Undergraduate Courses

BIEN 135, Biophysics and Biothermodynamics (bioengineering senior core course).

BIEN 165, Biomolecular Engineering (bioengineering technical elective course).

BIEN 190, Special Studies (bioengineering undergraduate course). Individual study to meet special curricular needs. Spring 2014.

BIEN 197, Research for Undergraduates (bioengineering course). Individualized course introducing undergraduate students into research. 

ENGR 198I, Individual Internship. Undergraduate internship performed at a company or organization.

Graduate Courses

BIEN 233, Computational Modeling of Biomolecules (bioengineering course, Including weekly lectures and hands-on lab workshops).

BIEN 249, Integration of Computational and Experimental Biology (bioengineering core course), also offered as CEE 249 (cross-listed for Chemical & Environmental Engineering) and as an online MS class.

BIEN 263, Special Topics in Biocomputation (bioengineering course). Course with variable topics, tailored on the needs of student groups or individual students.

BIEN 266, Special Topics in Biological NMR Spectroscopy (bioengineering course). Course with variable topics, tailored on the needs of student groups or individual students.

BIEN 286, Colloquium in Bioengineering, including Distinguished Speakers Series.

BIEN 290, Directed Studies (bioengineering course). Individualized course for graduate students based on research topics.

BIEN 297, Directed Research (bioengineering course). Individualized course for graduate research. 

BIEN 298I, Individual Internship. 

BIEN 299, Research for Thesis or Dissertation (for students who have passed their written and oral qualifying exams, working on their doctoral thesis). 

BIEN 302. Teaching Practicum.

BIEN 401. Fundamentals of Proposal Preparation and Ethical Standards in Bioengineering.

Senior Design Projects

• Project title: EMG to Talk. Shane Eum, Annie Lee, Enoch Li, Henry Marshall, Sanychen Muk, UCR, 2014-2015. Subsequently, Shane Eum received his MS degree from UCR; subsequently, BD Biosciences. Sanychen Muk became a Research Assistant at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope Medical Center.
• Project title: Biorobotic Hand. Michael Andraos, Jennalisa Crohn, Michael Haduong, Ratna Pottam, Gordon Zheng. UCR, 2013. Subsequently, Andraos attended the Program for Applied Biotechnology Studies (PABS) for a Master of Biotechnology degree at Cal State Fullerton. Crohn received her MS degree in Bioengineering at UCR. Zheng attended the Software Engineering Programme of University of Oxford, UK.
• Project title: Integration of AESOP into MGL Tools. Henry Plascencia, Bryan Duong, Bob Kim, Samson Meche. UCR, 2012. Subsequently, Plascencia received MS degree in Bioengineering, UCR. 
• Project title: Refining a Molecular Visualization App. José Gomez, Kyle McKellar, Aaron Nichols. UCR, 2011. Nichols and McKellar subsequently received M.S. degrees in Bioengineering, UCR; Gomez currently pursuing graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at University of Victoria, Canada.
• Project title: Development of Software Package for Determining Protein Titration Properties. Kaila Bennett, Amitoj Chopra, Jesse Johnson, Enrico Sagullo. UCR, 2010. Subsequently, Bennett attended graduate school in Bioengineering at UCR (PhD awarded in 2014), NSF Graduate Fellowship; subsequently postdoctoral fellow at University Medical Center - Utrecht. Johnson pursued an MS degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California.