Outcomes Based Curriculum Development In A New And Emerging Biomedical Engineering Program

The Biomedical Engineering program at North Carolina State University has been emerging since the early 1990s, when it began as a graduate minor. In 1994, the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) began offering the B.S. in Biological Engineering (BE) and included a concentration in Biomedical Engineering. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response of students to the Biomedical Engineering Concentration, the BAE faculty voted in 1997 to develop a separate B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (BME). In May 2001, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina system approved the establishment of the B.S. in BME, and the new degree program, which is strongly supported by both the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State and is the only statesupported B.S. in BME in North Carolina, became effective in August 2001.