BioE Program Educational Objectives
Professional Skills
BioE alumni will:
- Possess required skills to function beyond entry-level engineers.
- Demonstrate sustainable professional development and planning to ensure their own as well as the success of others around them.
- Solve interdisciplinary engineering programs.
- Be professional role models for the next generation of students at MSOE.
Sense of Excellence and Acheivement
BioE alumni will:
- Exhibit professional and ethical responsibilities.
- Be recognized for excellence, and selected by a variety of industries for both their up-to-date engineering skills and for their comprehensive expertise.
- Compete for positions in local, state, national and international industries.
- Pursue a graduate degree in the sciences and engineering.
Social Skills
BioE alumni will:
- Display communication, management and leadership skills.
- Function creatively and independently under diverse cultural and workplace settings
- Exhibit perception of their profession as the one with a high impact on immediate and future social, economical, ethical and environmental issues as well as on the very condition of life itself.
- Demonstrate acceptance and tackle social, economical, ethical and environmental issues with respect, responsibility and a professional legal and moral code of conduct.
BioE Student Outcomes
Graduates of the biomolecular engineering program will:
- Apply knowledge of basic sciences, including physics, mathematics, biology, systemic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and biomolecular engineering.
- Perform biomolecular engineering experimentation, including hypothesis formulation, model development, measurements with positive and negative controls, data analysis and data interpretation.
- Apply acquired knowledge especially for the integration of molecular information into analysis and design of chemical and biological processes and products.
- Function on the multidisciplinary teams with professional ethics.
- Develop criteria by which to rank the merits of feasible solutions. Identify, devise and solve biomolecular engineering problems.
- Understand professional and ethical responsibility
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and with nontechnical audiences, in oral, written, and graphical forms.
- Understand the direct and indirect impact of biomolecular engineering on contemporary scientific issues in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
- Recognize the neeed for a lifelong learning approach towards new professional ideas.
- Exhibit knowledge of contemporary issues.
- Demonstrate the use of technical skills, tools, equipment and safety rules associated with biomolecular engineering practice.
- Display a thorough foundation in the basic sciences and sufficient knowledge in the concepts and skills required to design, analyze and control physical, chemical, and biological processes in the field of biomolecular engineering.
Future Directions
Important areas of biomolecular engineering such as bioinformatics, bioremediation, bio-nanotechnology and genetic therapeutics can be offered as concentrations of the program in the future.