Creativity, Research, Design: Characteristics of Tulane's Undergraduate BME Program
Tulane's Department of Biomedical Engineering is one of the original BMEN departments in the United States (founded in 1977), and has been accredited continuously since 1981. There are many distinctive features to our curriculum that make us one of the strongest departments in the nation. We have a philosophy of 'rigorous breadth' in this curriculum.
Distinctive features of Tulane's BMEN undergraduate curriculum:
- One full year of Anatomy and Physiology. In the first semester of the junior year, all students take a Human Anatomy course with a Gross Anatomy laboratory followed by a Quantitative Physiology course and lab in the second semester.
- Two and one-half years of Mathematics, culminating in the course "Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems"
- Junior-level "domain" courses in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Biomechanics and Biotransport, Biosignals and Bioimaging, and Biomedical Design. Each student is required to complete two domain courses with a follow-up graduate-level course.
- Each student participates in an in-depth one-year group design project to develop innovative devices to solve biomedical health challenges.
- Each student participates in a one-year individual research or design project with required thesis, where they either conduct independent research in a laboratory or test their design.
- Students are eligible to apply to our 4+1 MS program. This program allows students to complete a masters degree in one year following graduation.
