33 courses with the subject BME, 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.
Effective Date 12/02/2024 Student led special topic courses which vary by semester
Effective Date 02/01/2025 Provides students with the skills necessary to engage in meaningful engineering design, and focuses on the latter stages of the engineering design process - detailed design, prototyping, and evaluation. Students develop skills in computer assisted design, embedded controls, prototyping, analysis and teamwork. A major focus of the class is the execution of a design project.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 You will learn how excitable tissue, nerves and muscle, and the cardiovascular and respiratory systems function. You will develop an understanding of mechanisms, with an introduction to structure, an emphasis on quantitative analysis, and integration of hormonal and neural regulation and control.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces the physiology of the kidney, salt and water balance, gastrointestinal system, endocrine system, and central nervous system, with reference to diseases and their pathophysiology.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Intro to fundamentals of cell structure and function, emphasizing the techniques and technologies available for the study of cell biology. Content includes cell structure and function; energy flow in cells; information flow in cells focuses on modern molecular biology and genetic engineering, and includes DNA replication, the cell cycle, gene expression, gene regulation, and protein synthesis.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces principles of continuum mechanics of biological tissues & systems. 1) Review results used in biomechanics field, 2) properties of living tissue; 3) mechanical basis & effects of pathology & trauma: 4) intro to mechanotransduction, circulatory transport, growth & remodeling & tissue-engineered materials; 5) low Reynolds number flows in vivo & microsystems.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Discover how computation drives innovation in human health. Learn programming, numerical methods & AI tools to analyze and model real biomedical data. Work in teams to generate solutions for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, lung disease & infectious disease while developing communication & project management skills. Gain practical, employable computational tools used across biotech, pharma, research & medicine. Prereq: CS 111X. Co-reqs: APMA 2120 or MATH 2310/2315 or instructor permission. Requisites Completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 or place out of CS 1110, AND completed or be currently enrolled in APMA 2120 or MATH 2310 or MATH 2315
Effective Date 05/01/2023 Project-driven course focusing on biomedical product design with emphasis on marketability, innovation, entrepreneurship and business. Topics include design fundamentals, problem/needs identification, delineation of realistic constraints and product specifications, intellectual property, market analysis, entrepreneurship, specific advanced design, business plan development, venture funding, and medical product testing methods.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 The focus for the course will be establishing a regulatory mindset for students to engage with the Food & Drug Administration, primarily the Center for Medical Devices and Radiological Health. The material covered throughout the semester is presented in a series of lectures, design prompts, exercises, workshops, and reviews. Students will develop their own project(s) and work as individuals and in small groups/teams. Prereq: BME 2000 and BME 2101 Requisites Student must have completed BME 2000 and BME 2101
Effective Date 08/02/2026 A year-long integrative course to formulate and solve problems in biomedical systems, including experimental design, performance and analysis. Testing in tissues/cells & manipulation of molecular constituents to determine structural and functional characteristics for design of therapeutic or measurement systems. Methods incl biochemical, physiological, cell biology, mechanical, electrical and computer, systems, chemical, imaging, and other approaches. Prereq: 3rd & 4th Year BME Requisites
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Second part of a year-long course integrating concepts and skills from prior courses to formulate and solve problems in biomedical systems, including experimental design, performance and analysis.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces principles and application of fluid and mass transport processes in cell, tissue and organ systems. Topics include intro to physiological fluid mechanics in the circulation and tissue, fundamentals of mass transport in biological systems, effects of mass transport and biochemical interactions at the cell and tissue scales and fluid and mass transport in organs.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Presents analytical tools used to model signals & linear systems. BME examples include multicompartment modeling of drug delivery, modeling of dynamic biomechanical systems & electrical circuit models of excitable cells. Topics: signals & systems, convolution, continuous time Fourier transforms, electrical circuits & applications of linear system theory.
Effective Date 05/01/2023 An introductory course to neural networks research, specifically biologically-based networks that reproduce cognitive phenomena. The goal of this course is to teach the basic thinking and methodologies used in constructing and understanding neural-like networks. Cross-listed as NESC 5330. 3rd or 4th year standing; or permission of the instructor. Requisites 3rd or 4th Year Engineering student
Effective Date 05/01/2023 A year-long design project required for BME majors. Students select, formulate, and solve a design problem related to a device or a system. Projects use conceptual design, skills obtained in the integrated lab and substantial literature and patent reviews. Projects are sponsored by faculty, physicians and/or companies. Students may work on their own with outside team members when appropriate or with other students in integrative teams.
Effective Date 05/01/2023 Second half of a year-long design project required for BME majors. Students select, formulate, & solve a design problem related to a device or a system. Projects use conceptual design, skills obtained in the integrated lab & substantial literature and patent reviews. Projects are sponsored by faculty, physicians and/or companies. Students may work on their own with outside team members when appropriate or with other students in integrative teams.
Effective Date 05/01/2023 Focuses on the study of forces (and their effects) that act on the musculoskeletal structures of the human body. Based on the foundations of functional anatomy and engineering mechanics (rigid body and deformable approaches); students are exposed to clinical problems in orthopedics and rehabilitation.
Effective Date 04/04/2023 How does a single fertilized egg grow and divide into every cell in the body, from branching neurons to beating cardiomyocytes and everything in between? Can we harness this knowledge to better understand disease, and to produce therapeutically relevant cell types, tissues, and organs? You will explore what controls stem cell differentiation using hands-on experiments, with emphasis on methods to engineer cell fate for regenerative medicine.
Effective Date 12/09/2024 This course introduces techniques for constructing mathematical and computational models of biological processes. We utilize experimental data to validate those models at many levels of organizational scale – from genome to whole-tissue.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces genomics and bioinformatics theory and tools to analyze large scale biological data. Specific topics covered are Introduction to Linux and R statistical programming language, computations on the high-performance computational cluster, analysis of sequencing data with applications in gene expression and protein/DNA interactions, differential expression analysis, pathway and co-expression network analysis. Prereq: (APMA 3110 or APMA 3100 or MATH 3100) and (CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 with grade of C- or better or successfully completed CS 1110 place-out test) and BME major or minor Requisites Must have completed (APMA 3110 or APMA 3100 or MATH 3100) AND (CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 with a grade of C- or better or successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test) AND BME Major or Minor
Effective Date 01/11/2023 Intro to systems-level measurement techniques for capturing molecular information and the mathematical and computational methods for harnessing the information from these measurements to improve our understanding of cell physiology and disease. Practical implementation of the concepts in MATLAB or Python will be applied to existing, real data from published journal articles.
Effective Date 10/21/2021 This course will provide students with a quantitative framework for identifying and addressing important biological questions at the molecular, cell, and tissue levels. The course will focus on the interplay between methods and logic, with an emphasis on the themes that emerge repeatedly in quantitative experiments.
Effective Date 04/04/2023 “We will explore engineering methods to use “”microbes as tools”” for human wellbeing, to understand and combat “”microbes as enemies”” in infectious disease, and to characterize and manipulate “”microbes as partners”” in human health and wellbeing. We will learn how facets of BME are used to test hypotheses of human/microbe relationships and to design strategies to understand and treat disease and improve human wellbeing.
Effective Date 04/07/2023 We will learn to bridge the gap between the fields of bioengineering and the science of how drugs interact with biological systems, i.e., Pharmacology, including the principles of biochemical reaction kinetics and engineering; how such principles can help us describe, model, predict and modulate the outcome of biochemical reactions in cells and biological reactors, and apply these principles to the understanding of pharmacological phenomena.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces biomaterials science and biological interactions with materials with overview of biomaterials testing (in vitro and in vivo) and characterization. Emphasis on emerging novel strategies and design of biomaterials. Areas of concentration include polymers and ceramics in biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering (orthopaedic and vascular) and nanotechnology.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces the fundamental principles of tissue engineering. Topics: tissue organization and dynamics, cell and tissue characterization, cell-matrix interactions, transport processes in engineered tissues, biomaterials and biological interfaces, stem cells and interacting cell fate processes and tissue engineering methods. Examples of approaches for regeneration of cartilage, bone, ligament, tendons, skin and liver are presented.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Applies engineering science, design methods, and system analysis to developing areas and current problems in biomedical engineering. Topics vary by semester. Recent topics include Medical Imaging Systems Theory, BME Advanced Design, BME Electronics Lab, and Systems Biology Modeling and Experimentation.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Studies the biophysical mechanisms governing production and transmission of bioelectric signals, measurement of these signals and their analysis in basic and clinical electrophysiology. Introduces the principles of design and operation of therapeutic medical devices used in the cardiovascular and nervous systems.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 An overview of modern medical imaging modalities with regard to the physical basis of image acquisition and methods of image reconstruction. Topics cover the basic engineering and physical principles underlying the major medical imaging modalities: x-ray (plain film, mammography, CT), nuclear medicine (PET) and (SPECT), ultrasound, and MRI.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Provides a grounding in molecular biology and a working knowledge of recombinant DNA technology, thus establishing a basis for the evaluation and application of genetic engineering in whole animal systems. Beginning with the basic principles of genetics, this course examines the use of molecular methods to study gene expression, deliver viral and non-viral vectors, and its critical role in health.
Effective Date 01/01/2024 Students will design treatment strategies for cancer and cardiovascular disease based on molecular bioengineering principles. Special topics will include design of nanoparticle drug and gene delivery platforms, materials biocompatibility, cancer immunotherapy, and molecular imaging.
Effective Date 08/01/2009 In-depth study of a biomedical engineering area by an individual student in close collaboration with a departmental faculty member. Requires advanced analysis of a specialized topic in biomedical engineering that is not covered by current offerings. Requires faculty contact time and assignments comparable to regular course offerings.
Effective Date 08/01/2009 A year-long research project in biomedical engineering conducted in consultation with a department faculty advisor; usually related to ongoing faculty research. Includes the design, execution, and analysis of experimental laboratory work and computational or theoretical computer analysis of a problem. Requires a comprehensive report of the results.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
