BEE 2600

Principles of Biological Engineering

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Focuses on the integration of biological principles with engineering, math, and physical principles. Students learn how to formulate equations for biological systems in class and practice in homework sets. Topics range from molecular principles of reaction kinetics and molecular binding events to macroscopic applications such as energy and mass balances of bioprocessing and engineering design of implantable sensors. Students will also experience scientific literature searches as related to the biological engineering topics, and critical analysis and evaluation of relevant information sources. BEE students must complete either BEE 2510 or BEE 2600 according to their academic plan. BEE students who complete both BEE 2510 and BEE 2600 receive engineering credit for only one of these courses.

Prerequisites Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2930, two semesters of core biology major classes (BIOMG 1350, BIOG 1440, BIOG 1445 or BIOEE 1610) plus BIOG 1500.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes

• Students will develop the ability to formulate differential equations for biological systems using basic principles of mass, momentum and energy conservation.
• Students will develop their abilities to think critically about biological engineering problems and solutions, including the ability to identify and develop alternatives
• Students will identify specific opportunities for integrating biology and engineering to address engineering problems.
• Students will use appropriate scientific literature searches, databases, source evaluation, information analysis and synthesis and presentation in written and oral formats.
• Students will demonstrate literature competency by the end of the course.

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