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Biomedical Engineering Supplemental Information

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Biomedical Engineering Selectives

Below are the lists of courses approved to fulfill the following requirements in the Biomedical Engineering BS program:

  • Life Science Requirements (6 credits)
  • Technical Engineering Requirements (15 credits)
  • General Education Requirements (18 credits)

Life Science Selectives (6 credits)

Below are the courses approved by the BME Curriculum Committee. Any student can petition to get a course added to this list by completing and submitting the Course Approval Request Form (available on the BME website).

Please access myPurdue to confirm the semester courses are offered. They can change due to instructor availability, pre-requisites, and course offering rotation. In some cases an override may have to be requested.

Only one PUBH course may be used to complete the Life Science Selective requirements. 

Technical Engineering Selectives (15 Credits)

Below are the courses approved by the BME Curriculum Committee. Any student can petition to get a course added to this list by completing and submitting the Course Approval Request Form (available on the BME website).

Please access myPurdue to confirm the semester courses are offered. They can change due to instructor availability and course offering rotation. In some cases an override may have to be requested.

BME Technical Engineering Selective Policy:

A total of 15 credit hours must be completed with the following requirements and restrictions:

  • Two 3-credit hour Quantitative Breadth (QB) courses, one of which must be a Data Science-focused QB course.
  • A maximum of six credit hours may be taken at the 300-level.
  • At least one 3 credit hour BME course must be taken at the 400-level from the Biomedical Engineering list.
  • The 400-level BME Technical Engineering Selective course must be successfully completed with a B or above before any 500-level BME course can be taken. This 400-level tech elective must be a 400-level from the Biomedical Engineering curriculum.
  • Only one Regulatory Selective can count toward the Technical Engineering Selective requirement.
  • Students enrolling in a BME course cross-listed with another department should register for the BME section on myPurdue

Quantitative Breadth Selectives List (6 credits)

Choose one course from the Data Science-Focused Quantitative Breadth (QB) course list, and a second one from either QB list.

Data Science-Focused Quantitative Breadth Course​s: (Must choose at least one)

Additional Quantitative Breadth Courses:

Other Technical Engineering Selectives

Regulatory Selectives List

Optional. Only one Regulatory Selective can count toward the Technical Engineering Selectives requirements.

General Education Selectives (18 Credits)

  • General Education I - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • General Education II - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • General Education III - Credit Hours: 3.00 
  • General Education IV - Ethics and Policy Healthcare Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (C- or better)
  • General Education V - Credit Hours: 3.00 (30000+ level/Upper level)
  • General Education VI - Credit Hours: 3.00 (30000+ level/Upper level)

 

General Education for Written & Oral Communication are met in First-Year Engineering - Credit Hours: 6.00-7.00

General Education Courses can be used to meet Univeristy Core Requirements.

  • BME Undergraduate students must complete 24 credits of general education. General education courses are non-technical courses that provide a broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.
  • Many courses count for both General Education and Univeristy Core Curriculum (UCC) Foundational Learning Outcomes (FLO) but many do not. When choosing courses to fulfill these requirements, students will need to check both the UCC FLO course list and the BME Approved General Education Course List found below.


     

The following requirements must be met:

  • At least 3 credits must be from the Ethics and Policy Healthcare list which is included as a general education course. See list below.
  • At least 12 credits must be taken inside the College of Liberal Arts, the Krannert School of Management and/or the Honors College.
  • At least 6 credits of the general education courses must be at the non-introductory level, meaning they are at the 30000-level or higher, or have a required prerequisite in the same department.
  • The remaining courses may be taken from any of the following departments. If a student is unsure about a course counting for their general education requirement, see academic advisor BEFORE taking the course.

Ethics and Policy Healthcare Selective (3 credits)

BME students must complete at least 3 credits (earning a C- or better) addressing ethical and policy issues in healthcare and medicine. It is important that our students have an awareness of societal, regulatory, policy, and ethical considerations that influence healthcare and medicine. Thus, we require our students to take at least one course that advances their knowledge in this area.

Liberal Arts/Management/Honors (12 Credits)

At least 12 credits* must be taken inside the College of Liberal Arts, the Krannert School of Management and/or the Honors College. This includes courses with the following departmental prefixes:

AAS, AD, AMST, ANTH, ARAB, ASAM, ASL, CHNS, CLCS, CMPL, COM, DANC, ECON, ENGL, FR, GER, HEBR, HIST, HONR, ITAL, JPNS, JWST, LALS, LATN, LC, LING, MARS, MGMT, MUS, PHIL, POL, PTGS, REL, RUSS, SOC, SPAN, THTR, WGSS

* 6-7 credits may be fulfilled by the Written and Oral Communication requirements of First Year Engineering.

Additional General Education Selectives (9 credits)

An additional 9 credits must be taken from either the departments in the Liberal Arts/Management/Honors list, or from the following additional departments:

AGEC, CSR, EDCI, EDPS, EDST, ENTR, HDFS, PSY, SLHS

General Education No Count List

The following courses may not be used to satisfy any General Education Selectives for the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering:

No Count List - BSBME

The following courses may not be used to satisfy any requirement of the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering:

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