Computational Bioengineering

The computational bioengineering track teaches students to use computational approaches–such as molecular modeling, computational biomechanics, computational bioimaging, and healthcare informatics–to solve biological and medical problems.

Application areas include:

• Bioinformatics
• Decoding multi-omics information
• Disease and injury modeling and simulation
• Personalized medical information systems development
• Pharmaceutical design

Required Courses (select 6 hours)

BMEN 401 – Principles and Analyses of Biological Control Systems
BMEN 471 – Numerical Analysis for Biomedical Engineering

Track Courses (select 6-9 hours)

BIOL 350 – Computational Genomics
BMEN 463 – Soft Tissue Mechanics and Finite Element Methods
BMEN 491 – Research*
MEEN 422 – Computer-Aided Engineering
MSEN 444 – Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering

Other Courses (select 0-3 hours)

BMEN 404 – FDA Good Laboratory and Clinical Practices
BMEN 406 – Medical Device Path to Market
BMEN 469 – Entrepreneurial Issues in BMEN
BMEN 4XX – BMEN Elective (subject to approval)
CHEM 228 – Organic Chemistry II
ENGR 385 – Co-Op (one semester credit hour per term up to three credit hours)
VTPB 410 – Cell Mechanisms of Disease
VTPP 401 – History of Medicine in Europe

Notes

*No more than 3 hours of BMEN 491 will count toward technical elective requirements.

Proposed deviations from the required courses, track courses and other courses from sections above must be approved in advance by a Track Coordinator and the Director of Undergraduate Programs.

Track Coordinators