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Undergraduate Offerings
Choose from Three Specializations
The Biomedical Engineering Program at Marquette offers a strong undergraduate education. There are three tracks in the Biomedical Engineering curriculum:
All undergraduate tracks in Biomedical Engineering are compatible with other programs offered by the College of Engineering. Each track contains the requisite humanities courses, and requires 134 credit hours for graduation. Students automatically earn a minor in biology, and can earn an optional minor in areas such as mathematics, electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering. In addition, all tracks retain most of the core courses of the initial year, which allows the student flexibility to transfer to other curricula if so desired.
Biomedical Engineering Program Objectives
Regardless of specialization, all biomedical engineering programs seek to provide an educational program that will prepare graduates to:
- Participate as a technical contributor and member of a design and/or development team.
- Communicate effectively with individuals and teams with a wide variety of backgrounds.
- Pursue professional or graduate degrees or employment in the biomedical industry.
- Understand the legal, ethical, economic and regulatory requirements of medical device design and biomedical engineering research.
- Define, solve and implement solutions to a problem.
- Progress in developing leadership skills.
- Identify limitations in their own knowledge base and skills and engage in life long learning.
The Biomedical Engineering curriculum is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating courses in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering.
A solid foundation in the mathematical, physical, and life sciences is necessary for the engineer to function effectively in a medically or biologically oriented problem-solving environment.
Biomedical engineers must communicate with life scientists, physicians and other health care providers to describe and model complex biological systems, to collect and analyze experimental or clinical data, to understand the capabilities and limitations of sophisticated instrumentation, and to understand the principles of design.
Five Year B.S./M.S. Program
This program allows qualified students to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering in just five years. Students with qualifying grade point averages enroll in the program during their Junior year. They will begin their thesis research the summer between their Junior and Senior years. Their research laboratory experience will continue during the summer between their Senior and fifth years and throughout their fifth year, culminating in the preparation of a written thesis and defense.
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