Design Of A Two Semester Transport Sequence For Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates

As a relatively new undergraduate field of study, biomedical engineering curricula vary significantly from university to university. In attempting to train undergraduate students for both industry and academia, the program at Saint Louis University has a combination of traditional basic engineering courses and upper level biomedical engineering specific courses. While the basic courses cover essential engineering topics and attempt to incorporate biomedical examples, the upper level courses specifically target biomedical topics, using the basic engineering principles as a basis. This paper describes the organization and contents of a two-semester transport sequence for undergraduates, covering topics from Navier-Stokes to bioartificial organs.