Undergraduate: Prospective Students – Distinctive Features
Creativity, Research, Design: Characteristics of Tulane's Undergraduate Program
Hallmarks of our undergraduate curriculum are the research and design experiences that are coordinated through the two semester sequences in 'Research and Professional Practice' and 'Team Design' so that every Biomedical Engineering student participates in an individual research project as well as a team design project.
Distinctive features of Tulane's undergraduate curriculum:
- Freshman year course designed to: Help students decide if Biomedical Engineering is the right career for them; help develop creativity; help students work together in teams; explore the design process from idea generation to construction and testing a prototype
- Breadth in fundamentals: Math, Science, Engineering Sciences (Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Materials Science and Engineering, Circuits), Professional Practice
- Medical Science for Engineers (Quantitative Physiology): Taught by experts in the field, faculty from Tulane's Medical School; includes visits to Medical School's anatomy labs
- Required team design project: Teams of 4 biomedical engineering students work with a disabled 'client' in the local community to design a device or process to assist the client; culminating with a design show in the Spring
- Depth in areas of interest: Domains of teaching and research include: Bioelectronics, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Bioelectricity and Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Required year-long independent research project: Students work from January of the Junior year until December of the Senior year on an individual research or design project with a faculty member in the Department or from the LSU or Tulane Medical Schools
- Students are required, while still undergraduates, to take a graduate course as a follow-up to a 'domain' course
- Recently, approximately 40% of BS graduates have gone to graduate school, 20-30% to Medical School, 20-30% to employment
- Current students are accepted into Medical School at twice the national rate of acceptance
