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Bioengineering Curriculum

Approved Bioengineering Topics Courses

Course # Course title (units) Prerequisites
BioE 22/22L Biotechnology (3)/ Biotechnology Lab (2)
Must take lecture and lab concurrently (5 units total)
BioE 101 Instrumentation in Biology and Medicine (4)
EE100, Math 53, 54, Physics 7A, 7B, consent of instructor
BioE 102 Biomechanics (4)
Math 53, 54, Physics 7A; programming experience; biology or anatomy is not assumed
BioE 104 Biological Transport Phenomena (4)
Math 53-54; Physics 7A
BioE C105B Thermodynamics and Biothermodynamics (3) Chem 1a, Math 53, Physics 7A, E77, or equivalent
BioE 110 Biomedical Physiology for Engineers (4)
BioE 10 or Bio 1A; Math 54 (concurrent OK)
BioE 111 Functional Biomaterials Development and Characterization (4)
Chemistry 1A or 4A, Biology 1A & 1A Lab, MCB C100A/Chem C130 or MCB 102
BioE 112 Molecular Cell Biomechanics (4)
Mathematics 54, Physics 7A, 102
BioE 113 Stem Cell and Technologies (4) BioE 10 and Biology 1A or consent of instructor
BioE 115 Cell Biology Laboratory for Engineers (4)
Chem C130/MCB 100A or equivalent recommended
BioE 116 Cell and Tissue Engineering (4)
BioE 102, Chem C130/MCB C100A or equivalent; or consent of instructor
BioE C117 Structural Aspects of Biomaterials (4)
Bio1A, E45, BioE102, CE130
BioE C118 Biological Performance of Materials (4)
MCB 102, 130 (recommended), E45, 115, or equivalent
BioE C119 Orthopedic Biomechanics (4)
CE130
BioE 121 Introduction to Micro and Nanobiotechnolgy: BioMEMs (3)
Chem 3B, Physics 7B or consent of instructor
BioE 121L BioMems and BioNanotechnology Laboratory (4)
BioE121, Chem 130A, EE143, MechE106, or ChemE150A
BioE C125 Introduction to Robotics (4)
EE120 or equivalent, and consent of instructor
BioE 131 Introduction to Computational Molecular and Cell Biology (4) Bio1A, Math 53, 52, and either E77, CS61A, or CS61B; or consent of instructor
BioE 135 Frontiers in Microbial Systems Biology (4) Upperdivision standing wtih background in differential equations and probability. Coursework in mcb or biochemistry recommended
BioE C136L Laboratory in the Mechanics of Organisms (3) No prereqs for Bioengineering students.

135 may be taken concurrently or consent of instructor; for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students, Electrical Engineering 105, 120 or Computer Science 184.
BioE 140L Synthetic Biology Lab (4) MCB, Basic chemistry and biochemistry, Differential equations or consent of instructor
BioE C141 Statistics for Bioinformatics (4)
CS9C or 9E or E77 or equivalent; Math 53, 54
BioE 142 Programming and Algorithm Design for Computational Biology Applications (4)
Math 54, MCB102, E77 or CS61A, or CS61 B or consent of instructor
BioE 143 Computational Methods in Biology (4)
Math 53, 53, programming experience preferred but not required
BioE C144 Introduction to Protein Informatics (4)
MCB 100 or 102
BioE C144L Protein Informatics Lab (2) BioE C144 (can be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor
BioE C145L Introductory Electronic Transducers Laboratory (3)
EE40
BioE C145M Introductory Microcomputer Interfacing Laboratory (3)
EE40, CS61B or a working knowledge of ANSI C programming or consent of instructor
BioE C146 Topics in Computational Biology and Genomics (4)
BioE142, CS61A, or equivalent ability to write programs in Java, Perl, C, or C++; MCB 100, 102, or equivalent; or consent of instructor
BioE 150 Introduction of Bionanoscience and Bionanotechnology (4) Bio 1A and Chem 1A
BioE 151 Micro/Nanofluidics for Bioengineering and Lab-On-A-Chip (4) Chemistry 3B, Physics 7B, BioE 102 or ME 106 or consent of instructor.
BioE 164 Optics and Microscopy (4)
Physics 7A-7B-7C, or 8A-8B or equivalent introductory physics course
BioE C165 Image Processing and Reconstruction Tomography (4)
EE120, basic programming abiliy in C or FORTRAN
BioE 168L Practical Light Microscopy (3)
None
BioE 190A-H**
Advanced Topics in Bioengineering (1-4)

** course must be 3 units or more
 

 

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