Master of Engineering Degree Plan

Pathway 1: Technology, Strategy and Operations

• 15 hrs – BMEN courses
  
  • May not use any hours of BMEN 685
• 12 hrs – Electives
  • May use up to 3 hours of BMEN 685
  • May use BMEN or non-BMEN courses
• 2 hrs – BMEN 676 (Professional Development for Biomedical Engineering), fall only
• 1 hr – BMEN 684 (Professional Internship and Immersion Experience), typically summer terms

Pathway 2: Medical Device Design Engineering

• 12 hrs – BMEN courses
  • May not use any hours of BMEN 685
• 12 hrs – Electives
  • May use up to 3 hours of BMEN 685
  • May use BMEN or non-BMEN courses
• 2 hrs – BMEN 676 (Professional Development for Biomedical Engineering), fall only
• 4 hrs - BMEN 643 (Risk-Based Development and Testing of Medical Devices), fall only
• 1 hr – BMEN 684 (Professional Internship and Immersion Experience), typically summer terms

Pathway 3: Historical

• 16 hrs – BMEN courses
  
  • May not use any hours of BMEN 685
• 9 hrs – Electives
  • May use up to 3 hours of BMEN 685
  • May use BMEN or non-BMEN courses
• 2 hrs – BMEN 676 (Professional Development for Biomedical Engineering), fall only
• 2 hrs - BMEN 681 (2, one-hour seminars), fall and spring terms
• 1 hr – BMEN 684 (Professional Internship and Immersion Experience), typically summer terms

Additional Degree Plan Information

• May use up to 6 hours of upper-level undergraduate coursework (300 or 400 level) on degree plan with approval of chair/committee.
• Upper-level courses must come from a major that is outside of the student’s previous undergraduate (or master’s) level major.
• Undergraduate coursework required for leveling may not be applied to a graduate degree plan.