Undergraduates in the Bioengineering Program at the Watson School begin their studies with a common first-year curriculum of mathematics and the natural sciences required of all Watson School students. This includes an introduction to the various fields of engineering -- including bioengineering.
The fundamentals of bioengineering are presented through a sequence of six core technical courses that are integrated with six professional skills courses, taking students from systems with simple emergent properties, such as form, up to much more complex emergent properties, such as intelligence even as the students hone their 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 students have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and techniques acquired in the program to solve a real-world problem.
