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BIOE
74 courses with the subject BIOE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BIOE 1990Elective1-4
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 1252 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 1342 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 211M with a minimum grade of D- ); (PHYS 1151 with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 261M with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1161 with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1171 with a minimum grade of D- )
BIOE 2355Quantitative Physiology for Bioengineers4
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 1252 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 2341 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- ); (CHEM 1151 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 233M with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1161 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1211 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1217 with a minimum grade of D- ); (PHYS 1155 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1165 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1175 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1147 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- )
BIOE 2365Bioengineering Measurement, Experimentation, and Statistics4
Prerequisite(s): (BIOL 1107 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or BIOL 1111 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or BIOL 1115 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 1242 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 1252 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 1342 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 211M (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- ); (ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C )Corequisite(s): BIOE 2366Attribute(s): NUpath Analyzing/Using Data, NUpath Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 2321 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 316M with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- ); (PHYS 1155 with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1165 with a minimum grade of D- or PHYS 1175 with a minimum grade of D- )
Prerequisite(s): BIOE 2350 with a minimum grade of D- ; BIOE 2355 with a minimum grade of D- ; (MATH 2321 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 316M with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- )
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 2321 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 316M with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- ); BIOE 2355 with a minimum grade of D-
Focuses on in-depth project in which a student conducts research or produces a product related to the student’s major field. Combined with Junior/Senior Project 2 or college-defined equivalent for 8-credit honors project. May be repeated without limit.
Offers theoretical or experimental work under the direction of members of the department under a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor. May be repeated without limit.
Focuses on topics of timely interest to students of science and engineering. Topic varies from semester to semester. When appropriate, the course takes advantage of unique opportunities afforded by visiting faculty and guests. May be repeated once.
Offers students an opportunity to enhance mathematical proficiency in preparation for more advanced courses in engineering. Focuses on key topics such as algebra, calculus, linear algebra, and ordinary and partial differential equations.
BIOE 5091Foundational Applied Mathematics for Bioengineers2
Covers and emphasizes practical applications of linear algebra and differential equations in the field of bioengineering. Explores analytical and numerical solution methods for solving differential equations and applies signal processing techniques for biomedical applications.
Prerequisite(s): BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- (Graduate) or EECE 2520 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D-
BIOE 5250Regulatory and Quality Aspects of Medical Device Design4
Covers engineering design challenges intrinsic to the development of biomedical devices, including clinical evaluation, manufacture, and testing of medical devices and the constraints that FDA regulations place on these processes. Topics include quality systems, design control, cybersecurity concerns, the role of standards in global device regulation, and the design process. Students are asked to form teams and to carry out a semester-long conceptual design project to develop a design overview, design plan, design input specifications, and verification test procedures for a novel medical device.
Prerequisite(s): ((BIOL 1111 with a minimum grade of D- or BIOL 1115 with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 1342 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 211M with a minimum grade of D- )) or graduate program admission
Examines the fundamentals of molecular structure and function within cellular systems, and studies how to build tools based on those fundamental principles for manipulating or analyzing biological systems. Covers a range of topics including chemical structure of biological macromolecules; central dogma; tools to synthesize, perturb, and analyze biological macromolecules; as well as more applied topics including gene therapies and vaccine development. Emphasizes design principles of molecular bioengineering, developing familiarity with publicly available molecular biology software and databases, as well as science communication.
Prerequisite(s): (BIOE 3380 with a minimum grade of D- ; (BIOE 2350 with a minimum grade of D- or ME 2355 with a minimum grade of D- )) or graduate program admission
Prerequisite(s): BIOE 5420 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- or BIOE 5420 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or BIOE 5430 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- or BIOE 5430 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D-
Focuses on the translation and commercialization of bioengineering products and technology. Offers students an opportunity to gain essential entrepreneurship skills through studying and exercising the key elements and processes in establishing and launching a biotechnology startup. Examines how to assess bioengineering product and technology opportunities, evaluate the technology’s market potential, navigate the landscape of intellectual property protection and FDA regulation for bioengineering products, form a biotechnology startup company, write a business plan, and pitch startups to prospective investors. Covers fundamentals of engineering economics.
Prerequisite(s): (BIOE 3310 with a minimum grade of D- or ME 3475 with a minimum grade of D- or ME 3480 with a minimum grade of D- ) or graduate program admission
Identifies and reviews the fundamental conservation principles that govern structural mechanics and fluid dynamics in biological systems. Discusses the following numerical analysis techniques: parameter estimation, finite difference, numerical integration, and finite element methods. By combining conservation laws with numerical analyses techniques, develops approaches to describe the physiological function of various biological systems, allowing for a system of equations to be used to describe a biological problem and solve this system numerically to predict its behavior.
Prerequisite(s): BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- (Graduate) or EECE 2520 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D-
Prerequisite(s): (BIOE 2355 with a minimum grade of D- ; (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- )) or graduate program admission
BIOE 5740Intermediate Computing Skills for Bioengineers4
Offers students an opportunity to boost their overall capability using computing systems, training them with a comprehensive set of skills ranging from simple scripting to writing modular, portable, and maintainable code bases with up-to-date software engineering best practices such as version control, unit testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and license auditing.
BIOE 5750Modeling and Inference in Bioengineering4
Prerequisite(s): (((MATH 2321 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 316M with a minimum grade of D- ); (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- )); (BIOE 2365 with a minimum grade of D- or (CHME 3315 with a minimum grade of D- ; CHME 4315 with a minimum grade of D- ))) or graduate program admission
BIOE 5760Method and Logic in Systems Biology and Bioengineering4
Emphasizes difficulties that lie at the interface of theory and experiment in bioengineering and systems biology. Covers stem cell engineering, directed differentiation, engineering biological circuits, cooperativity, robust adaptation, kinetic proofreading, signal transduction and information processing in biological systems, network analysis, dynamical systems, and biological design principles. This course is based on reading and discussing primary literature that exemplifies approaches that have revealed new concepts and principles governing biological systems. Each week, students read and discuss two important papers. The instructor provides relevant background and frames the examined papers in the context of the field and their time period as the basis for class discussion.
Prerequisite(s): (BIOE 3210 with a minimum grade of D- ; BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- ) or BIOE 5800 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- (Graduate)
Prerequisite(s): (CHEM 1151 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 233M with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1161 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1211 with a minimum grade of D- or CHEM 1217 with a minimum grade of D- ) or graduate program admission
Prerequisite(s): (BIOE 5820 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or CHME 5631 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- ) or (BIOE 5820 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- or CHME 5631 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- )
BIOE 5860Engineering Approaches to Precision Medicine I4
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 2341 with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 315M with a minimum grade of D- or MATH 2331 with a minimum grade of D- ) or graduate program admission
Covers the fundamentals of bioengineering research topics and methodology for master’s-level bioengineering students. Internal and external speakers discuss general topics in bioengineering, including the medical device qualification and regulatory environment, tissue engineering, cell engineering, mechanobiology, drug delivery, bioimaging, neuromotor control, and effective design of experiments. Each student is expected to read, critically evaluate, and present research in a peer-reviewed bioengineering journal article.
Designed to provide bioengineering students with a working knowledge of the integrated behavior of organs and systems in the human body. As such, the student is provided with a comprehensive and intense immersion in each physiological subsystem with the expectation that he or she display knowledge of each at the level equivalent to that of a second-year medical student following his or her exposure to physiology. The specific subsystems covered are muscle physiology, cardiovascular physiology with ECG interpretation, pulmonary physiology with gas exchange mechanics and ventilation/perfusion, renal physiology and water balance, regulation of pH, gastrointestinal physiology, temperature regulation and energy balance, endocrine systems, and reproductive systems. The course does not cover neurophysiology.
Offers an overview of quantitative techniques that students will encounter in their research, providing a language and a foundation for more specialized study. Introduces basic concepts from linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, transforms, function approximation, probability, statistics, and numerical computation, illustrated by applications in biology and medicine.
Designed to introduce new graduate bioengineering students to the fundamentals of bioengineering research topics and methodology. Includes outside speakers to discuss general topics in bioengineering. Examples of course topics include the medical device qualification and regulatory environment, tissue engineering, cell engineering, mechanobiology, drug delivery, bioimaging, neuromotor control, effective design of experiments, writing research proposals for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and how to evaluate and write a peer-reviewed journal article, etc. Expects students to read, critically evaluate, and present the research in a bioengineering journal article. Students are then expected to extend their article into a hypothesis-driven proposal in NIH format with an oral defense of the proposal.
BIOE 7210A Data Science Toolkit for Human Neuroscience Research4
Introduces fundamental programming, statistics, and machine learning methods that underlie modern human neuroscience research. Emphasizes understanding how linear models form the building blocks for a wide range of commonly used methods, as well as application of these methods through standard scientific computing libraries. With hands-on learning, students use R and Python to work through projects tailored to real-world neuroimaging applications (e.g., fMRI, EEG). Applies basic statistical and machine learning analysis procedures for human neuroscience research with R and Python to understand fundamental considerations underlying their application.
Offers students an opportunity to practice clear and concise oral communication of research to an audience of people with a variety of skills and differing expertise. This is an essential skill for anyone seeking a career in scientific research and beyond. It differs from communicating research to a group meeting or a conference presentation, which is comprised of audiences of fellow specialists who are already familiar with the field and its specialized terminology. Students instead present to a diverse, interdisciplinary group of peers (i.e., the Department of Bioengineering and other members of the Northeastern community). Maybe be repeated once.
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor. May be repeated twice for up to 12 semester hours.
Subject
BIOE
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
4
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course
Repeatable
May be repeated twice for up to 12 semester hours.
Offers students an opportunity to prepare for the PhD qualifying exam under faculty supervision. Intended for students who have completed all required PhD course work and have not yet achieved PhD candidacy; students who have not completed all required PhD course work are not allowed to register for this course. May be repeated once.