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The biomedical engineering faculty of the Milwaukee School of Engineering is dedicated to providing each biomedical engineering student with the knowledge and educational skills needed to function as an entry-level engineer or graduate student. Our curriculum was designed to educate each student in the areas of mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences, communications, social sciences, humanities and engineering. Through an 11-quarter biomedical engineering design team experience and engineering course work, the student will learn the engineering skills – both classical and biomedical – to satisfy the requirements of their career.

Biomedical Engineering Program Educational Objectives:

1. Biomedical engineering alumni demonstrate the skills that society commonly expects of persons holding a Baccalaureate degree, and to recognize the need to include service to society in their career plans. Service to society includes service to the engineering profession and to the many social, charitable and civic organizations.
2. Biomedical engineering alumni possess the skills required to function as an entry level engineer as defined by the Fundamental of Engineering examination. Additionally, they will possess the skills required to function as an entry level biomedical engineer in the areas of medical instrumentation, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical signal processing and medical imaging.
3. Biomedical engineering alumni recognize the ethical, legal and social issues involved in the practice of engineering and/or biomedical engineering.
4. Biomedical engineering alumni demonstrate personal and professional skills that allow them to function as productive members of an engineering design team. Professional skills include an understanding of common industrial practices that will allow them to excel in industrial and laboratory environments or be involved in entrepreneurial ventures.
5. Biomedical engineering alumni know the many career options open to biomedical engineering graduates. Those options include professions in industry, health care, engineering consulting, and government and continued development in professional schools, graduate school and continuing education. Further, graduates will recognize the need for lifelong learning and the many ways in which such learning can take place.

Biomedical Engineering Program Outcomes:

1. Graduates will have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics including calculus, differential equations, statistics, vector analysis and matrix analysis.
2. Graduates will have an ability to apply knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology and physiology.
3. Graduates will have an ability to apply knowledge of engineering science across the range of engineering topics.
4. Graduates will have an ability to solve problems at the interface of engineering and biology.
5. Graduates will have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data involving both living and non-living systems.
6. Graduates will have an ability to design a system, component, or process considering realistic constraints such a economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability to meet desired needs including the need to address the problems associated with the interaction between living and on-living materials and systems.
7. Graduates will have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams as demonstrated by participation in an 11-quarter Biomedical Engineering Design experience.
8. Graduates will have an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems involving living systems.
9. Graduates will have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility including the special requirements imposed on engineering solutions applied to living systems.
10. Graduates will have an ability to communicate effectively.
11. Graduates will have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context with special consideration given to health care issues.
12. Graduates will have an ability to engage in lifelong learning.
13. Graduates will have a knowledge of contemporary issues.
14. Graduates will have the ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.