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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (PhD)


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Program Requirements


Complete 63 credits from 12 courses including six core courses, four specialization courses, one project/directed study course, one doctoral seminar, and 30 credits of research.

Doctoral candidacy: Students must pass written and oral qualifying examinations before undertaking research at the doctoral level.
Dissertation: Candidates must compose and defend a dissertation based on original research.
Departmental presentation: Within two semesters after the advance to candidacy, the student will present a seminar, based on his/her work in progress, to the entire department.
Teaching: Students are required to participate in the teaching program as teaching assistants for at least two semesters.

Minimum grade: No more than one course with a grade of C may be applied toward the program.
Statute of limitations: Eight years.

Course Requirements


Core Courses (16 Credits)


Complete six courses from below.

One course must be taken in each area.

Specialization Courses (12 Credits)


Complete four courses chosen and approved by the dissertation committee.

Project/Directed Study (3 Credits)


The credits for this can be embedded in existing coursework, but the spirit of this requirement is that students must be involved in some multi-investigator collaborative project and the student should present this project at some national meetings or equivalent venue. Documentation of this presentation must be presented to the GPD for this requirement to be fulfilled.

Doctoral Seminar (2 Credits)


Doctoral students will present research in progress. The seminar will emphasize not only research but also communication and writing.

Research (30 Credits)


Complete at least 30 credits of doctoral research from below.

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