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Concentration Areas and Approved Electives for MEng in Biomedical Engineering

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Biomaterials
  • 3.225 Electronic & Mechanical Properties of Materials
  • 3.35 Fracture & Fatigue 
  • 20.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials 
  • HST 521 Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering in Medical Devices & Artificial Organs
Speech & Hearing Bioengineering 
  • 6.345J Automatic Speech Recognition 
  • 6.863J Natural Language & the Computer Representation of Knowledge 
  • HST 710J Speech Communication 
  • HST 714J Acoustics of Speech & Hearing 
  • HST 716J Signal Processing by the Auditory System: Perception
Biomedical Signal & Image Processing
  • 2.161 Signal Processing: Continuous & Discrete 
  • 6.341 Discrete-Time Signal Processing 
  • 6.344 Digital Image Processing 
  • 6.345J Automatic Speech Recognition 
  • 6.551J Acoustics of Speech and Hearing
  • 22.562 Spatial Aspects of Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy
  • HST 561J Noninvasive Imaging in Biology and Medicine
  • HST.569 Biomedical Optics
  • HST 582J Biomedical Signal & Image Processing 
  • HST 583 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis 
  • HST 584J Magnetic Resonance: Analytic, Biochemical & Imaging Techniques
 
Biomedical Instrumentation
One G-level subject permitted in this concentration
  • 6.331 Advanced Circuit Techniques 
  • 6.374 Analysis & Design of Digital Integrated Circuits 
  • HST 580J Data Acquisition and Reconstruction in MRI
  • 6.581J Foundations of Algorithm and Computational Techniques in Systems Biology
  • 6.720J Integrated Microelectronic Devices 
 
Biomedical Informatics
 
  • HST 940J Bioinformatics: Principles, Methods & Applications 
  • HST 950J Biomedical Computing 
  • HST 951J Medical Decision Support
 
Cell & Tissue Engineering 
  • 10.542 Biochemical Engineering 
  • 10.544 Metabolic & Cell Engineering 
  • 20.410J Molecular, Cellular & Tissue Biomechanics 
  • 20.420J Biomolecular Kinetics & Cellular Dynamics 
  • 20.430J Fields, Forces, & Flows in Biological Systems 
  • HST 450J Biological Physics 
  • HST 525J Tumor Pathophysiology and Transport Phenomena: A Systems Biology Approach
 
Quantitative Systems Physiology & Simulation 
  • 2.141 Modeling & Simulation of Dynamic Systems 
  • 2.183 Biomechanics & Neural Control of Movement 
  • 6.241 Dynamic Systems & Control 
  • 6.243 Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems 
  • 6.435 System Identification
  • 6.522J Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems