Full List of Focus Area Courses (Fall 2024 and earlier)

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Courses in Focus Area 1: Molecular and Cellular Systems

•   BEE 4550/6550 – Biologically Inspired Microsystems Engineering (Spring, 2-3 credits)
•   BEE 4590/5590 – Physical Design in Biological Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•   BEE/ENGRG 5330 – Engineering Professionalism (Spring, 1 credit)
•    BME 3010 – Cellular Principles of Biomedical Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 3020 – Molecular Principles of Biomedical Engineering (CHEME 4020) (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BME 4010 – Biomedical Engineering Analysis of Metabolic and Structural Systems (MAE 4660) (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 4910 – Principles of Neurophysiology (Spring, 4 credits)
•    BME 5110/6110 – Stem Cell Bioengineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 5510 – Medical Device Reglulatory Affairs for Biomedical Engineers (Fall, 2 credits)
•    BME/AEP 5700 – Biophysical Methods (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 6120 – Precision and Genomic Medicine (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 6180 – Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 6320 – Modern Biomedical Microscopy (Spring, 3 credits)
•    CHEME 5430 – Bioprocess Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)

Courses in Focus Area 2: Ecological and Microbial Systems

•    BEE 4590/5590 – Physical Design in Biological Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE/ENGRG 5330 – Engineering Professionalism (Spring, 1 credit)
•   BEE 6740 – Ecohydrology (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BME 6320 – Modern Biomedical Microscopy (Spring, 3 credits)
•    CEE 4535 – Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    CEE 6570 – Biological Processes (Spring, 3 credits)
•    CHEME 5430 – Bioprocess Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)

Courses in Focus Area 3: Nanobiotechnology

Courses in Focus Area 4: Computational Biological Engineering

•   BEE 3900/5900 – Biorobotics (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE/MAE 4530/5530 – Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Processes (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BEE 4590/5590 – Physical Design in Biological Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE 4630/6630 – Digital Food Engineering (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BEE 4560/6560 – Ecological Mechanics (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BEE/ENGRG 5330 – Engineering Professionalism (Spring, 1 credit)
•    BME 3310 – Medical and Preclinical Imaging (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BME 3410 – Systems Mechanobiology (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BME 4390/5390 – Circuits, Signals and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory (Fall, 4 credits)
•   BME 5310 – Machine Learning with Biomedical Data (ECE 5970)
•    BME 6320 – Modern Biomedical Microscopy (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BME 6350 – Introduction to Neurotechnology (Fall, 3 credits)
•   CHEME/SYSEN 6800 – Computational Optimization (Fall 4 credits)
•   CS 4220 – Numerical Analysis: Linear and Nonlinear Problems (CS 5223, MATH 4260) (Spring, 4 credits)
•   CS/INFO 5306 – Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (Fall, 4 credits)
•   CS 4700/5700 – Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Fall, 3 credits)
•    CS 4701 – Practicum in Artificial Intelligence (Spring, 2 credits)
•    CS 4775 – Computational Genetics and Genomics (BTRY 4840/6840) (Fall, 4 credits)
•    CS 4780/5780 – Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall, 4 credits)
•    CS 4820/5820 – Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms (Fall, 4 credits)
•    CS 4850/5850 – Mathematical Foundations for the Information Age (Spring, 4 credits
•    ECE 3250 – Mathematics of Signal and System Analysis (Fall, 4 credits)
•    ECE 4271/5271 – Evolutionary Processes, Evolutionary Algorithms and Game Theory (Spring, 3 credits)
•    MAE 4700/5700 – Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical and Aerospace Design (MAE 4701) (Fall, 3 credits)
•    ORIE 3300/5300 – Optimization I (Fall, 4 credits)
•    ORIE 4350 – Introduction to Game Theory (ORIE 5350) (Fall, 4 credits)
•    ORIE 4580/5580 – Simulation Modeling and Analysis (Fall, 4 credits)
•    ORIE 4740/5740 – Statistical Data Mining I (Spring, 4 credits)
•    ORIE 4741/5751 – Learning with Big Messy Data (Fall, 3-4 credits)
•    ORIE 4820/5820 – Spreadsheet-Based Modeling and Data Analysis (Spring, 3 credits)
•    SYSEN 5100 – Model Based Systems Engineering (Fall, 4 credits)
•    SYSEN 5220/6220 – System Dynamics (Fall, 3 credits)
•    SYSEN 5740 – Design Thinking for Complex Systems (Spring, 2 credits)

Courses in Focus Area 5: Synthetic Biology

Courses in Focus Area 6: Biomaterials

•    BEE 4590/5590 – Physical Design in Biological Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE/ENGRG 5330 – Engineering Professionalism (Spring, 1 credit)
•   BEE 6400 – Advanced Topics in Biomaterials (Fall, 2 credits)
•   BEE 7600 – Nucleic Acid Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•   BME 5390* – Circuits, Signals and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory (BME 4390) (FSAD 4390: if taken Fall 2019 and prior) (Fall, 4 credits)
•   BME 5810 – Soft Tissue Biomechanics
•   BME 5830 – Cell Biomaterial Interactions (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BME 5850 – Current Practice in Tissue Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 6210 – Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery (CHEME 6310) (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BME 6320 – Modern Biomedical Microscopy (Spring, 3 credits)
•    CHEME 6400 – Polymeric Materials (Spring, 3 credits)
•    MSE 4610 – Biomedical Materials and Their Applications (Fall, 3 credits)
•    MSE 5210 – Properties of Solid Polymers (Spring, 3 credits)
•    MSE 5230 – Physics of Soft Materials (Fall, 3 credits)
•    MSE/BME 5620 – Biomineralization: The Formation and Properties of Inorganic Biomaterials (Spring, 3 credits)
•    ORIE 4100/5100 – Manufacturing Systems Design: A Consulting Boot Camp (Fall, 4 credits)

*NOTE: FSAD 4390 does not count unless taken Fall 2019 and prior, this is no longer cross-listed with BME 5390)

Courses in Focus Area 7: Sustainability

•    BEE 3280/6280 – Systems and Synthetic Biology for Sustainable Energy (Fall, 3 credits)
•   BEE 3299/5299 – Sustainable Development (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BEE 3710 – Physical Hydrology for Ecosystems (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BEE 4270/5270 – Water Measurement and Analysis Methods (Fall, 3 credits)
•   BEE 4110/6110 – Hydrologic Engineering in a Changing Climate (Fall (odd numbered years), 3 credits)
•   BEE 4310/6310 – Multivariate Statistics for Environmental Applications (Spring (even numbered years), 3 credits)
•    BEE 4590/5590 – Physical Design in Biological Engineering (Fall, 3 credits)
•   BEE 4710/6710 – Introduction to Groundwater (EAS 4710/6710) (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BEE 4730/5730 – Watershed Engineering (Fall, 4 credits)
•   BEE 4750/5750 – Environmental Systems Analysis (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE/EAS 4800/6800 – Atmospheric Chemistry: From Air Pollution to Global Change (Fall, 3 credits)
•    BEE 4850/5850 – Environmental Data Analysis and Simulation (Spring, 3 credits)
•   BEE/CEE 4880/6880 – Applied Modeling and Simulation for Renewable Energy Systems (Spring, 3 credits)
•    BEE/ENGRG 5330 – Engineering Professionalism (Spring, 1 credit)
•    BEE/MAE 5459 – Energy Seminar I (Fall, 1 credit)
•    BEE/MAE 5469 – Energy Seminar II (Spring, 1 credit)
•    CEE 4210/6210 – Renewable Energy Systems (Fall, 3 credits)
•    CHEME 4880 – Global Food, Energy and Water Nexus – Engage the US, China and India for Sustainability (Fall, 3-4 credits)
•    CHEME 6660 – Analysis of Sustainable Energy Systems (Fall, 2 credits)
•    CHEME 66XX – Modules for CHEME 6660
•    MAE 4020 – Wind Power
•    MAE 5010 – Future Energy Systems (Spring, 3 credits)
•    ORIE 4100/5100 – Manufacturing Systems Design: A Consulting Boot Camp (Fall, 4 credits)

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