- Department of Bioengineering
The bioengineering curriculum builds upon the base provided by the Watson School's freshman-year engineering program. This first-year core provides students with a broad foundation in engineering fundamentals, natural sciences and mathematics. Depth in bioengineering is next obtained through a series of required courses. Free electives may then be used by students to customize their undergraduate experience to obtain greater breadth in engineering or specialization within bioengineering.
The curriculum begins with the common first-year curriculum of mathematics and the natural sciences required of all Watson School students and includes an introduction to the various fields of engineering in WTSN 111-112, including bioengineering. The fundamentals of bioengineering are then presented through a sequence of six core technical courses that are integrated with a sequence of six professional skills courses. The program takes the student from systems with simple emergent properties, such as form, up to much more complex emergent properties, such as intelligence, while at the same time honing the student's abilities in leadership, problem solving, decision making, teamwork, writing and oral presentation.
Elective courses provide the student with the opportunity to customize his/her education to include additional exposure to other fields of engineering or to pursue specific bioengineering topics in greater depth.
A two-semester, senior-level design course sequence provides a capstone experience in which the student is given the opportunity to apply the knowledge and techniques acquired in the program to the solution of a real-world problem.
Your specific curriculum toward a baccalaureate degree in bioengineering will be tied to your year of admission. From this page you can select your start year for your degree. If you do not see your start year on the list, contact the Undergraduate Adviser in your department or the Watson School Advising Office to stay on track.
Information about the Watson Fast-Track MBA Combined Degree Program
After the declaration of major in bioengineering, each student is assigned a faculty adviser who will provide guidance throughout the student's stay at Binghamton. If you are not yet assigned a faculty adviser, or if you are not sure who is your faculty adviser, contact Ellen Madison at the Bioengineering Department office.
Each subsequent semester, during course pre-registration periods, each BE student is required to meet with his or her assigned faculty adviser. Print out and bring in a copy of your DARS report to every meeting. These meetings have several purposes, including:
Additional support is also available from Watson School Student Services.
