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 http://www.ucsd.edu.catalog.courses.BENG.html to read the Bioengineering (BENG) departmental course descriptions on the online UCSD General Catalog. Additionally, visit similar sites to review the course descriptions for courses required in your major that are offfered 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) at http://vac.ucsd.edu or visit be-uginfo@bioeng.ucsd.edu.
Freshman Year
- BENG 2: Introductory Computer Programming & MATLAB (2 units)
- CHEM 6A-6B: General Chemistry I and II
- MATH 20A-20B: Calculus for Science & Engineering
- MATH 20C: Calculus & Analytic Geometry for Science & Engineering
- ECE 15: Engineering Computation
- ECE 35: Intro to Analog Design
- PHYS 2A: Mechanics
- PHYS 2B: Electricity & Magnetism
- PHYS 2BL: Lab-Mechanics & Electrostatics (2 units)
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
Sophomore Year
- BENG 1: Intro to Bioengineering (1 unit)
- MATH 20D: Differential Equations
- MATH 20E: Vector Calculus
- MATH 20F: Linear Algebra
- ECE 45: Circuits & Systems
- PHYS 2C: Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics & Optics
- PHYS 2CL: Lab-Electricity & Magnetism, Waves & Optics (2 units)
- BENG 100: Intro to Bioengineering Design
- BENG 109: Statics & Dynamics
- BENG 102: Molecular Components of Living Systems
- BENG 120: Organic Chemistry Structural & Design Principles
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
Junior Year
- BENG 101: Foundations of Biomedical Imaging
- BENG 110: Continuum Mechanics
- BENG 122A: BioSystems & Control
- BENG 130: Molecular Physical Chemistry
- BENG 133: Numerical Analysis & Computational Engineering
- BENG 134: Measurements, Statistics & Probability
- BENG 140A-140B: Bioengineering Physiology I and II
- BENG 152: BioSystems Engineering Lab
- BENG 187A: Bioengineering Design Project: Planning (1 unit)
- BENG 191: Senior Seminar I: Professional Issues in Bioengineering (2 units --- recommended, not required)
- ECE 174: Intro to Linear & Nonlinear Optimization with Applications
Senior Year
- BENG 125: Modeling & Computation in Bioengineering
- BENG 135: Biomedical Signals & Systems
- BENG 141: Biomedical Optics & Imaging
- BENG 186A: Principles of Biomaterials Design
- BENG 186B: Principles of Bioinstrumentation
- 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)
- Two 4-unit “Engineering-related” Technical Elective courses**
- Two “HSS” (General Education) courses for your college
**See departmental Student Affairs Office for additional information.
