Undergraduate Curriculum Information

For students that enter Yale with the equivalent of one year of calculus in high school, a typical B.S. in Biomedical Engineering degree curriculum might include the following engineering specific courses in partial fulfillment of the thirty-six courses and distributional requirements of Yale College:

 

Bioimaging track electives – BENG 404: Medical Device Design, 406: Medical Software Design, 410: Physical and Chemical Basis of Bioimaging and Biosensing, 436: Biophotonics & Optical Microscopy, 444: Medical Imaging, 445: Biomedical Image Processing & Analysis, BENG 449: Biomedical Data Analysis, 475: Computational Vision, 476: Advanced Computational Vision, 485: Neuroimaging.

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 434: Biomaterials, 453: Continuum Biomechanics, 455: Vascular Mechanics, 456: Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, 457: Biomechanics, 458: Multiscale Models of Biomechanical Systems; 459; Neuromuscular Biomechanics, MENG 185: Mechanical Design, 280: Strength and Deformation, 361: Fluid Mechanics.

Biomolecular engineering track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 411: BioMEMS and Biomedical Microdevices, 434, 435: Biomaterial-Tissue Interactions, 422: Engineering and Biophysical Approaches to Cancer, 463: Immunoengineering, 464: Tissue Engineering, 465: Dynamical Systems in Biology, 466: Engineering of Drug Delivery, 467: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling, BENG 468: Topics in Immunoengineering, BENG 469: Single-Cell Biology, Technologies, and Analysis; MENG 361; MB&B 300: Principles of Biochemistry.

Systems Biology track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 411, 434, 435, 422, 463, 464, 465: Dynamical Systems in Biology, 466, 467: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling, BENG 468, BENG 469; MENG 361; MB&B 300.

Note: One substitution may be permitted with DUS approval.

For students that enter Yale with the equivalent of one year of calculus in high school, a typical B.S. in Biomedical Engineering degree curriculum might include the following engineering specific courses in partial fulfillment of the thirty-six courses and distributional requirements of Yale College:

 

Bioimaging track electives – BENG 404: Medical Device Design, 406: Medical Software Design, 410: Physical and Chemical Basis of Bioimaging and Biosensing, 436: Biophotonics & Optical Microscopy, 444: Medical Imaging, 445: Biomedical Image Processing & Analysis, BENG 449: Biomedical Data Analysis, 475: Computational Vision, 476: Advanced Computational Vision, 485: Neuroimaging.

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 434: Biomaterials, 453: Continuum Biomechanics, 455: Vascular Mechanics, 456: Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, 457: Biomechanics, 458: Multiscale Models of Biomechanical Systems; 459; Neuromuscular Biomechanics, MENG 185: Mechanical Design, 280: Strength and Deformation, 361: Fluid Mechanics.

Biomolecular engineering track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 411: BioMEMS and Biomedical Microdevices, 434, 435: Biomaterial-Tissue Interactions, 422: Engineering and Biophysical Approaches to Cancer, 463: Immunoengineering, 464: Tissue Engineering, 465: Dynamical Systems in Biology, 466: Engineering of Drug Delivery, 467: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling, BENG 468: Topics in Immunoengineering, BENG 469: Single-Cell Biology, Technologies, and Analysis; MENG 361; MB&B 300: Principles of Biochemistry.

Systems Biology track electives – BENG 404, 406, 410, 411, 434, 435, 422, 463, 464, 465: Dynamical Systems in Biology, 466, 467: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling, BENG 468, BENG 469; MENG 361; MB&B 300.

Note: One substitution may be permitted with DUS approval.

• Candidates must satisfy the Yale College requirements for the B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering.
• In fulfilling these requirements, students must complete eight graduate courses from the approved list, up to two of which may, with the permission of the director of undergraduate studies and the director of graduate studies, also be applied toward completion of the B.S. degree. Since the student will be taking BEng 473 Special Projects, at most one of these courses may be ENAS 990 Special Investigations.
• Graduate work must not be entirely concentrated in the final two terms of study, and students must take at least six term courses outside biomedical engineering during their last four terms at Yale, and must take at least two of those six courses during their last two terms.
• Students must apply for admission to this program through the director of undergraduate studies no later than the last day of their fifth term in Yale College. Applicants must have achieved A, A–, or Honors grades in at least two-thirds of their course credits as well as in at least three-fourths of all course credits that directly relate to Biomedical Engineering. See the official regulations for what goes into an application proposal. Application proposals should be submitted to the DUS by email.

Interested students are advised to consult the director of undergraduate studies and the director of graduate studies by the start of their junior year.