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Biomedical & Rehabilitation Engineering Concentration: Requirements

As medical and health care have become increasingly technology-based in recent years, there has been increased demand for engineering with skills that integrate engineering principles with an understanding of human physical and psychosocial characteristics. The creation of a concentration for engineering students in Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering enhances opportunities for Clarkson's students to meet this need. The concentration is available to only engineering students and requires the following six three-credit courses totaling 18 credits in addition to a zero credit seminar. These courses can consist of an engineering department's required and elective subjects.

  • BR 100 Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering Seminar
  • BY 160 Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • BY 350 Comparative Anatomy
  • BY 360 Physiology
  • BR 400 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
  • A course from an approved list having psychosocial and/or health-related content.
  • A course from an approved list having biomedical and engineering design content.
The approved lists of courses are available at the Engineering Department offices and at the office of the Dean of Engineering. By successfully completing the courses described above students will, upon graduation, receive a bachelor's degree with their major with a Dean's Certificate indication a "Professional Concentration in Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering" and a notation to that effect on their academic transcript.

Approved list of courses
Approved April 10, 2006

Course from approved list having psychosocial or health-related content

PY253 Social Psychology
PY 355 Cognitive Psychology
PY 359 Perception
PY 360 Learning and Memory
PY 370 Developmental Psychology
PY 463 Health Psychology
LC 353 Medicine and Society in America
LP 241 Medical Ethics
LP 240 Contemporary Moral Issues
LP 341 Professional Ethics
LP 380 Science, Politics, Ethics
LP 392 Special Topic: Minds and Machines

BY 412 Molecular Biology Laboratory
BY/PY 454 Physiological Psychology
BY/PY 458 Cognitive Neuroscience
BY 450 Biochemistry I
BY 451 Biochemistry II
BY 460 Neurobiology
BY 470 Biochemistry and Biotechnology Lab
BY 476 Current topics in Biology and Medicine

CM444 Medicinal Chemistry
PH526 Biophysics

POL 380 The Law and Bioethics
HIST394 History of Medicine in Europe and the US
HIST 320 Medicine and Society in America

Course from approved list having biomedical and engineering design content
ME 380 Special Topics: Biomechanics
CH 465 Biochemical Engineering
CS 459 Human Computer Interaction
EE 419 Neural Engineering and Science
ES452 Biomaterials and Biomedical Applications

Senior design courses can count for this credit if the project is biomedical or rehabilitation engineering-based, as approved by the Director of CREST. This requires cooperation with the senior design course instructor.
EE 412 Senior Design
ME 445 Integrated Design I
CP 416 Senior Design
CH 480 Design I
CE 490 Senior (Structures, Transportation, Geotechnical) Design
CE 491 Senior (Water Resources/Environmental) Design

For additional information please contact Polly Tiernan 268-6528 ptiernan@clarkson.edu