N.B. The complete Academic Policies and Administrative Procedures
for the graduate programs of the School of Biomedical Engineering may be viewed online here, or may be downloaded as a pdf file for personal use only.

Master of Applied Science in Biomedical Engineering

Students with an honors degree, or equivalent, containing a research project component, can undertake studies towards the degree of MASc in Biomedical Engineering. The undergraduate degree can be in disciplines other than Engineering, although additional coursework may be required in some cases. The program is normally two years in duration, including six single-semester courses and a research thesis. Further details on admission criterial are available in the School Policies.

Ph.D. Studies in Biomedical Engineering

Students with a thesis-based Master's degree can undertake PhD studies in Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University. The Master's degree can be in disciplines other than Biomedical Engineering. Further details on admission criterial are available in the School Policies. Interested students should contact the School of Biomedical Engineering for advice on supervision, application procedures, etc.

Courses offered by Biomedical Engineering

Current courses offered in the School of Biomedical Engineering are found following menu link courses at the upper left. A listing follows:

BMNG 5020.03 (A) Cell Biology for Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 5040.03 (A) Introduction to Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 5110.03 (A) Biocompatibility and Biomaterials Design

BMNG 5210.03 (A) Biomedical Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Analysis

BMNG 5260.03 (A) Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Biology

BMNG 5010.03 (B) Introductory Physiology for Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 5030.03 (B) Pathobiology for Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 5120.03 (B) Biomechanics in Physiology and Surgical Implant Design

BMNG 5130.03 (B) Biomechanics of Human Gait

BMNG 5140.03 (B) Principles of Biomolecular and Drug Molecule Design

BMNG 5150.03 (B) Introduction to Tissue Engineering

BMNG 5230.03 (B) Biomedical Signal Analysis and Modeling

BMNG 5250.03 (B) Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach

BMNG 5410.03, 5420.03, 5430.03 (A/B or summer term) Directed Readings in Biomedical Engineering

Other courses applicable for students in Biomedical Engineering

There are hundreds of courses that student can take towards their degree programs offered throughout the university. Dozens of these courses are directly applicable to Biomedical Engineering including Biotechnology, Engineering, and Life Science courses offered by or in partnership with the Departments within Engineering Faculty (Biological, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Industrial), Departments of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Physiology and Biophyiscs, Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, Immunology , Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Physics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Kiniesiolgy, Mathematics and Statistics, Proshodontics and Pathology , Business Administration (MBA programme) and others. These include both graduate and undergraduate courses.

Selection of courses is based on the interests of the student, needs of the student's thesis program and are chosen by the student with the thesis supervisor and supervisory committee and with approval of the graduate coordinator. Some of the courses that may be applicable are listed below and the full listing of available courses available are in the graduate and undergraduate calendars.

Course numbers begineering with 3xxx and 4xxx are 3rd and 4th year undergraduate courses while 5xxx and 6xxx are graduate courses.

Anatomy and Neurobiology

ANAT 5030.06 Human Histology
ANAT 5100.06: Human Neuroanatomy.
ANAT 5130X/Y.06: Topics in Mammalian Embryology and Molecular Developmental Biology.
ANAT 5200X/Y.06: Research Laboratory Techniques in Anatomy and Neurobiology.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

BIOC 3200.03: Biological Chemistry.
BIOC 5010.03: Bioinformatics.
BIOC 5305.03: Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
BIOC 5501.03: Medical Biotechnology I.
BIOC 5603.03: Advanced Laboratory in Biochemical Techniques.
BIOC 5610.06: Scientific Writing and Advanced Laboratory in Biochemical Techniques.
BIOC 5700.03: Proteins.

Biology

BIOL 3024.03: Microscopy.
BIOL 4070.03: Advanced Topics in Animal Physiology.
BIOL 4404.03: Introduction to Pharmacology I.
BIOL 4407.03: Introduction to Pharmacology II.
BIOL 4408.03: Introduction to Pharmacology III.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

BIOL 5012.03: Advanced Laboratory in Biochemical Techniques.

Business Administration

BUSI 5007.03: Strategy and Competitiveness.
BUSI 6007.03: Starting the Emerging Technology Venture.

Chemistry

CHEM 3303.03: Materials Science.
CHEM 3601.03: Chemistry of Living Systems.
CHEM 5303.03: Physical Properties of Materials.
CHEM 5502.03: Polymer Science.
CHEM 6312.03 Colloid and Surface Science
CHEM 6316.03: Theory of Modern NMR Experiments.
CHEM 6501.03 Electronic Instrumentation for Scientists
CHEM 6505.03: Biological Mass Spectrometry.

Civil Engineering

CIVL 6153.03 Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP)

Community Health and Epidemiology

CH&E 5019.03: Principles of Biostatistics.
CH&E 5020.03: Biostatistical Modelling.
CH&E 6021.03: Advanced Biostatistics.
CH&E 6024.03 Methods in Clinical Trials
CH&E 6030.03: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Medical Research.

Computatoinal Biology and Bioinformatics

CSCI 6801.03: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
CSCI 6802.03: Algorithms in Bioinformatics.
BIOC 5010.03: Bioinformatics.
STAT 5620.03: Statistical Issues in Molecular Evolution.

Computer Science

CSCI 6505.03: Machine Learning.
CSCI 6508.03: Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECED 4600.03: Modern Control Systems.
ECED 4760.03: Biomedical Engineering.
ECED 6260.03: Computer Vision.
ECED 6265.03: Advanced Computer Vision and Image Processing.
ECED 6620.03: Optimal Control Systems.
ECED 6630.03: Introduction to Estimation, Identification and Stochastic Control.
ECED 6640.03: Mobile Robotics.
ECED 6650.03: Advanced Topics on Optimization Methods in Engineering and Physics.
ECED 6660.03: Fuzzy Systems.
ECED 6810.03: Neural Networks.

Engineering

IDIS 6003.03: Materials Science.

Engineering Math

ENGM 3032.03: Applied Statistics
ENGM 3052.03: Applied Numerical Methods..
ENGM 6610.03: Wavelets and Filter Banks
ENGM 6671.03: Applied Regression Analysis.
ENGM 6672.03: Experimental Design in Statistics.
ENGM 6673.03: Nonparametric Statistical Methods.

Electronic Commerce

ECMM 6024.03: New Venture Creation.

Health and Human Performance

KINE 5516.03 Neuromuscular Physiology
KINE 5523.03 Biomechanics of Human Motion
KINE 5572.03: Topics in Human Performance: Motor Control.
KINE 5590.03: Measurement and Instrumentation in Human Movement Analysis.

Health Services Administration

HESA 6500.03: Intermediate Statistics for Health Services.

Human Communication Disorders

HUCD 5120.03: Hearing Measurement
HUCD 6360.03: Amplification.
HUCD 6380.03: Electrophysiological Audiometric Measures.
HUCD 6420.03: Advanced Diagnostic Audiology.

Industrial Engineering

IENG 3334.03: Industrial Statistics.
IENG 3344.03: Operations Research: Linear Models.
IENG 4432.03: Simulation of Industrial Systems.
IENG 4443.03: Quality Control and Reliability.
IENG 4573.03: Industrial Biomechanics.
IENG 6900.03: Industrial Engineering Methodologies
IENG 6904.03 Industrial Work Systems Design.

Management

MGMT 3907.03: New Venture Creation Entrepreneurship
MGMT 4901.03: Managing the Venturing Process.

Materials Engineering

MATL 3621.03: Mechanical Behaviour of Materials.
METL 6030.03 Fracture of Metallic Materials
MATL 6010.03: Introduction to Transmission Electron Microscopy.
MATL 6011.03: Introduction to the SEM and Microprobe.

Mathematics and Statistics

MATH 5290.03/4290.03: Mathematical Analysis of Dynamic Biological Systems.
MATH 5400.03 Applied Math in Science and Industry
STAT 5500.03 Topics in Advanced Statistics
STAT 5620.03 Data Analysis

Mechanical Engineering

MECH 3900.03: Systems I.
MECH 4300.03: Stress Analysis.
MECH 4330.03: Mechanical Design.
MECH 4444.03: Mechatronics
MECH 4500.03: Vibrations.
MECH 4521.03: Applied Dynamics.
MECH 4600.03: Engineering Measurements.
MECH 4640.03: Robotics.
MECH 4650.03: Biomechanical Engineering.
MECH 4652.03: Kinematics of Human Motion.
MECH 4660.03: Finite Element Method in Mechanical Design
MECH 4900.03: Systems II.
MECH 4950.03: Advanced Control Engineering.
MECH 6325.03: Micro-electro-mechanical Systems
MECH 4960.03: Computational Methods in Engineering.
MECH 6350.03: Advanced Engineering Design.
MECH 6420.03: Advanced Fluid Mechanics.
MECH 6510.03: Advanced Mechanics of Solids
MECH 6620.03: Identification of Systems.
MECH 6640.03: Robot Mechanics.
MECH 6660.03: Finite Element Method in Mechanical Design.
MECH 6950.03: Advanced Control Engineering.

Micrbiology and Immunology

MICI 3024.03: Microscopy.
MICI 3115.03: Immunology.
MICI 4100.03: Processes and Mediators of Inflammation.
MICI 4302.03: Molecular Immunology.
MICI 5003.03: Special Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
MICI 5006.06: Topics in Advanced Immunology.
MICI 5601.03: Laboratory Techniques in Molecular Biology I
MICI 5602.03: Laboratory Techniques in Molecular Biology II.
MICI 5610.06: Scientific Writing and Advanced Laboratory in Biochemical Techniques.

Neuroscience

NESC 3970.03: Molecular Neuroscience.
ANAT 5100.06: Human Neuroanatomy.
CSCI 6508.03: Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience.
NESC 6100.06 Principles in Neuroscience
NESC 6101.03 Principles in Neuroscience: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.
PHYL 5519.03: Molecular Physiology of Ion Channels.
PHYL 5521.03: Molecular Physiology.

Pathology

PATH 5001.03: Advanced Mechanisms of Pathology.
PATH 5050.03: Immunopathology
PATH 5100.03: Processes and Mediators of Inflammation.

Pharmacology

PHAC 5405.03: Advanced Pharmacology.
PHAC 5406.03: Introduction to Pharmacology I.
PHAC 5603.03: Neuropharmacology of Pain.
PHAC 5606.03: Molecular Biology for Pharmacology.
PHAC 5625.03: Electrophysiology and Ca2+ Imaging for Pharmacological Research Cardiac and Other Excitable Cells

Physics

PHYC 5160.03 Mathematical Methods in Physics
PHYC 5170.03 Topics in Mathematical Physics
PHYC 5220.03 Microcomputer Based Instrumentation
PHYC 5311.03: Fluid Dynamics.
PHYC 6250.03: Experimental Techniques in Material Science.
PHYC 6291.03 Surface Science I
PHYC 6400.03: Medical Imaging Physics.
PHYC 6421.03: Radiological Physics.
PHYC 6422.03: Radiation Therapy Physics.

Physiology and Biophysics

PHYL 3320.03: Human Cell Physiology.
PHYL 4327.03: Advanced Human Cell Physiology.
PHYL 5000.03: Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills.
PHYL 5323.03 Human Physiology: the Mechanism of Body Functions
PHYL 5504.03: Advanced Topics in Respiration.
PHYL 5519.03: Molecular Physiology of Ion Channels.
PHYL 5521.03: Molecular Physiology.

Psychology

PSYO 6051.03 Neural Basis of Perception

Process Engineering and Applied Science: Biological Engineering

BIOE 3212.03: Measurement and Analysis.
BIOE 3312.03: Measurement and Control.
BIOE 3241.03: Industrial Biotechnology.
BIOE 4331.03: Design of Biomachines.
BIOE 4351.03: Bioprocess Engineering.
BIOE 4391.03: Polymeric Biomaterials.
BIOE 6210.03 (A) Advanced Biochemical Engineering
BIOE 6350.03 (B) Advanced Instrumentation

Process Engineering and Applied Science: Chemical Engineering

CHEE 3550.03: Process Dynamics and Control.
CHEE 4752.03: Process Modelling, Simulation & Control.
CHEE 6714.03 Polymer Science
CHEE 6730.03: Kinetics and Catalyses.
CHEE 6732.03: Transport Phenomena
CHEE 6800.03: Chemical Engineering in Biological Systems..

Statistics

STAT 5066.03: Advanced Statistical Theory I.
STAT 5067.03: Advanced Statistical Theory II.
STAT 5370.03/4370.03: Stochastic Process.
STAT 5390.03/4390.03: Time Series Analysis I.
STAT 5620.03/4620.03: Data Analysis.
STAT 5990.03: Intermediate Statistics for Health Sciences.