Bioengineering, MSBioE (Boston)

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Seminar

BIOE 7390 — Seminar

Required Core

From the catalog
A grade of C or higher is required in each course:

BIOE 6000 — Principles of Bioengineering
BIOE 6100 — Medical Physiology

Optional Co-op Experience

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Complete the following (students must complete ENCP 6100 to qualify for co-op experience):

ENCP 6100 — Introduction to Cooperative Education
One of:
- ENCP 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
- ENCP 6954 — Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time
- ENCP 6955 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad - Half-Time
- ENCP 6965 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

Concentrations (choose 1)

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

From the catalog
Complete two of the following (a grade of C or higher is required):
Complete one of the following options:
Complete 16 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
Complete 12 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.
Course List

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- BIOE 5630 — Physiological Fluid Mechanics
- BIOE 5640 — Computational Biomechanics
- BIOE 5650 — Multiscale Biomechanics
- BIOE 5660 — Integrative Mechanobiology
- ME 5665 — Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
From the catalog
Course List
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
- BIOE 7990 — Thesis
- BIOE 5115 — Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5440 — The Cell as a Machine
- BIOE 5560 — Bioengineering Design for Robotic Rehabilitation
- BIOE 5630 — Physiological Fluid Mechanics
- BIOE 5640 — Computational Biomechanics
- BIOE 5650 — Multiscale Biomechanics
- BIOE 5660 — Integrative Mechanobiology
- BIOE 5770 — Machine Learning Methods in Biology and Health
- One of:
  - BIOE 5820 — Biomaterials
  - CHME 5631 — Biomaterials Principles and Applications
- BIOL 5601 — Multidisciplinary Approaches in Motor Control
- CHME 5632 — Advanced Topics in Biomaterials
- EECE 7200 — Linear Systems Analysis
- EECE 7203 — Complex Variable Theory and Differential Equations
- ME 5650 — Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- ME 5654 — Elasticity and Plasticity
- ME 5655 — Dynamics and Mechanical Vibration
- ME 5657 — Finite Element Method 1
- ME 5658 — Continuum Mechanics
- ME 5659 — Control Systems Engineering
- ME 5665 — Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
- ME 7238 — Finite Element Method 2

Biomedical Devices and Bioimaging

From the catalog
A grade of C or higher is required:
Complete one of the following options:
Complete 12 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
Complete 8 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.
Course List

BIOE 5800 — Systems, Signals, and Controls for Bioengineers
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
Choose 8 semester hours from:
- One of:
  - BIOE 5235 — Biomedical Imaging
  - BIOE 5648 — Biomedical Optics
- BIOE 5250 — Regulatory and Quality Aspects of Medical Device Design
- BIOE 5810 — Design of Biomedical Instrumentation
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
From the catalog
Course List
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
- BIOE 7990 — Thesis
- BIOE 5115 — Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5250 — Regulatory and Quality Aspects of Medical Device Design
- BIOE 5510 — Bioengineering Products/Technology Commercialization
- BIOE 5560 — Bioengineering Design for Robotic Rehabilitation
- One of:
  - BIOE 5648 — Biomedical Optics
  - BIOE 5235 — Biomedical Imaging
- BIOE 5770 — Machine Learning Methods in Biology and Health
- BIOE 5810 — Design of Biomedical Instrumentation
- One of:
  - BIOE 5820 — Biomaterials
  - CHME 5631 — Biomaterials Principles and Applications
- BIOE 5850 — Design of Implants
- CHME 5632 — Advanced Topics in Biomaterials
- EECE 5606 — Micro- and Nanofabrication
- EECE 7200 — Linear Systems Analysis
- EECE 7203 — Complex Variable Theory and Differential Equations
- EECE 7204 — Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes
- ME 5657 — Finite Element Method 1
- NNMD 5370 — Nanomedicine Research Techniques

Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering

From the catalog
Complete three of the following (a grade of C or higher is required):
Complete one of the following options:
Complete 11-12 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
Complete 7-8 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.
Course List

Choose 12 semester hours from:
- BIOE 5410 — Molecular Bioengineering
- BIOE 5411 — Applied Molecular Bioengineering
- BIOE 5420 — Cellular Engineering
- BIOE 5430 — Principles and Applications of Tissue Engineering
- BIOE 5440 — The Cell as a Machine
- BIOE 5450 — Stem Cell Engineering
- BIOE 5710 — Experimental Systems and Synthetic Bioengineering
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
From the catalog
Course List
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
- BIOE 7990 — Thesis
- BIOE 5115 — Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5250 — Regulatory and Quality Aspects of Medical Device Design
- BIOE 5510 — Bioengineering Products/Technology Commercialization
- BIOE 5650 — Multiscale Biomechanics
- BIOE 5660 — Integrative Mechanobiology
- BIOE 5711 — Advanced Experimental Systems and Synthetic Bioengineering
- BIOE 5720 — Physical Bioengineering
- BIOE 5770 — Machine Learning Methods in Biology and Health
- One of:
  - BIOE 5820 — Biomaterials
  - CHME 5631 — Biomaterials Principles and Applications
- BIOL 5543 — Stem Cells and Regeneration
- BIOL 6301 — Molecular Cell Biology
- CHEM 5620 — Protein Chemistry
- CHEM 5621 — Principles of Chemical Biology
- CHME 5160 — Drug Delivery: Engineering Analysis
- CHME 5515 — Process Safety Engineering for Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries
- CHME 5632 — Advanced Topics in Biomaterials
- CHME 5683 — Introduction to Polymer Science
- NNMD 5370 — Nanomedicine Research Techniques
- NNMD 5470 — Nano/Biomedical Commercialization: Concept to Market

Systems, Synthetic, and Computational Bioengineering

From the catalog
Complete three of the following (a grade of C or higher is required):
Complete one of the following options:
Complete 11-12 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
Complete 7-8 semester hours from the course list. Any course on the required course list not used toward the core requirement may also be taken.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.
Course List

Choose 12 semester hours from:
- BIOE 5115 — Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5710 — Experimental Systems and Synthetic Bioengineering
- BIOE 5720 — Physical Bioengineering
- BIOE 5750 — Modeling and Inference in Bioengineering
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
From the catalog
Course List
One of:
- BIOE 7945 — Master’s Project
- BIOE 7990 — Thesis
- BINF 6400 — Genomics in Bioinformatics
- BIOE 5115 — Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5440 — The Cell as a Machine
- BIOE 5510 — Bioengineering Products/Technology Commercialization
- BIOE 5640 — Computational Biomechanics
- BIOE 5711 — Advanced Experimental Systems and Synthetic Bioengineering
- BIOE 5750 — Modeling and Inference in Bioengineering
- BIOE 5760 — Method and Logic in Systems Biology and Bioengineering
- BIOE 5770 — Machine Learning Methods in Biology and Health
- BIOE 5860 — Engineering Approaches to Precision Medicine I
- BIOE 5880 — Computational Methods in Systems Bioengineering
- BIOL 6299 — Molecular Cell Biology for Biotechnology
- CHEM 5638 — Molecular Modeling
- CHME 5630 — Biochemical Engineering
- DS 5110 — Essentials of Data Science
- DS 5220 — Supervised Machine Learning and Learning Theory
- DS 5230 — Unsupervised Machine Learning and Data Mining
- HINF 5101 — Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
- PHTH 5202 — Introduction to Epidemiology
- PHYS 5116 — Network Science 1

GPA requirements

Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Principles of Bioengineering (BIOE 6000) and Seminar (BIOE 7390) are not required for students admitted to this program via a PlusOne pathway, but students must successfully complete a total of 32 semester hours.

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under bioengineering-msbioe-boston, and the official page is the authority.