Minor in Biomedical Engineering

The Biomedical Engineering Minor (BME) program requires a total of seven subjects selected from a series of categories as outlined below.

Programming and Computational Modeling Core
6.100A	Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python	6
6.100B	Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science	6
Mathematics Core
Choose 12 units each from two of the following options: ¹		24
Option A
18.03	Differential Equations
Option B
18.06	Linear Algebra
Option C
1.010A & 1.010B	Probability: Concepts and Applications and Causal Inference for Data Analysis
6.3700	Introduction to Probability
9.07	Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science
18.600	Probability and Random Variables
Human Physiology Core
Select one of the following:		12
6.4820[J]	Quantitative and Clinical Physiology
7.20[J]	Human Physiology ²
9.01	Introduction to Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering and Applications
Select at least three of the following: ^{3, 4}		30-36
1.063	Fluids and Diseases
1.088	Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease
1.089	Environmental Microbial Biogeochemistry
2.180	Biomolecular Feedback Systems
2.184	Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement
2.74	Bio-inspired Robotics
2.750[J]	Medical Device Design ²
3.052	Nanomechanics of Materials and Biomaterials ²
3.054	Cellular Solids: Structure, Properties, Applications ²
3.055[J]	Biomaterials Science and Engineering ²
3.056[J]	Materials Physics of Neural Interfaces
6.4800[J]	Biomedical Imaging with MRI: From Technology to Computation Applications
6.4810[J]	Cellular Neurophysiology and Computing
6.4820[J]	Quantitative and Clinical Physiology
6.4900	Introduction to EECS via Medical Technology
6.8701[J]	Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution
6.8711[J]	Computational Systems Biology: Deep Learning in the Life Sciences
7.33[J]	Evolutionary Biology: Concepts, Models and Computation
9.17	Systems Neuroscience Laboratory ²
9.24	Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System ²
9.26[J]	Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience ²
9.35	Perception
9.40	Introduction to Neural Computation ²
10.213	Chemical and Biological Engineering Thermodynamics
10.28	Chemical-Biological Engineering Laboratory
10.380[J]	Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
10.424	Pharmaceutical Engineering
10.443	Future Medicine: Drug Delivery, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics ²
10.495	Molecular Design and Bioprocess Development of Immunotherapies ²
16.400	Human Systems Engineering
20.110[J]	Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems
20.205[J]	Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience
20.230[J]	Immunology
20.260	Computational Analysis of Biological Data
20.305[J]	Principles of Synthetic Biology
20.309[J]	Instrumentation and Measurement for Biological Systems
20.310[J]	Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics ²
20.330[J]	Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems
20.BME	Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Engineering
Total Units		78-84

A maximum of four subjects taken for the biomedical engineering minor can also count toward a major or another minor.

¹	Contact a minor advisor for additional 6–12 unit subjects that satisfy the requirement.
²	Subject has prerequisites that are outside of the program.
³	At least one of the subjects must be taken outside the student's major. See the BME Minor website for potential substitutions.
⁴	Approved biomedical engineering UROPs with sufficient medical focus carried out by students with junior or senior standing with prior approval may be substituted for up to 12 units.

Students should consult with their departmental BME minor advisor, preferably in sophomore year and no later than Add Date of spring term junior year, to choose a course of study, which must be approved in advance by the BME minor advisor. For the list of BME minor advisors and other information, please visit the Biological Engineering website or contact the BE Academic Office, Room 16-267, 617-253-1712.