Prospective Graduate Students - Why Choose Illinios?
The Core Curriculum
The Bioengineering Graduate Curriculum is a unique set of classes designed to ground students in Bioengineering as academic discipline. These core classes provide the foundation of knowledge used in the Qualifying Exam.
The Core Curriculum consists of four classes taught over two semesters. Two classes are taught simultaneously and build off of each other in content and assignments. In the fall semesters new graduate students take Analytical Methods for Biological Systems Modeling and Computation in Bioengineering and Systems Biology. During the spring semster students take Cellular and Molecular Engineering and Advanced Instrumentation.
In addition to classes, graduate students attend weekly seminars presented by bioengineering researchers from around the world who are at the head of their field. Students prepare for the seminar by reading the presenter's most recent journal articles and then afterwards participate in a small group discussion lead by the presenter.
Fall Semester
BIOE 504: Analytical Methods in Bioengineering - 4 credit hours
BIOE 505 Computational Bioengineering - 4 credit hours
BIOE 500: Bioengineering Seminar Series - 1 credit hour
BIOE 501: Journal Reading - 1 credit hour
BIOE 502: Bioengineering Professionalism - 1 credit hour (half semester course)
BIOE 599: Bioengineering Research - 1 credit hours
Spring Semester
BIOE 506: Molecular and Cellular Engineering - 4 credit hours
BIOE 507: Advanced Instrumentation - 4 credit hours
BIOE 500: Bioengineering Seminar Series- 1 credit hour
BIOE 599: Bioengineering Research - 3 credit hours
Total 12 credit hours
