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Biomedical Engineering Supplemental Information

Location(s): West Lafayette, Indianapolis

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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 (21 credits)
  • Ethics/Policy Healthcare Requirement (3 credits)

BME Depth Area Selectives (9 credits)

Students are required to select a primary depth area and complete the two required courses as part of their BME undergraduate degree requirements. Students are also required to select a secondary depth area and complete one of the two required courses for that depth area.

  • Primary Depth Area I - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Primary Depth Area II - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Secondary Depth Area - Credit Hours: 3.00

Life Science Selectives (6 credits)

Below are the courses approved by the BME Curriculum Committee.

  • 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.

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:

  • One 3-credit hour Quantitative Breadth (QB) course and one 3-credit hour Data Science-focused QB course (cannot be the same 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. This cannot be BME 49800.

  • 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 and cannot be BME 49800.
  • Only one Regulatory Selective can count toward the Technical Engineering Selective requirement.
  • One 3-credit course of the Technical Engineering Selective requirements may be satisfied with any of the following approved mentored experiential learning options (must complete all in the same category):
    3 credits of EPICS (200-level or higher)
    3 credits of VIP (200-level or higher)
    3 credits of BME 49800 research for credit (with restrictions)
  • Students enrolling in a BME course cross-listed with another department should register for the BME section on myPurdue
  • Any Depth Area course can be taken for Tech Selective credit if not used towards the Depth Area requirement.

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 (21 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 - 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 VII - Credit Hours: 3.00

General Education for Written & Oral Communication may be 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 21 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 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.

Liberal Arts/Management/Honors (12 credits)

At least 12 credits must be taken inside the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Business 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, SCLA, SOC, SPAN, THTR, WGSS

Additional General Education Selectives (9 credits)

An additional 9 credits must be taken from either the departments in the Liberal Arts/Business/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:

Ethics and Policy Healthcare Requirement (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.

​​​​​​​Course(s) taken to fulfill this requirement cannot also count towards the General Education Requirement.

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