Curriculum
Biomedical Option students take the Faculty-wide Engineering common first year, and the Department-wide Mech 2 second year program. The curriculum for third and fourth year follows.
Note: Due to limitations in course availability, all Option students are required to take their academic terms as per the normal Co-op schedule, regardless of their Co-op status. It will therefore take students a minimum of three years (after first year and Mech 2) to complete this program.
The normal Co-op order is:
| Term One | Term Two | Summer |
| Year 3 | Co-op | Academic | Co-op |
| Year 3.5 | Academic | Co-op | Co-op |
| Year 4 | Academic | Academic |
|
Third Year
| Code | Title | Credits |
| APSC 452 | Biomedical Equipment, Physiology and Anatomy | 3 |
| MECH 368 | Engineering Measurement and Instrumentation
| 3 |
| MECH 305 | Data Analysis and Mechanical Engineering Laboratories | 6 |
| MECH 325 | Mechanical Design I | 4 |
| MECH 326 | Mechanical Design II | 3 |
| MECH 328 | Mechanical Engineering Design Project (Biomedical focus) | 3 |
| MECH 360 | Mechanics of Materials | 3 |
| MECH 364 | Mechanical Vibrations | 4 |
| MECH 375 | Heat Transfer I | 3 |
| MECH 380 | Fluid Dynamics | 3 |
| MTRL 495 | Biomaterials | 3 |
| Total: | 38 |
Fourth Year
| Code | Title | Credits |
| APSC 450 | Professional Engineering Practice | 2 |
| APSC 456 | Clinical and Industrial Practice of Biomedical Engineering | 3 |
| EECE 365 | Applied Electronics and Electromechanics
| 3 |
| MECH 431 | Engineering Economics | 3 |
| MECH 439 | Biomechanics Research Seminar | 1 |
| MECH 459 | Biomedical Design Project | 6 |
| MECH 466 | Automatic Control | 4 |
| Technical Electives | 12 |
| Humanities Elective | 3 |
| Impact of Technology on Society Elective | 3 |
| Total: | 40 |
Technical Electives
Technical electives are to be selected as follows:
Choose a minimum of one:
- MECH 433 - Biofluids
- MECH 410W - Medical Device Design
- MECH 435 - Orthopaedic Biomechanics
- MECH 436 - Fundamentals of Injury Biomechanics
Choose a minimum of two:
- Any of MECH 433, 410W, 435, 436 (additional to above)
- MECH 505 - Industrial and Environmental Acoustics and Vibration
- MTRL 496 - Biomimetic Materials Processing
- PHYS 404 - Introduction to Medical Physics
- PHYS 405 - Introduction to Biophysics
- PHYS 438 - Zoological Physics
Plus one course from the general program technical elective list. With the approval of the Program Director, an appropriate course from outside the department may be substituted.
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