B.S. in Biomedical Engineering

The objective of the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering degree program at K-State is to prepare you for a professional career in engineering.

Biomedical engineering applies engineering principles to design challenges faced by the medical and life science communities. K-State’s biomedical engineering program can anticipate graduates designing medical devices and computer software for health care applications.

Emphasis areas

Two different areas of emphasis are initially available that take advantage of the strengths of existing faculty and their research programs:

Sensors and devices

The area of sensors and devices focuses on designing equipment and devices often found in clinics and hospitals, as well as the growing consumer market of wearable fitness devices.

Computation

Computation involves programming and software architecture to more effectively process, evaluate and act upon the growing volume of physiological and biometric data that originates from medical devices in use throughout our society.

Additional areas of emphasis being considered include tissue engineering and biomechanics.

Hear why K-State students chose to study biomedical engineering.

Curriculum

The 128 credit hour curriculum consists of the following:

36 credits of biomedical engineering core courses
52 credits of math and science core courses
8 hours in a general engineering core
6 hours in a humanities and social sciences core
26 hours in technical electives

The following BME courses will be offered as a supplement to other K-State courses that support the BME degree:

BME 001 - New Student Assembly
BME 200 - Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
BME 430 - Biomaterials
BME 451 - Biomechanical Engineering
BME 490 - Undergraduate BME Design Experience I
BME 491 - Undergraduate BME Design Experience II
BME 575 - Clinical Systems Engineering
BME 590 - Senior Design Experience I
BME 591 - Senior Design Experience II
BME 674 - Medical Imaging

View flowchart (pdf) of the curriculum

Faculty

A number of current faculty have extensive biomedical engineering backgrounds, having taught biomedical courses and served as investigators on numerous biomedical research grants, which includes the following:

Steve Warren, professor; biomedical engineering program coordinator; director of the Medical Component Design Lab
Charles Carlson, teaching assistant professor
Punit Prakash, associate professor; director of the Biomedical Computing and Devices Lab
Caterina Scoglio, professor; director of the Network Science and Engineering Group
David Thompson, assistant professor; research includes brain-computer interfaces and medical devices
Affiliate faculty from ECE and other K-State engineering departments

^{The biomedical engineering program will seek ABET accreditation after the first graduates of the program have completed their degrees, which is the standard ABET process used to seek accreditation of new programs.}