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Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Michael LaBeau

Advisor/Lab Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering

malabeau@mtu.edu
906-487-3655
M&M 306

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Biomedical Engineering Emphasis Areas with Recommended Engineering (Technical) Electives

Note: Emphasis areas increase in breadth from left to right in the following chart. Courses increase in depth from top to bottom.

BME Recommended Technical Elective Chart

Mechanics	Electronics/ Instrumentation	Synthetic Biomaterials	Tissue Engineering Stem Cell Engineering Biological Materials
Related core curriculum courses – All students take all courses regardless of emphasis
BE3300 Statics/Dynamics BE3550 Fluid Mechanics BE2800 Fund. Materials Science BE3800 Biomaterials BE3350 Human Biomechanics BE3400 Laboratory Techniques BE4900 Design Fundamentals BE2110 Statistical Methods	BE2700 Signals & Systems EE3010 Circuits & Instrumentation BE3700 Bioinstrumentation BE3701 Bioinstrumentation Lab BE3400 Laboratory Techniques BE4900 Design Fundamentals BE2110 Statistical Methods	BE2800 Fund. Materials Sci BE3800 Biomaterials BE3300 Statics/Dynamics BE3550 Fluid Mechanics BE3400 Laboratory Techniques BE4900 Design Fundamentals BE2110 Statistical Methods	BE2400 Cell/Mol Biol BL2010 Anatomy/Physiology I BL2020 Anatomy/Physiology II BE3400 Laboratory Techniques BE4900 Design Fundamentals BE2110 Statistical Methods
Suggested engineering (technical) electives (not all inclusive) - Students take a minimum of 4 engineering (technical) electives (Science electives are not included here)
BE4115 Finite Element Modeling BE4760 Numerical Techniques MEEM2700 Dynamics MEEM3750 Dynamic Systems MEEM3201 Fluid Mechanics MEEM4160 Experimental Stress Analysis MSE3210 Materials Characterization II MSE4800 Material & Process Selection MSE4300 Mech. Behavior Materials	BE4250 Biomedical Optics BE4670 Micro & Nano Technologies BE4700 Biosensors BE4770 Biomed Micro-controllers BE4755 Medical Devices BE4870 Computer / Micro. Image BE4930 Industrial & Clinical Issues BE4410 Medical Imaging EE3131 Electronics EE3140 Electromagnetics EE3160 Linear Systems & Control EE3261 Control Systems	BE4300 Polymeric Biomaterials BE4330 Biomimetic Materials BE4930 Industrial & Clinical Issues BE4335 Smart Polymers BE4800 Biomaterials Interfaces MSE4140 Science of Ceramic Mats. MSE3210 Materials Character. MSE4155 Composite Materials MSE4205 Scanning Electron Micro. MSE4600 Intro Polymer Engineering MSE4800 Material & Process Selection	BE 4200 Cell/Mol Biol II BE4230 Stem Cell Eng. BE4330 Biomimetic Materials BE4350 Cell Biomech / Transduc. BE4510 Cardiovascular Eng BE4800 Biomaterials Interfaces BE4850 Tissue Mechanics BE4870 Computer / Micro. Image MSE4205 Scanning Electron Micro. MSE4600 Intro Polymer Engineer.

Data-driven decision-making

Hi, I just wanted to write and say a huge thank you to everyone from the MTU Biomedical Engineering Department and share how this program has shaped my career so far.

Katelin Morrissette, MD

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center

I was one of the early biomedical engineering graduates, when the program was still very young. From there I went to medical school (after a brief stint as a ski bum for 1-2 yrs shout out to Mont Ripley Ski Patrol)! When I first entered medical school I wasn't sure how my engineering degree would prepare me compared to traditional "pre-meds."

What I can say is that the critical thinking, learning rather than memorizing, and confidence in my technical knowledge gave me unique perspectives and advantages I could not have predicted. Now, in addition to practicing critical care medicine, I am a clinical informaticist, meaning I use computer programming, data analysis and problem-solving to improve the way we practice and understand medicine.

Informatics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making are becoming more and more important in medicine, but this is a relatively rare skill set for pre-med or medical graduates to have. MTU positioned me really well to dive into this niche with confidence and I know that future MTU grads will also have amazing engineering and computer science skills to help make them leaders in medicine.

I hope to meet more MTU grads in medicine soon! Thanks MTU Biomedical Engineering!!