CURRICULUM
Flowchart
Flowchart for students currently in the Bioengineering: BioSystems major is provided here, downloadable in PDF format.
Bioengineering: BioSystems Flowchart (updated 4/8/2024)
Current undergraduate students are encouraged to be aware of their own progress toward graduation. To achieve this, students should keep up-to-date a flowchart that is marked for each course with the year/quarter it is completed and the grade received.
Freshmen
If you have satisfied one or more courses by Advance Placement ("AP") from high school, enroll in the next course in the series (e.g. if "AP" exempts you from MATH 20A, enroll in MATH 20B).
Freshmen and Transfer Students
Go to https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/BENG.html to read the Bioengineering (BENG) departmental course descriptions in the UCSD General Catalog. Additionally, visit similar sites to review the course descriptions for courses required in your major that are offered by other departments.
If, after reviewing your major's requirements, you have questions and wish to contact Bioengineering Student Affairs academic advisors, do so preferably via the Virtual Advising Center (VAC) or via email request be-uginfo@bioeng.ucsd.edu.
COURSES
- Freshman Year
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- BENG 1: Intro to Bioengineering (2 units)
- BENG 2: Introductory Computer Programming & MATLAB (2 units)
- CHEM 6A-6B: General Chemistry I and II
- MATH 20A: Calculus for Science & Engineering
- MATH 20B: Calculus for Science & Engineering
- MATH 20C: Calculus & Analytic Geometry for Science & Engineering OR MATH 31BH: Honors Multivariable Calculus
- ECE 35: Intro to Analog Design
- PHYS 2A: Mechanics
- PHYS 2B: Electricity & Magnetism
- PHYS 2BL: Physics Laboratory-Mechanics
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
- Sophomore Year
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- BENG 100: Introduction to Probablity and Statistics for Bioengineers
- BENG 102: Molecular Components of Living Systems
- BENG 120: Organic Chemistry Structural & Design Principles
- ECE 45: Circuits & Systems
- MATH 18: Linear Algebra OR MATH 31AH: Honors Linear Algebra
- MATH 20D: Introduction to Differential Equations
- MATH 20E: Vector Calculus OR MATH 31CH Honors Vector Calculus
- PHYS 2C: Physics - Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics & Optics
- PHYS 2CL: Physics Laboratory -Electricity & Magnetism (2 units)
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
- Junior Year
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- BENG 110: Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
- BENG 130: Biotechnology Thermodynamics and Kinetics
- BENG 133: Numerical Analysis & Computational Engineering
- BENG 134: Measurements, Statistics & Probability
- BENG 140A: Bioengineering Physiology
- BENG 140B: Bioengineering Physiology
- BENG 141: Biomedical Optics and Imaging
- BENG 152: BioSystems Engineering Laboratory
- BENG 186B: Principles of Bioinstrumentation Design
- BENG 187A: Bioengineering Design Project: Planning (1 unit)
- BENG 191: Senior Seminar I: Professional Issues in Bioengineering (2 units --- recommended, not required)
- Senior Year
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- BENG 122A: Biosystems and Control
- BENG 125: Modeling & Computation in Bioengineering
- BENG 135: Biomedical Signals & Systems
- BENG 187B: Bioengineering Design Project: Development (1 unit)
- BENG 187C: Bioengineering Design Project: Implementation (1 unit)
- BENG 187D: Bioengineering Design Project: Presentation (1 unit)
- BENG 189: Physiological Systems Engineering
- BENGXXXA: Design Elective Course "A" (3 units)
- BENGXXXB: Design Elective Course "B" (3 units)
- BENG 191: Senior Seminar I: Professional Issues in Bioengineering (2 units, if not taken in junior year --- recommended, not required)
- TE: Technical Elective courses (Two 4-unit “Engineering-related” )**
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
**See departmental Student Affairs Office for additional information.