Bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering

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This program begins with the First-Year Engineering experience, which grounds students in foundational engineering courses. After earning Engineering Standing, students begin taking required biomedical engineering (BME) courses. The program culminates in a unique two-semester interdisciplinary Capstone Senior Design project that challenges students to creatively engineer a solution to a healthcare issue posed by collaborating industrial or healthcare partners. BME and product design courses jointly created and taught by BME and College of Design faculty build “Design Thinking” into students’ approach to solving healthcare problems and form the backbone of the BME major. The undergraduate BME program is designed for students who aspire to engineer innovative treatments, devices, materials, technologies or processes that improve human healthcare. Outstanding students seeking careers in industry, the healthcare professions, government agencies or graduate studies in BME are most likely to maximize the benefits of this program.