Selected list of engineering courses
Selected list of natural science courses
- BIOL 225 Microbiology, BIOL 245 Immunology, BIOL 251 Human Physiology, BIOL 255 Molecular Genetics, BIOL 256 Neurobiology, BIOL 257 Public Health Biology, BIOL 274 Intro to Bioinformatics, BIOL 277 Cell Biology, BIOL 285 Biological Modeling, BIOL 328 Cancer Biology, BIOL 345 Infectious Disease, BIOL 347 Precision Medicine, BIOL 350 Genomics, BIOL 356 Biomedical Informatics
- CHEM 351 Survey of Biochemistry, CHEM 352 Foundational Biochemistry, CHEM 353 Advanced Biochemistry, CHEM 354 Experimental Biochemistry, CHEM 408 Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, CHEM 455 Special Topics in Biochemistry
- NEUR 201 Intro to Neuroscience, NEUR 265 Intro to Neural Data Analysis, NEUR/PSYC 225 Psychopharmacology, NEUR/PSYC 323 Physiological Psychology II
- PHYS 220 Medical and Biological Physics
- INDS 246 Biotechnology and Innovation (can be counted as either an engineering elective or a science elective)
- Independent study and/or honors thesis with biotechnology content
Honors Thesis
The honors thesis project should be centered within the student’s major department or program. In addition to following the honors thesis guidelines established by his/her major, the student must demonstrate the project’s relevance to the biotechnology/bioengineering field if he/she plans to have it count towards the minor requirement. An honor thesis can only be counted one course for the minor if the thesis is successfully completed and defended. Ideally, the student’s thesis committee would have a committee member from the biotechnology/bioengineering advisory committee.
If the student changes his/her mind after the first semester and converts honors to independent study, the Advisory Committee will decide on honoring a course credit upon review of the project report. It is the responsibility of students to inform the committee chair of pursuing honors and/or independent study and provide necessary support documents (proposal, drafts, etc.) at dates no later than their departmental deadlines.
Independent Study
An independent study project can be counted towards the minor requirement if the scope of the project is centered within the major where the independent study is offered and is relevant to the biotechnology or bioengineering field. The project must be approved by the Advisory Committee of the Biotechnology/Bioengineering Program through the following process.
- During the first week of the semester in which the student is conducting his/her Independent Study, he/she must submit a project proposal to the Advisory Committee of the Biotechnology/Bioengineering Program for approval. The proposal should demonstrate the relevance of the project to the biotechnology or bioengineering field, outline the tasks to be accomplished in the project, and provide the timeline for each task.
- The Advisory Committee should review the project proposal and notify the student if the scope of the project is acceptable as a biotechnology/bioengineering course before the College’s add/drop deadline.
- At the end of the semester, the student should demonstrate his/her accomplishment in the project and submit a project report to the Advisory Committee on a date specified by the Committee Chair. The Advisory Committee will decide on giving a course credit towards the minor requirement upon reviewing the project report.