Biomedical Engineering Designated Minor
Jeffrey O. Hollinger, Director
Campus Office for Student Affairs: Doherty Hall 2100
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) offers a minor program for those students who desire coordinated training in BME but may not have the time to pursue the BME additional major. The Biomedical Engineering Minor is designed to train students to apply engineering techniques to problems in medicine and biology. Emphasis is placed on describing biological organisms as engineering systems and on applying engineering technology to clinical and laboratory situations.
Upon completing the Biomedical Engineering Minor, the student may elect to continue graduate studies in Bioengineering or basic biomedical sciences at either the master's or Ph.D. levels. In addition, many of the courses in the BME minor will assist students in preparing for medical school. Students who remain in the field of biomedical engineering are involved in developing and improving medical instruments and devices, automating medical procedures using computers, characterizing the operation of physiological systems, designing artificial organs, and altering microbes and mammalian cells for the production of useful drugs and chemicals.
BME minor accepts undergraduate students from both within and outside CIT. Students in the minor program can choose from a wide range of electives in the track system to build marketable skills in a particular area of BME.
Requirements for CIT students: five courses, minimum of 48 units
03-121 Modern Biology
42-101 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (co-req. or pre-req. 03-121)
42-202 Physiology (pre-req. 03-121 or permission of instructor)
xx-xxx BME track course*, #
xx-xxx BME track course*
*Any track gateway, elective or capstone course from any of the four BME tracks may be counted. Please refer to the BME website (www.bme.cmu.edu) or to the BME listing in the course catalog for course descriptions.
Requirements for non-CIT students: six courses, minimum of 60 units
03-121 Modern Biology
42-101 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (co-req. or pre-req. 03-121)
xx-xxx A second Introductory Engineering Course
42-202 Physiology (pre-req. 03-121 or permission of instructor)
xx-xxx BME track course *, +, #
xx-xxx BME track course **
* Any track gateway, elective or capstone course from any of the four BME tracks may be counted. Please refer to the BME website (www.bme.cmu.edu) or to the BME listing in the course catalog for course descriptions.
+ This course cannot be a required course in the student's major.
** This course must be a track gateway, elective or capstone that is offered by one of the CIT Departments (06-xxx, 12-xxx, 18-xxx, 19-xxx, 24-xxx, 27-xxx or 42-xxx)
# Both CIT and non-CIT students may replace one BME track course with a research project, 42-200 Sophomore BME Research, 42-300 Junior BME Research, 42-400 Senior BME Research or 39-500 CIT Honors Thesis, as long as the research project is supervised by a regular or courtesy BME faculty member and the project is conducted for 9 or more units of credit.