In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course introduces the rapidly emerging field of biomedical engineering by exposing students to a wide range of research activities in the Weldon School and to a variety of experimental learning opportunities. Topics addressed include career paths, professional development opportunities, and career development skills including creating a plan of study, informational and job interviewing, writing a resume, technical writing, preparing effective oral presentations, and peer-editing. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 29500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Specialized topic areas for which there are no specific courses, workshops, or individual study plans, but having sufficient interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 29600 - Biomedical Engineering Projects


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Individual research projects to be approved by the supervising faculty member before registering for the course. An approved written report is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 30100 - Bioelectricity


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of bioelectricity of the mammalian nervous system and other excitable tissues. Passive and active forms of electric signals in both the single cell and cell-cell communication, tissue and systematic bioelectricity, mathematical analysis including Nernst equation, Goldman equation, linear cable theory, and Hodgkin-Huxley Model of action potential generation and propagation. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 30400 - Biomedical Transport Fundamentals


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental concepts and principles of momentum, heat, and mass transport phenomena in the context of biomedical applications. Integrated biological topics include transport of physiological fluids (e.g. blood), mass transport (e.g. oxygen and nutrients), forced convection (e.g. hemodialysis) and unsteady-state molecular diffusion (e.g. drug delivery mechanisms). Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 30500 - Bioinstrumentation Circuit And Measurement Principles


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction of laboratory instruments used to measure physiological events. Stimulation and conduction of electric signals within the nervous system and other excitable tissues are demonstrated. Fundamental circuit elements and concepts include resistance, capacitance, inductance, op-amps, impedance, voltage, current, power, and frequency. Fundamental analog measurement concepts include adequate bandwidth and amplitude and phase linearity. An integrative two-week design project addresses the practical aspects of quantitative physiological measurements. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 30600 - Biotransport Laboratory


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Practical experience with transport principles related to physiological systems is presented through inquiry-based modules. Modules contain elements of computer simulation, experimental design, implementation, and data analysis and address biomedical applications. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 38199 - Professional Practice Co-Op I


    Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II


    Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III


    Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 39000 - Professional Development And Design In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Introduction to a diverse spectrum of current topics relevant to the technical, professional, and career aspects of Biomedical Engineers. The course topics will focus on the early stages of the design process (e.g. need identification, problem formulation, innovation and idea generation), professional communication skills (e.g. written and oral reporting and documentation), and ethics of biomedical design and research (e.g. ethical codes and decision making, animal care and use in research and testing, authorship and intellectual property, social and environmental impact of design). Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 39500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Specialized topic areas for which there are no specific courses, workshops, or individual study plans, but having sufficient student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 39699 - Professional Practice Internship


    Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 40100 - Mathematical & Computational Analysis Of Complex System Dynamics In Biology, Medicine, & Healthcare


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to analysis of complex system dynamics that appear in biology, medicine, and healthcare. Key topics include nonlinear dynamical concepts associated with phase plane, bifurcation, stability diagram, oscillation, and chaotic systems along with concepts from discrete systems and stochastic processes. These topics are taught within the context of mathematical and computational models related to both non-communicable diseases (i.e. cancer) and communicable diseases (i.e. HIV/AIDS). Courses projects are drawn from recent literature. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 40500 - Biomedical Engineering Design Project


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Design and management of biomedical engineering projects. Teams design and implement a solution to a biomedical engineering problem utilizing skills gained in previous course work. Oral and written presentation of design and demonstration of function are required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 48800 - Preliminary Senior Project Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00. The preliminary stages of design are completed during these lab hours. Students will work with their teammates to develop a problem statement with appropriate technical specifications, complete the relevant literature and market analysis, derive and justify a preliminary design, and outline a plan to successfully complete the project. The resulting preliminary design is presented and evaluated through an oral presentation and a written report. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 48900 - Senior Design Project Lab


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The biomedical engineering design process is completed starting from a preliminary system design. Student will work with their teammates to implement (e.g. build, test, iterate and evaluate) a solution to address a biomedical engineering problem statement and meet the technical specifications set forth. The resulting project design is presented and evaluated through an oral presentation, laboratory demonstration, and a final written document. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 49000 - Professional Elements Of Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course advances and enhances design tools, concepts, and knowledge relevant to biomedical engineering design. Students work individually and in small teams to investigate the topic within the context of their specific senior design project in preparation for their lab. Topics include project management, human and animal subjects, ethics, regulatory affairs, literature and patent searching, and entrepreneurship. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 49500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Specialized topic areas for which there are no specific courses, workshops, or individual study plans, but having sufficient student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 49800 - Biomedical Engineering Projects


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Individual research projects to be approved by the supervising faculty member before registering for the course. An approved written report is required. . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 52100 - Biosensors: Fundamentals And Applications


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ABE 56000 ) An introduction to the field of biosensors and an in-depth and quantitative view of device design and performance analysis. An overview of the current state of the art to enable continuation into advanced biosensor work and design. Topics emphasize biomedical, bioprocessing, environmental, food safety, and biosecurity applications. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 52800 - Measurement And Stimulation Of The Nervous System


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ECE 52800 ) Engineering principles addressing questions of clinical significance in the nervous system: neuroanatomy, fundamental properties of excitable tissues, hearing, vision, motor function, electrical and magnetic stimulation, functional neuroimaging, disorders of the nervous system, development and refinement of sensory prostheses. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 54000 - Biomechanics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of engineering mechanics to the study of normal and diseased musculoskeletal systems, including bone and soft tissue biology, musculoskeletal statics and dynamics, mechanical properties of biological tissues, and structural analysis of bone-implant systems. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 55100 - Tissue Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (BMS 52300) Integrates the principles and methods of engineering and life sciences toward the fundamental understanding of structure-function relationships in normal and pathological mammalian tissues, especially as they relate to the development of biological substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve tissue/organ function. Current concepts and strategies, including drug delivery, tissue and cell transplantation, bioartificial organs, and in vivo tissue regeneration are introduced, as well as their respective clinical applications. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 55300 - Biomedical Optics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Optical methods applied to address biological and biomedical problems. The course includes two parts: fundamentals of optical microscopy and advanced techniques that are currently used to probe and/or manipulate cell and tissue samples. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 58100 - Fundamentals Of MEMS And Micro-Integrated Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ECE 52600 ) Key topics in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and biological micro-integrated systems; properties of materials for MEMS; microelectronic process modules for design and fabrication. Students will prepare a project report on the design of a biomedical MEMS-based micro-integrated system. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 58300 - Biomaterials


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Discussion of principles of biomaterial design, synthesis, and evaluation for various tissues/organs of the body, including orthopaedic/dental, cardiovascular, kidney, liver, lung, skin, nerve, and brain. Topics include fundamentals of materials science and engineering integrated into biology for the better regeneration of tissue. Offered in alternate years. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 59500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course is designed primarily for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 60000 - Mentoring For Combined Degree (MD/PhD) Students in BME


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Specialized course for M.D./Ph.D. students that is intended to maintain communication and orientation to the BME graduate program during the first two years of the combined degree program when students are completing medical school requirements on the Indianapolis campus. Requirements include attendance at one or more BME seminars on the West Lafayette campus; at least two research planning sessions with BME faculty members, BME graduate program coordinator, or assistant head; and participation in one additional graduate program activity. Permission of department required. Prerequisite is admissions to the Combined MD/PhD Degree program. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 62600 - Engineering Nanomedical Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Doctoral level course dealing with engineering design of nanomedical devices for drug/gene delivery. The course covers medical needs for nanomedicine; uses of nanomaterials, biomarkers and targeting strategies; uses of bionanotechnology instrumentation for characterization of nanomedical systems and their interactions with cells; drug/gene delivery methods; biodistribution and nantoxicity issues; FDA regulations and cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) bionanomanufacturing principles. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BME 63000 - Introduction To Biomedical Imaging Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ECE 62000 ) Overview of biomedical imaging systems and analysis. Examination of various imaging modalities, including X-ray, ultrasound, nuclear, and MRI. Microscopy including how images are formed and what types of information they provide. Image analysis techniques, including analysis of cardiac ultrasound, mammography, and MRI functional imagery. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: ECE 63700  with minimum grade of D-. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 65800 - Cell And Tissue Culture: Techniques And Application Module


    Credit Hours: 2.00. (BMS 63500 ) This intensive laboratory module is designed to provide students from various disciplines (e.g., life science and engineering) with practical, hands-on experiences in the area of cell and tissue culture. Students are taught the principles of culturing cells and tissues in vitro and have the opportunity to apply state-of-the-art culturing techniques to both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional culture systems. Specific methodologies focus on both qualitative and quantitative analysis of fundamental cell behavior, including proliferation, differentiation, migration, and adhesion. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BME 69000 - Seminar In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Seminar course covering a broad range of current research topics spanning Biomedical Engineering. Seminar presentations by representatives from industry and faculty from Purdue University and other external institutions. Required of Biomedical Engineering graduate students at Purdue; M.S. and Ph.D. students must complete two and four semesters (respectively) prior to graduation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BME 69500 - Advanced Topics In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course is designed primarily for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of an advanced course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 69600 - Advanced Biomedical Engineering Projects


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Individual research projects to be approved by the supervising faculty member before registering for the course. An approved written report is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 69700 - Directed Reading In Biomedical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individualized reading course supervised by an appropriate faculty member. Approval for each reading course must be obtained from the department prior to registration. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • BME 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Botany and Plant Pathology

  
  • BTNY 11000 - Introduction To Plant Science


    Credit Hours: 4.00. An introduction to the major groups in the plant kingdom, their origin, classification, and economic importance. The areas of anatomy, morphology, cytology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and ecology will be explored as they relate to plant sciences and agriculture. Course may also be offered for dual credit with cooperating Indiana high schools upon documented approval by the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BTNY 20100 - Plants And Civilization


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course, intended primarily for non-majors, covers the history of agriculture, with focus on the centers of origin of our major food, fiber, and medicinal plants, and their historical, cultural, and economic relevance. The course also surveys the biology of crop plants, with respect to taxonomy, anatomy, cell structure, physiology, development, and genetics. Discussions also center on the roles plant biotechnology may play in sustainable agriculture and in helping to alleviate problems caused by overpopulation and ecological stress. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BTNY 20400 - Crop and Weed Identification


    Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. (AGRY 20400 ) The identification by sight of plant mounts and seeds of over 200 crops and weeds is taught. The first eight weeks, which covers restricted weeds, prohibited noxious weeds, common weeds, and seed diseases, can be taken for one credit; the last eight weeks covers cereals, grass and legume forages, and legume crops. The list of species to be studied for two credits is obtained from the Intercollegiate Crops Judging Manual. The species to be covered for one credit include the above-listed weeds and additional weed specimens pertinent to the weeds contest. The use and origins of the species are discussed briefly. Suggested course in preparation for AGRY 30500 - Seed Analysis And Grain Grading . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BTNY 20700 - The Microbial World


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course delivers a broad synthesis of microbiology, discussing all taxa of the microbial world. The course also discusses a wide range of subjects related to microbiology, including medical microbiology, but it has a strong emphasis on the botanical and environmental sciences. One particular characteristic that separates it from other microbiology courses is the reduced emphasis upon bacteriology, with discussions of the protists and viruses and, especially of the fungi, occurring in greater detail than the other general microbiology courses available. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BTNY 20900 - Plant Diversity


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Students will learn how to identify the major divisions of the plant kingdom, from green algae to flowering plants, based upon their morphological characteristics. Students will also learn how the evolutionary relationships among these divisions are determined using traditional and modern approaches. An emphasis will be placed on plants that grow in Tippecanoe County and surrounding counties. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • BTNY 21100 - Plants And The Environment


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Plants are essential to environmental and human health, and the issues related to these interactions have received much public attention. This course provides the scientific basis for issues-related topics such as the impact of plants on biodiversity; how plants affect and are affected by global climate changes and pollution; the role of plants as invasive species; ways in which plants can help solve environmental problems; and the consequences of human manipulation of plants (e.g. genetic engineering, bioremediation) on plant communities and ecosystems. . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BTNY 27500 - Honors Course - Lower Division


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to first-and second-year students. Courses offered must be approved by department or program faculty, and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall, Spring, Summer.
  
  • BTNY 30100 - Introductory Plant Pathology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of plant pathology, including etiology, symptomatology, control, and epidemiology of representative diseases of plants. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • BTNY 30200 - Plant Ecology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Offered in odd-numbered years. This course will provide an introduction to the broad field of plant ecology. Through lectures and lab assignments, students will gain an in-depth understanding of ecological concepts regarding the occurrence and distribution of plant species and populations. Students will also gain insights into the application of these concepts to the conservation and management of plant species and populations. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • BTNY 30400 - Introductory Weed Science


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the scientific principles underlying weed control practices; emphasis is on the ecology of weeds and control in crop associations. It is recommended that this course be followed by BTNY 50400 . Typically offered Spring.
 

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