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BME Program Schedule 2008 and later

BME - Biomedical Engineering Program Schedule

 
A list of pre-approved technical electives may be found here.

A print-friendly version of this flowchart may be found in the Viterbi Undergraduate Bulletin.


BS BME: First Year: Fall  
Course No. Course Title

Units

BME 101 Intro to Biomedical Engineering

3

CHEM 105aL General Chemistry

4

MATH 125 Calculus I

4

GE Category I or II

4

ENGR 102 Engineering Freshman Academy

2

     
  Total Units

17

     
BS BME: First Year: Spring  
Course No. Course Title

Units

CHEM 105bL General Chemistry

4

MATH 126 Calculus II

4

GE Category VI

4

WRIT 140 Writing and Critical Reasoning

4

     
  Total Units

16

     
BS BME: Second Year: Fall  
Course No. Course Title

Units

BISC 120L General Biology: Organismal Biology and Evolution

4

EE 150L Engineering Computational Methods

3

MATH 226 Calculus III

4

PHYS 151L Fundamentals of Physics I: Mechanics & Thermodynamics  4
     
  Total Units

15

     
BS BME: Second Year: Spring  
Course No. Course Title

Units

BISC 220L General Biology: Cell Biology and Physiology

4

BME 210 Biomedical Computer Simulation Methods

3

MATH 245 Mathematics of Physics & Engineering I

4

PHYS 152L Electricity and Magnetism

4

     
  Total Units

15

     
BS BME: Third Year: Fall  
Course No. Course Title

Units

CHEM 322aL Organic Chemistry

4

EE 202L Linear Circuits

4

BME 423 Stastical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

3

WRIT 340 Advanced Writing 3
Technical Elective Choose from Approved List

3

     
  Total Units

17

     
BS BME: Third Year: Spring  
Course No. Course Title

Units

CHEM 322bL Organic Chemistry

4

GE Category II or I

4

BME 302L Medical Electronics

4

Technical Elective Choose from Approved List

3

     
  Total Units

15

     
BS BME: Fourth Year: Fall  
Course No. Course Title

Units

BISC 320L Molecular Biology

4

BME 410 Intoduction to Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

3

BME 403 Physiological Systems

3

GE Category V

4

EE 301 Linear Systems 4
     
  Total Units

18

     
BS BME: Fourth Year: Spring  
     
Course No. Course Title

Units

BME 402 Control & Communication in the Nervous System

3

BME 414 or 425 Rehabilitation Engineering or Intro to Biomedical Imaging

3

BME 405L Senior Projects: Measurment & Instrumentation

4

Technical Elective Choose from Approved List

3

GE Category IV

4

 
 
 
 
Total Units
17