Program Overview

Bioengineering Program

The Bioengineering program at Temple University offers a comprehensive curriculum that integrates engineering principles, life sciences, clinical medicine, research, and engineering design to improve healthcare and quality of life.

Course Descriptions

The program includes a range of courses that provide students with a deep understanding of bioengineering principles and practices. Some of the courses offered include:

• BIOE 5278: Cardiac Devices
  • This course describes the structure, function, and control of the cardiovascular system and its quantitative modeling.
  • Students learn about pacing signals generated naturally in the heart and synthesized by electronics.
  • Design considerations and indications for use of various devices to directly or indirectly affect heart function are also covered.
• BIOE 5301: Biosignals
  • This course offers a deep overview of the signals in the biomedical fields, including time frame, frequency frame, and statistical frame.
  • A deep analysis of filters and analysis tools is included, along with basic techniques of storing and pattern interpretation techniques.
• BIOE 5311: The Entrepreneurial Bioengineer
  • This course provides a practical overview of all stages of development of medical devices in regenerative medicine, from idea to launch of a company and commercialization of the product into international markets.
• BIOE 5321: Biosensors
  • This course offers an in-depth overview of several sensors used in the biomedical fields, analyzing them from an engineering point of view.
• BIOE 5333: Applied Biospectroscopy
  • This course introduces the basics of light propagation in tissue and other turbid media, vibrational spectroscopy, absorption, and fluorescence.
• BIOE 5421: Capstone Elective: Bionanotechnology
  • This course introduces fundamental concepts critical in the design, preparation, analysis, and usage of bionanotechnology.
• BIOE 5431: Neuroengineering
  • This course teaches students how signals are generated and propagated in neurons and neuronal circuits, and how this knowledge can be utilized to engineer devices to assist people with neurologic disease or injury.
• BIOE 5441: Biomechanics
  • This course provides an integrative and multi-scale understanding of biomechanics that spans from tissues to organs to the dynamics of an intact, running body.
• BIOE 5451: Biomedical Imaging
  • This course focuses on principles of diagnostic radiological imaging physics, including X-ray, computed tomography, and nuclear medicine.
• BIOE 5461: Principles of Tissue Engineering
  • This course introduces fundamental concepts of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, focusing on biomaterials used for scaffolds and mechanisms of cell-biomaterial interactions.
• BIOE 5471: Mechanobiology
  • This course addresses how a cell utilizes its adhesions to neighboring cells and to the surrounding extracellular matrix to sense external forces and how these forces are transduced within the cell to alter cellular behavior.
• BIOE 5500: Special Topics in Bioengineering
  • This course covers an emerging or advanced area of bioengineering research, with topics varying by semester.
• BIOE 5501: Regenerative Engineering
  • This course is a continuation of fundamental concepts introduced in Principles of Tissue and Regenerative Engineering, focusing on developmental biology used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
• BIOE 5555: Biophotonics: Seeing is Believing
  • This course teaches students how light can be used to visualize and manipulate biomaterials at molecular, cellular, and tissue scale.
• BIOE 5600: Bioengineering Graduate Seminar
  • This is a required seminar for bioengineering graduate students, including speakers from academic and professional backgrounds for both scientific development and professional development.
• BIOE 5719: Introduction to Bioengineering
  • This course offers an introduction to biomedical engineering, a diverse and evolving field that integrates engineering principles, life sciences, clinical medicine, research, and engineering design.
• BIOE 5721: Cell Biology for Engineers
  • This course introduces biological concepts in modern cellular and molecular biology to engineering students, including the chemical composition of cells, bioenergetics, and metabolism.
• BIOE 5737: Systems Physiology for Engineers
  • This course is designed for graduate students majoring in engineering and for others interested in studying physiological processes from the molecular level to the organ/systems level.
• BIOE 5741: Biomaterials for Engineers
  • This course introduces engineering students to materials as they interact with biological systems, primarily in medicine, including properties of materials and classes of materials.
• BIOE 5999: Research Experience in Bioengineering
  • This course provides graduate students with laboratory experiences/research practices prior to undertaking independent, directed, master project, master's thesis, or dissertation research.
• BIOE 9182: Independent Study
  • This course allows students to engage in special study in a particular aspect of engineering under the direct supervision of a graduate faculty member.
• BIOE 9282: Independent Study II
  • This course is for special study in a particular aspect of engineering under the direct supervision of a graduate faculty member, which may be taken once by Ph.D. students.
• BIOE 9991: Directed Research
  • Under the guidance of a faculty member, the student conducts independent research on a selected topic in bioengineering.
• BIOE 9994: BioEngineering Preliminary Examination Preparation
  • This course is for preparation for the preliminary examination in bioengineering.
• BIOE 9995: BioEngineering Project Research
  • This course is for students conducting project research in bioengineering.
• BIOE 9996: BioEngineering Thesis Research
  • This course is for students conducting thesis research in bioengineering.
• BIOE 9998: Bioengineering Pre-Dissertation Research
  • This course is for students preparing for dissertation research in bioengineering.
• BIOE 9999: BioEngineering Dissertation Research
  • This course is for students conducting dissertation research in bioengineering, requiring enrollment in the dissertation writing student attribute.

Registration Restrictions and Repeatability

Each course has specific registration restrictions and repeatability rules, which are outlined in the course descriptions. Students must ensure they meet the necessary prerequisites and follow the guidelines for repeating courses.

Conclusion

The Bioengineering program at Temple University offers a comprehensive and diverse range of courses that cater to the needs of graduate students in the field of bioengineering. With its emphasis on integrating engineering principles, life sciences, clinical medicine, research, and engineering design, this program provides students with a solid foundation for a successful career in bioengineering.