Academic Learning Compact - Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering blends traditional engineering techniques with biological sciences and medicine to improve the quality of human health and life. The discipline focuses on understanding complex living systems via experimental and analytical techniques, and on development of devices, methods and algorithms that advance medical and biological knowledge while improving the effectiveness and delivery of clinical medicine.

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Before Graduating You Must

• Pass assessment by two or more faculty and/or industry practitioners of student performance on a major design experience.
• Pass assessment in two courses of individual assignments targeted to each learning outcome. Assessment will be provided by the instructor of the course according to department standards.
• Complete an exit interview in your final semester.
• Complete requirements for the baccalaureate degree, as determined by faculty.

Skills You Will Acquire in the Major (SLOs)

1. Apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering principles to biomedical engineering problems.
2. Design and conduct biomedical engineering experiments and analyze and interpret the data.
3. Design and build biomedical devices within the constraints of safety and efficacy requirements of application to living organisms.
4. Communicate technical data and design information effectively in writing and in speech to other biomedical engineers.