IBSc Curriculum Requirements

• Core Competencies of IBSC Program
• Research Publication
• PhD Milestones 

• Seminar courses
• Special topics/special assignment courses
• ALL courses currently offered in ENE (Engineering Education)
• BME 595/MGMT 590 (Biomedship) (3 cr.)
• BME 595G Medical Development Accd &Eng Analysis (3 cr.)
• CHE 685 Educ Methods in Eng (3 cr.)
• PHAD 690 Regulatory Issues (1-3 cr.)
• PHYS 590 Reading and Research (1-3 cr.)
• SOC 573 Human Side of Medicine (3 cr.)
• STAT 503 Stat Methods Biology (3 cr.)
• STAT 511 Stat Methods (3 cr.)

Applicants will be admitted as Doctoral candidates only. The course plan should be formed through a dissertation committee based on the strengths and weaknesses of the student’s background.

Students will be required to take:

90 total credit hours of coursework and research

• 31 minimal credit hours of graduate (500 & 600 level) coursework (didactic courses)

Any remedial coursework to meet prerequisites (300, 400 level courses) will not count towards the 31 credit minimum coursework but may count towards the total 90 credit hours.

The composition of 31 minimal credit hours of graduate coursework:

• 12 credits from Biology/Biochemistry/other sciences
• 6 credits from Engineering
  • To earn an IBSC-BME PhD degree, all 6 engineering credits must be satisfied by BME courses and the student must have a primary or official co-advisor appointed in BME.
• 6 credits from Math/Statistics
  • At least 6 of the above 24 core competency credits must be from 600-level Purdue courses.
• 1 credit hour of graduate level ethics
• 2 semesters of seminar course: BMS 69200 or CPB 69700 
• 2 courses in Research Fundamentals (one in fall and one in spring)
• 2 semesters of BME seminar
• BME summer seminar presentation (no associated course credits)

All IBSC students are required to have at least two research papers (based on their research project) accepted in peer-reviewed journals before graduation.