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BREAK THE IMPROVE HEALTH • confidence; foundation for innovation • uncertain within highly variable, environments; • readily identifies and applies engineering principles to biological systems; • engage your community at the interface of the physical and life sciences as it relates to the human condition. The BME major prepares you to bridge the engineering and medical fields, resulting in highly-flexible career prospects with opportunities in manufacturing, • understanding biology across length and time scales with a focus on human health; approachto elop aquantitative from traditional programs in biology, from traditional programs in biology, distinct while the focus on human health is that from other programs in engineering (e.g. include the study of biological systems and biological, environmental, chemical biomolecular engineering). Additionally, its focus on multiscale analysis of biological systems is a unique signature of Cornell to Biomedical Engineering relative programs at peer institutions. As a BME student you will:
Engineering Engineering Systems l Transport B Structural Electrical & Chemical Physiology Molecular Principles of Biomedical Biomedical Instrumentation & T Biomedical Engineering Analysis of Metabolic & & Application in Medicine Biomedical Signals & Systems Cellular Principles of Biomedical Engineering Physiology of Human Health Dev Statics & Mechanics of Solids Biomolecular Thermodynamics Biomaterials: Foundations & Uncertainty Analysis in Uncertainty Investigative Biology Laboratory Phenomena Introductory Biology: Cell & Biomedical Engineering Design I and II Biomedica
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BME 4080 + BME 4010 BME 2310 BME 3010 BME 2110 BME 2000/ BIOG 1500 BME 2210 or CEE 3040 BME REQUIRED COURSES BIOMG 1350 BTRY 3010 If you have an interest in engineering problems related to issues of human health to issues of problems related in engineering an interest If you have a burgeoning field worth biomedical engineering (BME) is and performance, BME bridges the engineering interdisciplinary endeavor, An integrated, considering. biomedical-related industries to meet the 21st-century needs of and medical fields and engineers discover devices and pharmaceuticals. Biomedical focused on medical array of problems in medicine. principles and methods to a wide apply engineering of disease. They also design determine the biological origins They diagnose and implants, artificial organs, living materials, prostheses, surgical biocompatible and to augment the healing technologies and regenerative systems, controlled drug-delivery process. of Biomedical Engineering is to B.S. program at the Meinig School The mission of the practice of design, train students in the fabrication, and analysis of biomedical systems, devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics for issues related to human biomedical health. Specifically, our vision for engineering focuses on a quantitative across approach to understanding biology levels scales—from nanoscale and molecular nature to the whole body. The quantitative of our program distinguishes the major Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig E. and Peter Nancy School of Biomedical Engineering PROGRAM DEGREE UNDERGRADUATE BME 2010 BME 4090 ENGRD 2020 ENGRD 2202 BME 3020 BME 3030 BME 4020 SOME AREAS OF BME at universities, hospitals, government RESEARCH regulatory agencies and law firms, as well BME ELECTIVE COURSE SAMPLER as the research facilities of companies Molecular, Cellular & Tissue Engineering bioactive materials and educational and medical institutions. design Many graduates continue their studies BME 5830 Cell-Biomaterials Interactions in biomedical engineering in Masters BME 5850 Current Practices in body-on-a-chip of Engineering (M.Eng.) or Doctoral Tissue Engineering cellular imaging programs in a specific biomedical CHEME 5430 Bioprocess Engineering engineering concentration. A biomedical Biomedical Materials & Drug Delivery living tissue engineering major is also excellent BEE 3650 Properties of Biological engineering preparation for entry into graduate study Materials in medicine. MSE 5620 Biomineralization micro- and nano- biotechnology Opened in 2008, Weill Hall is the home Biomedical Imaging & Instrumentation of the Meinig School of Biomedical AEP 3300 Modern Experimental Optics multi-scale systems Engineering at Cornell. This $162-million BEE 4590 Biosensons & Bioanalytical modeling facility brings together Cornell’s top Techniques ranked programs in the life sciences, ECE 4910 Principles of Neurophysiology physics of cancer providing an avenue for building research Biomedical Mechanics & Mechanobiology connections across departments as well as MAE 4680 Biofluid Mechanics across campuses, thanks to the extensive MSE 5130 Mechanobiology of Materials & teleconferencing facilities designed to Cells strengthen our connections with Weill BME 5810 Soft Tissue Biomechanics Cornell Medical College, our medical school located in New York City. Cornell’s Veterinary College offers students a local opportunity to connect veterinary medicine and engineering. As a BME major you will be part of a diverse community of life-long learners who are innovation confident, collaborative across disciplines, and community engaged. You will learn to be an intellectual and technical leader, ready to break the rules to advance human medicine and improve human health. MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEGREE PROGRAM Cornell’s M.Eng. degree is a one-year program that builds on your undergraduate foundation, expanding your knowledge and enhancing your career options. The focus of an M.Eng. degree is on engineering practice and design; that is, putting engineering knowledge to work developing new tools to address real-word problems in health science, learning both how to engineer solutions to health science challenges as well as what to engineer in terms of a product’s market viability. Our M.Eng. programs accomplish this through a combination of courses and a design project that ensure each student has broad knowledge as well as focused expertise in a particular area.
BME By the Numbers BME undergraduate students 132 BME graduate students (M.Eng. only) 77 The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the 2018 median pay as $88,550.
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