Admission requirements and program policies

Admission requirements

1. Student should be a major in the UNT Computer Engineering, BS  program.
2. Students can apply for the grad track option his/her junior year (following completion of at least 75 credit hours; a benchmark is if the student is ready for Senior Design in the following fall semester).
3. Minimum of 3.5 or higher cumulative GPA required at the time of application submission, with a minimum GPA of 3.5.
4. Application will be reviewed by both the undergraduate advisor in Computer Science and Engineering and graduate advisor in Biomedical Engineering.
5. Once approved by the respective advisors, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of the senior year.

Program policies

1. After being admitted to the grad track program and completion of at least 90 credit hours, the student can start taking the graduate courses as technical electives for the BS degree requirement. For the graduate courses to be counted for the MS degree, the student should get a B or above for the courses.
2. The student in the grad track program will be advised and monitored by both the undergraduate coordinator (prior to completion of the BS) and the graduate advisor (after completion of the BS).
3. The student should choose a major research advisor in the semester that the student begins taking graduate courses.
4. There will be an annual review of each student’s academic progress in meeting both bachelor’s and master’s degree requirements. If the student fails to meet degree requirements, the student will be placed in a probationary period for one semester. If the student continues to not meet the degree requirements in the probationary period, the student will be expelled from the grad track program (they will still be in the general biomedical engineering BS program if all general biomedical engineering BS degree requirements are met).
5. Undergraduate students who have been accepted to a grad track option should complete all of their bachelor’s degree requirements and graduate within 12 months of the first day of the semester in which they begin taking graduate courses or enrollment in graduate level course work will be suspended.
6. The students admitted to the grad track option will be admitted into the MS program on a conditional basis. Once the student has satisfied all course work for the BS degree and maintained a 3.0 or higher GPA, they will be fully admitted to the MS program.
7. The student must enroll in graduate school in the long semester after finishing their BS degree and should take the remaining graduate courses in the following years to complete his/her biomedical engineering master’s degree. If the student did not enroll in graduate school in the long semester after finishing his/her BS degree those graduate course credit hours will not be counted toward the MS degree, even if the student comes back for graduate school in the future.

Program requirements

The student is required to take three of the courses listed below in the fourth year of their bachelor’s degree program.  BMEN courses that apply to the grad track, with corresponding undergraduate courses in parenthesis:

• BMEN 5007 - Research Methods in Biomedical Engineering ( BMEN 4007 - Biomedical Experimental Design and Data Analysis )
• BMEN 5310 - Clinical Instrumentation ( BMEN 4311 - Biomedical Instrumentation II )
• BMEN 5313 - Bioengineering of Cellular Systems ( BMEN 4313 - Cellular Engineering )
• BMEN 5314 - Advanced Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine ( BMEN 4314 - Tissue Engineering )
• BMEN 5315 - Computational Methods in Biomedical Engineering ( BMEN 4310 - Biomedical Modeling )
• BMEN 5319 - Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics ( BMEN 4319 - Cardiovascular Flows )
• BMEN 5323 - Advanced Biomedical Optics ( BMEN 4321 - Biophotonics )
• BMEN 5325 - Biomedical Nanotechnology Compatibility ( BMEN 4325 - Biomedical Nanotechnology )
• BMEN 5326 - Biomolecular Engineering ( BMEN 4326 - Principles of Biomolecular Engineering )
• CSCE 5050 – Applications of Cryptography
• CSCE 5200 – Information Retrieval and Web Search
• CSCE 5210 – Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
• CSCE 5215 – Machine Learning
• CSCE 5220 – Computer Graphics
• CSCE 5225 – Digital Image Processing
• CSCE 5290 – Natural Language Processing
• CSCE 5350 – Fundamentals of Database Systems
• CSCE 5380 – Data Mining
• CSCE 5400 – Formal Languages, Automata, and Computability
• CSCE 5430 – Software Engineering
• CSCE 5450 – Programming Languages
• CSCE 5460 – Software Testing and Empirical Methodologies
• CSCE 5510 – Wireless Communications
• CSCE 5520 – Wireless Networks and Protocols
• CSCE 5550 – Introduction to Computer Security
• CSCE 5555 – Computer Forensics
• CSCE 5560 – Secure Electronic Commerce
• CSCE 5585 – Network Security
• CSCE 5610 – Computer System Architecture
• CSCE 5620 – Real-Time Operating Systems
• CSCE 5650 – Compiler Design
• CSCE 5655 – Principles of Compiler Optimization
• CSCE 5730 – Digital CMOS VLSI Design
• CSCE 5810 – Bioinformatics Algorithms
• CSCE 5820 – Advances in Bioinformatics
• EENG 5310 – Control Systems Design
• EENG 5320 – Systems Modeling and Simulation
• EENG 5520 – Design and Testing of Digital Systems
• EENG 5530 – Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• EENG 5610 – Digital Signal Processing
• EENG 5810 – Digital Communications
• MEEN 5000 – Energy: The Fundamentals
• MEEN 5110 – Renewable Energy 
• MEEN 5112 – Nuclear Energy
• MEEN 5140 – Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineers
• MEEN 5150 – Thermal Energy Storage System and Applications
• MEEN 5152 – Mechanics of Composites And Foams For Lightweight Energy Efficient Structures 
• MEEN 5220 – Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
• MEEN 5300 – Advanced Thermodynamics
• MEEN 5310 – Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer
• MEEN 5311 – Convection Heat Transfer II
• MEEN 5315 – Nanoscale Energy Transport
• MEN 5330 – Combustion Science and Engineering
• MEEN 5332 – Air Pollution Control Engineering
• MEEN 5340 – Advanced Fluid Mechanics
• MEEN 5410 – Advanced Solid Mechanics
• MEEN 5420 – Continuum Mechanics
• MEEN 5440 – Finite Element Analysis
• MEEN 5510 – Manufacturing Process for Biocomposites
• MEEN 5520 – Advanced Manufacturing
• MEEN 5600 – Feedback Control of Dynamical Systems
• MEEN 5610 – Sensors and Actuators
• MEEN 5640 – Applied Engineering Vibrations
• MEEN 5800 – Topics in Mechanical and Energy Engineering
• MSET 5020 – Design of Experiments
• MSET 5030 – Product Design and Development
• MSET 5040 – Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology
• MSET 5120 – Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
• MSET 5150 – Applications of Electron Microscopy and Failure Analysis
• MSET 5160 – Creep and Fatigue in Engineering Design and Systems Performance
• MSET 5200 – Advanced Construction Scheduling
• MSET 5220 – Building Information Modeling
• MSET 5230 – Risk Management in Construction
• MSET 5800 – Studies in Engineering Technology
• MTSE 5000 – Thermodynamics of Materials
• MTSE 5010 – Bonding, Structure, and Crystallograpy
• MTSE 5020 – Mechanical Properties of Materials
• MTSE 5070 – Tribology of Materials
• MTSE 5100 – Fundamental Concepts of Materials Science
• MTSE 5200 – Advanced Concepts of Metallurgical Science
• MTSE 5210 – Corrosion and Oxidation of Materials
• MTSE 5300 – Science and Technology of Modern Ceramics
• MTSE 5400 – Advanced Polymer, Physics, and Chemistry
• MTSE 5500 – Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials
• MTSE 5520 – Physical and Chemical Based Integrated Circuit Fabrication
• MTSE 5550 – Materials and Mechanics for MEMS Devices
• MTSE 5560 – Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices
• MTSE 5600 – Materials Characterization
• MTSE 5610 – Fundamentals of Surface Thin Film Analysis
• MTSE 5620 – Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopy
• MTSE 5710 – Computational Materials Science

All remaining courses required for the Computer Engineering, BS  must also be completed. Other graduate courses, including BMEN 5800, BMEN 5810, may be applied to the Computer Engineering, BS  and Biomedical Engineering, MS with consent of the departments.