Courses
This page provides access to information about current course offerings in biomedical engineering. Both graduate and undergraduate courses can be found here.
Biomedical engineering course catalog
The course catalog page contains up-to-date course numbers and descriptions for classes in both biomedical engineering and bioinformatics.
Biomedical engineering course guides and resources
- Spring 2025 course schedule: Department-only summary of courses for spring 2025
- Summer 2025 course schedule: Department-only summary of courses for summer 2025
- Fall 2025 course schedule: Department-only summary of courses for fall 2025
- Teaching Assignments
- UIC schedule of classes (Banner link): Complete listing of UIC course schedules
- University final exam schedule
Special Topics courses
BME 494 Nanotechnology in Bioengineering
Analysis and design considerations of problems associated with nanomaterials and advanced nanoscale characterization for biomedical applications.
This course explores the fascinating intersection of nanotechnology and bioengineering, focusing on the application of nanoscale materials and devices in solving challenges within the biomedical and healthcare fields. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and group projects, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of nanobiotechnology and its potential impact on healthcare, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
BME 494 Interdisciplinary Design, Prototyping, and Manufacturing
Project based course during which engineering students will work collaboratively with medical students to design and prototype a medical technology. A single longitudinal project will be accompanied by hands-on learning of relevant prototyping and manufacturing processes. Instructor approval required.
BME 494 MRI in Practice
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most widely used imaging modalities in hospitals and clinics for medical diagnosis due to its non-invasive, non-ionizing, and multi-planar capability to visualize human body. This course offers in-depth discussions covering all core areas, including: basic principles, image weighting and contrast, spin and gradient echo pulse sequences, spatial encoding, k-space, protocol optimization, artefacts, instrumentation, and MRI safety. We will use the leading MRI reference book MRI in practice as our textbook. This course will prepare students, in the future, for advanced researches on MR imaging and for MRI related occupation, for example, the advanced level examination for MRI offered by the American Registry for Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) in the USA.
BME 494 Biomedical Computer Vision
This course will teach introductory computer vision with a focus on biomedical applications. The course will go through image processing methods, feature extraction, machine learning, and introductory deep learning for computer vision (i.e. convolutional neural networks for classification). The class will focus on 3 to 4 problem sets that will be a mix of theory questions and programming assignments, all of which will be in Python. A major portion of the class grade will also be a group project, where students will work in groups of 3 to 4 and apply the learned methods to a novel research problem on real-world data.
Wearables and Nearables Technology Laboratory
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- Prerequisites? They are strictly enforced. Instructor permission does not waive course prerequisites. Students can be dropped from courses after the add/drop deadline if they do not have the prerequisites for a course.
- Level restrictions? For 400-level courses, select the undergraduate-level section (usually 3 credit hours) and not the graduate-level section (usually 4 credit hours).
- Course approvals? Each department controls their own courses. For overrides, time conflicts, or issues with non-BME courses, contact the controlling department. There should be contact information in the undergraduate catalog at https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/colleges-depts/. Some exceptions are below:
- ECE instructions: Contact ecestudentaffairs@uic.edu if you are running into issues registering for ECE 210 (or other ECE courses). Provide as much detail as possible and include your UIN.
- BIOS instructions: Contact biosciadvising@uic.edu if you are running into issues registering for BIOS courses (check the curriculum flowchart at https://bme.uic.edu/undergraduate/biomedical-engineering-major/ for courses where prerequisites may be waived for BME students). Indicate that you are a BME student and include your UIN.