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B.Tech. Biomedical Engineering

Objectives
  • Graduates will contribute to solving problems in a variety of industries ranging from biomedical engineering to healthcare and information management.
  • Graduates will be engineering professionals, innovators, or entrepreneurs engaged in technology development and deployment and system implementation in biomedical engineering and other related industries
  • Graduates will function in their profession with social awareness and responsibility.
  • Graduates will interact with their peers in other disciplines in industry and society and contribute to the economic growth of the country.
  • Graduates will succeed in graduate studies and higher education.
  • Graduates will be leaders in biomedical engineering, healthcare and information management, industries and in teaching and research in higher education.
Student Outcomes:
  • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
  • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
  • an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health care and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
  • an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
  • an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
  • an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
  • an ability to communicate effectively
  • the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
  • a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in research and to involve in life-long learning
  • a knowledge of contemporary issues
  • an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
Scope for Employment
  • In biomedical research and development laboratories, industries and hospitals
Curriculum
Minimum total credit hours required for the completion Of the program is 181 credits

Basic Sciences and Mathematics
Course Title Credits
Anatomy and Physiology 4
Biochemistry and Biophysics 4
Engineering Chemistry 4
Environmental Studies 3
Modern Physics 4
Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations 4
Difference and Differential Equations 4
Multivariate Calculus and Differential Equations 4
Applied Numerical Methods 4
Probability and Statistics 4

General Education and others
Course Title Credits
English for Engineers – I 3
English for Engineers – II 3
Foreign Language 2
Psychology and Sociology 3
Ethics and Values (Management I) 3
Management II* 3
Management III* 3
Management IV* 3
* To be chosen from list of Management Courses

Engineering Core Courses
Course Title Credits
Artificial Organs 3
Basic Medical Instrumentation 4
Biomaterials and Components 3
Biomechanics 3
Biomedical Image Processing 4
Biomedical Instrumentation 4
Biomedical Signal Processing 4
Bio Transducers and Electrodes 4
BioMEMS 3
Clinical Engineering 3
Control Systems in Medicine 3
Digital Signal Processing 4
Electric and Magnetic Circuits 4
Integrated Circuits 4
Microprocessors and Microcontrollers in Medical Applications 4
Medical Imaging Techniques 4
Medical Physics 3
Rehabilitation Engineering 3
Semiconductor Devices and Circuits 4

Multi-Disciplinary Courses

Computer Programming and Problem Solving 3
Engineering Graphics 2
Workshop Practice 1

Cooperative Education

Industrial Internship 2
Comprehensive Viva 2
Project Work & Thesis 20

Engineering Electives Courses
( Five to be selected from the list)
Course Title Credits
Elective - I  
Elective – II  
Elective – III  
Elective – IV  
Elective – V  
List of Elective Courses  
Analytical Bioinformatics 3
Analytical Instrumentation 3
Artificial Neural Networks 3
Biofluid Dynamics 3
Biological Spectroscopy 3
Biomedical Informatics 3
Cancer Biology 3
Computers in Medicine 3
Computational Methods for Biomolecules 3
Embedded Systems in Medicine 3
Health Technology Management 3
Laser and Fiber Optics in Medicine 3
Medical Diagnostics 3
Medical Informatics 3
Nanobiotechnology 3
Pattern Recognition 3
Physiological System Modeling 3
Protein Engineering 3
Telemedicine 3
Tissue Engineering 3

Common Elective Courses
(Two courses to be selected from any school)
Course Title Credits
Elective - VI 3
Elective - VII 3


 





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