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Eligibility and Academic Standards
Open to all Cornell undergraduates. Pre-approval of minor plan is required.
Students may participate in either the Biological Engineering minor or the Biomedical Engineering minor, but not both.
Students must earn a grade of C- or better in each course in the minor. GPA ≥2.0 for all courses in the minor.
Course Requirements
To earn the minor, students must complete six courses from the five categories listed below.
- Two courses must be in Category 1 and/or Category 2 with no more than one listing from Category 1.
- Four courses must come from Category 3, Category 4, and Category 5, with courses from at least two of these categories represented.
- Up to two courses can be a specifically required major degree course or cross listing. A course chosen from a list of major electives is acceptable.
- Additional courses, such as those listed in the concentration electives for the Biomedical Engineering major, can be approved by petition.
Note: Students interested in professional practice as biomedical engineers should consider the M.Eng. degree in Biomedical Engineering. The recommended sequence for admission is as follows, two courses from Category 1 and Category 2, BME 3010, 3020, 4010, and 4020. The program requires that students have knowledge of molecular and cellular biomedical engineering and of biomedical engineering analysis of physiological systems.
Category 1: Introductory Biology
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A score of 5 on CEEB Advanced Placement Biology
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BIOG 1440 or 1445
Introductory Biology: Comparative Physiology, or Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Individualized Instruction
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BIOMG 1350
Introductory Biology: Cell and Developmental Biology
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BME 2010
Human Physiology of Health and Disease
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CHEME 2880
Biomolecular Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications
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ENGRI/BME 1310
Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
Category 2: Advanced Biology
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BIOAP/BIOMS 3160
Cellular Physiology
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BIOAP/BIOMS 4130
Histology: The Biology of Tissues
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BIOMG 2800
Genetics and Genomics
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BIOMG 3310 and BIOMG3320 or BIOMG 3300
Principles of Biochemistry, Proteins and metabolism
and Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular biology
or
Principles of Biochemistry, individualized instruction
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BIOMG 3350
Principles of Biochemistry, Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology
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BIOMI 2900
General Microbiology Lectures
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BIONB 2220
Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience
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NS 3410
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Category 3: Molecular and Cellular Biomedical Engineering
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BEE 3600
Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering
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BIOCB 4840/CS 4775
Computational Genetics and Genomics
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BME 3010
Cellular Principles of Biomedical Engineering
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BME 3020/CHEME 4020
Molecular Principles of Biomedical Engineering
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BME 5830
Cell-Biomaterials Interactions
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BME 5850
Current Practice in Tissue Engineering
Category 4: Biomedical Engineering Analysis of Physiological Systems
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BIONB/BIOAP/BIOMS 4140
Principles of Pharmacology
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BIONB/BME/COGST/PSYCH 3300
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
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BIONB/BME/ECE 4910
Principles of Neurophysiology
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BME 3410
Systems Mechanobiology
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BME 4010/MAE 4660
Biomedical Engineering Analysis of Metabolic and Structural Systems
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BME 4020
Electrical and Chemical Physiology
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MAE/BME 4640
Orthopaedic Tissue Mechanics
Category 5: Biomedical Engineering Applications
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BEE 4500
Bioinstrumentation
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BEE/MAE 4530
Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Processes
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BME 3210
Multiscale Biomaterial Analysis
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BME 3310
Medical and Preclinical Imaging
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BME/ECE 5780
Computer Analysis of Biomed Images
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BME 5810/MAE 5680
Soft Tissue Biomechanics
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BME 6210
Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery
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BME 6350
Introduction to Neurotechnology
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CHEME 5430
Bioprocess Engineering
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MSE 4610
Biomedical Materials and their Applications