Electives

The biomedical engineering curriculum includes 29 semester hours of electives, subject to the following requirements:

Humanities/Social Sciences Electives

ENGL 1101 and 1102 apply toward satisfaction of the 12 hour humanities requirement. An additional 6 hours of Institute-approved humanities courses are required to fulfill the 12 hour humanities requirement. To satisfy the state requirements regarding coursework in the history and constitutions of the United States and Georgia, students must complete one of the following courses: HIST 2111, HIST 2112 , POL 1101, PUBP 3000, or INTA 1200. One of these courses, combined with an additional 9 hours of Institute-approved social science courses, satisfies the 12 hour social sciences requirement.

BME Technical Electives

9 hours of BME technical elective courses are required. The purpose of these electives is to provide students with an opportunity for in-depth learning within sub-disciplines of biomedical engineering. These electives may be selected from the following list *.

  1. BMED 4400 Introduction to Neuroengineering
  2. BMED 4477 Biological Networks and Genomics
  3. BMED 4500 Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory
  4. BMED 4750 Diagnostic Imaging Physics
  5. BMED 4751 Introduction to Biomaterials
  6. BMED 4752 Introductory Neuroscience
  7. BMED 4757 Biofluid Mechanics
  8. BMED 4758 Biosolid Mechanics
  9. BMED 4765 Drug Design, Development, and Delivery
  10. BMED 4781 Biomedical Instrumentation
  11. BMED 4783 Introduction to Medical Image Processing
  12. BMED 4784 Engineering Electrophysiology
  13. BMED 2699/4699 Undergraduate Research **
  14. ECE 3710 Circuits & Electronics
  15. ECE 3741 Instrumentation & Electronics Lab

Students may use these electives to probe more deeply into multiple sub-disciplines, or choose to concentrate all courses within the same sub-discipline. For the latter case, the following combinations of electives are suggested:

  1. Cardiovascular Systems: BMED 4751, 4757, 4758, 4781 and/or 4784
  2. Biomechanics: BMED 4751, 4757 and 4758
  3. Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering: BMED 4500, 4751, 4758 and/or 4765
  4. Neuroengineering: BMED 4400, 4752, 4781 and 4784
  5. Medical Imaging: BMED 4750, 4752 and 4783

* Engineering courses not included in this list would need to be approved in advance by the BME associate chair for Undergraduate Studies. Such courses generally should be at least at the 4000 level and have content that adds depth to an area within the BMED curriculum. Seniors with a grade point average of at least 3.0 may schedule graduate-level BMED courses as acceptable alternatives, subject to the approval of the course instructor.

** Up to 6 hours of BMED 2699/4699 Undergraduate Research may be used to satisfy BME Technical elective requirements, provided the research was conducted in the same lab over a period of at least two semesters. BMED 2698/4698 can be used to satisfy the two-semester requirement.

Free Electives

3 or 4 hours , depending on which communications course (LCC 3401 or CHBE 4600) are taken.

Wellness Requirement

All undergraduate students attending Georgia Tech must satisfactorily complete a wellness requirement (HPS 1040 or equivalent).