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Sample A.B./B.E. Program: Biotechnology

Students interested in a career in biotechnology combine engineering with biology and chemistry.

Sample A.B. Engineering Sciences Major

Common core (3 courses)

Distributive core (2 courses)

Gateway (3 courses)

Electives (2 courses)

  • BIOL 12 (formerly 15) Cell Structure and Function
  • CHEM 6 General Chemistry II

Sample B.E. Program

Mathematics (1 course)

  • ENGS 103 Statistical Methods in Engineering

Engineering design (2-course sequence)

  • ENGS 190 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation
  • ENGS 290 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Completion

Biotechnology (6 courses)

  • ENGS 156 Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer OR ENGS 162 Methods in Biotechnology
  • ENGS 157 Chemical Process Design
  • ENGS 158 Chemical Kinetics and Reactors
  • ENGS 161 Metabolic Engineering
  • BIOL 46 (formerly 64) Microbiology
  • CHEM 51 or 57 Organic Chemistry