- Engineering Skills - Biomedical Engineering alumni possess the skills required to function as an entry level engineer as evaluated by the Fundamentals of Engineering examination. Additionally, they are able to critically solve multidisciplinary problems, evaluate alternative solutions to engineering problems, and succeed in their selected profession.
- Design Skills - Biomedical Engineering alumni demonstrate industrial and professional skills that allow them to function as productive members of an engineering design team. Industrial skills include an understanding of common industrial design practices and/or entrepreneurial ventures. Professional skills include effective communication, multi-disciplinary teamwork, leadership, and global awareness.
- Professional Responsibility - Biomedical Engineering alumni exhibit professional responsibility and recognize the ethical, legal, and social issues involved in biomedical engineering. Alumni will also recognize the need to include service to society in the form of service to the engineering profession as well as other social, charitable, and civic organizations.
- Career Planning and Development- Biomedical Engineering alumni engage in reflection, planning, self- assessment, growth, and life-long/continual learning to ensure a successful career.
Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the biomedical engineering program, graduates will:
- have an ability to evaluate systems in the areas of medical instrumentation, biomaterials, biomechanics, signal processing, imaging, biomedical control systems, and physiological modeling.
- have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics including calculus, differential equations, statistics, and vector and matrix analyses.
- have an ability to apply knowledge of science including physics, chemistry, biology and physiology.
- have an ability to apply knowledge of engineering science across the range of engineering topics.
- have an ability to solve problems at the interface of engineering and biology.
- have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to measure, analyze and interpret data involving both living and non-living systems.
- have an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems involving living systems.
- have the ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
- have an ability to design a system, component, or process considering realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability to meet desired needs including the need to address the problems associated with the interaction between living and on-living materials and systems.
- have an ability to communicate effectively.
- have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
- have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility including the special requirements imposed on engineering solutions applied to living systems.
- have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context with special consideration given to health care issues.
- recognize the need for and have an ability to engage in lifelong learning.
- have knowledge of contemporary issues with special consideration given to those issues that apply to living systems.