Bioengineering students must complete 15 credits hours of technical electives. Of these, at least 6 credit hours must be selected from 4000-level BIOE courses. A tentative schedule for 4000-level BIOE electives during upcoming years can be found here.

A maximum of 3 hours of BIOE 4910 - Bioengineering Honors Thesis and BIOE 4990 - Bioengineering Independent Study may be used as general technical elective credit but cannot be used to satisfy the 4000-level BIOE course requirement.

Students pursuing the Pre-med option are required to complete CHEM 2410/60 - Organic Chemistry I and CHEM 2420/70 - Organic Chemistry II, which count as 8 hours of technical electives.

Technical electives are defined as upper-level courses in engineering (excluding Engineering Technology) or in the biological, chemical, mathematical or physical sciences. Any 3000-level or higher course in the following departments may serve as a technical elective:

• Bioengineering (BIOE)
• Biological Sciences (BIOL)
• Chemical Engineering (CHEE)
• Chemistry (CHEM)
• Civil Engineering (CIVE)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
• Mathematics (MATH)
• Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME)
• Physics (PHYS).

The following 3000-level courses that meet the previous description may NOT serve as technical electives:

Biology (BIOL)
BIOL 3070 - Human Physiology (3 hours)

Mathematics (MATH)
MATH 3510 - History of Mathematics (3 hours)

In addition to 3000-level courses, the following 2000-level courses may also serve as technical electives:

Chemistry (CHEM)
CHEM 2410 - Organic Chemistry I (3 hours)
CHEM 2420 - Organic Chemistry II (3 hours)
CHEM 2460 - Organic Chemistry Lab I (1 hour)
CHEM 2470 - Organic Chemistry Lab II (1 hour)
CHEM 2480 - Separations & Synthesis (2 hours)
CHEM 2490 - Synthesis & Identification (2 hours)

Mathematics (MATH)
MATH 2890 - Numerical Methods & Linear Algebra (3 hours)

Mechanical Engineering (MIME)
MIME 2300 - Engineering Dynamics (3 hours)
MIME 2600 - Engineering Economics (3 hours)

Any course that does not meet the requirements described above cannot serve as a technical elective unless WRITTEN approval is obtained from the Undergraduate Program Director PRIOR to course registration.