Bioengineering Program
Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering (BSBE)*
Educational Objectives
The BS Bioengineering (BE) program's long-term educational objectives are to be achieved by graduates after entering their chosen career paths. The BS Bioengineering program endeavors to prepare graduates for:
- Productive employment, graduate study, or professional programs, especially in human and animal medicine, biotechnology, and related biology-based engineering fields.
- Responsible contribution to society, drawing from an integrated multidisciplinary bioengineering education.
- Personal satisfaction and professional growth and advancement.
These objectives are aligned with the mission of Washington State University.
"As a public, land-grant and research institution of distinction, Washington State University enhances the intellectual, creative, and practical abilities of the individuals, institutions, and communities that we serve by fostering learning, inquiry, and engagement."
Along with this, the institution's first strategic goal is to:
"Offer the best undergraduate education at a research university."
The BS Bioengineering educational objective brings out three elements of the well educated undergraduates the institution seek to graduate:
- Their employability or attractiveness for opportunities following graduation.
- Their abilities to be productive in their field of training.
- Their abilities to continue successful careers after graduation.
These are consistent with the university's goal of "best undergraduate education" and its mission to enhance the intellectual, creative, and practical abilities of its graduates. Thus, the BE educational objectives contribute to the larger institution's goals and mission.
Educational Outcomes
The BS Bioengineering degree program is designed to provide graduates a set of capabilities important to engineering, in general, and to Bioengineering, in particular. According to ABET definitions:
"Program outcomes are narrower (i.e., narrower than program educational objectives) statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that students acquire in their matriculation through the program."
Therefore, our Program Outcomes are defined to ensure that graduates will achieve our Program Educational Objectives, while also satisfying outcomes required by ABET for all Bioengineering programs, and WSU learning goals.
To meet the Program Educational Objectives for the BS Bioengineering program, the following Program Outcomes have been defined and made public. The ten educational outcomes defining the capabilities that graduates should exhibit by the time they complete Washington State University's BS Bioengineering degree are:
- APPLICATION OF MATH/SCIENCE/ENGINEERING. Students will demonstrate an ability to use foundational knowledge in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering sciences.
- EXPERIMENTATION. Students will demonstrate an ability to design and conduct experiments, make measurements, analyze data, and interpret results and integrations between living systems and nonliving materials and systems.
- BIOENGINEERING DESIGN. Students will demonstrate and ability to design engineering solutions to meet needs with biological considerations and constraints of producers, users, investors, and society.
- TEAMWORK. Students will demonstrate an ability to work in teams comprised of engineers and others to produce joint work products.
- SYSTEM SOLUTIONS. Students will demonstrate an ability to use analogous thinking, synthesis and analysis, integrative systems approaches, and associated tools to solve engineering problems.
- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. Students will demonstrate understanding of professional and ethical responsibility and reasoning suitable for professional decision-making.
- COMMUNICATION. Students will demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively in written and oral forms to interdisciplinary audiences.
- CRITICAL THINKING. Students will demonstrate an ability to analyze and evaluate scientific and engineering arguments or claims and to critically relate such claims to global, economic, environmental, professional, and societal issues.
- INDEPENDENT LEARNING. Students will demonstrate an awareness of a need for ongoing professional growth and ability to learn independently to address challenges they encounter.
- CAREER AWARENESS. Students will demonstrate an awareness of career opportunities and contemporary issues that influence their choices of entry-level jobs and advanced training.
These outcomes encompass the outcomes required by ABET and WSU's six learning goals of the baccalaureate. Washington State University learning goals ensure a well-rounded academic preparation that includes both general abilities and those for a specialized field of study, such as Bioengineering.
- CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING: Graduates will use knowledge of evidence and of content to reason and reach conclusions as well as to innovate in imaginative ways.
- QUANTITATIVE AND SYMBOLIC REASONING: Graduates will analyze and communicate appropriately with mathematical and symbolic concepts.
- INFORMATION AND LITERACY: Graduates will take a disciplined and systematic approach to accessing, evaluating and using information.
- COMMUNICATION: Graduates will write, speak, and listen to achieve intended and meaningful understanding.
- SELF IN SOCIETY: Graduates will employ self-understanding and interact effectively with others of similar and diverse cultures, values, perspectives and realities.
- SPECIALTY: Graduates will hone a specialty for the benefit of themselves, their communities, their employers, and for society at large.
* Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET Inc.
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Bioengineering Presentation
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