Information for Current Undergrads

This is the most useful link to any current undergrad. It is the current curriculum sheet

Here is an overview of our program in the CCNY Undergraduate Bulletin

• Research opportunities may be available by directly contacting a BME faculty member whose research interests you. Our advice is to reach out to several faculty members to determine their ability to take on new students.
• Note that there are faculty in other CCNY departments who do Biomedical Engineering related research:  check out Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, the CUNY Medical School, as well as researchers in the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) on CCNY's south campus.
• Students interested in working in a research lab generally find a spot if they are persistent -- have your resume ready when contacting professors.
• BME undergraduate students are also encouraged to participate in a summer research internships to gain experience. Click here for some potential leads.
• The BME Undergrad Advisor, your assigned BME Faculty Advisor, as well as BME professors in each of your courses are there to help -- catch them in office hours or after class to get your questions answered.

Merit and need-based scholarships for current students may be available -- check out CCNY scholarships for more info.

The Grove School of Engineering (GSOE) Office of Undergraduate Affairs unit (Steinman 2M) also provides information about scholarships, internships and co-ops.

The CCNY Career Center (https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cpdi) hosts career fairs, resume workshops, etc. Visit the Career Center and look for notices posted around campus.

The following may also be helpful for both internship and job searches:  BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society): http://www.bmes.org.

The CCNY BME major can satisfy pre-med or on other pre-health requirements, and we encourage students who want to go into health professions to consider BME as a major. Dozens of our graduates over the past two decades are now physicians or other health professionals. BME pre-health students gain a well-rounded engineering-based education, which will serve them well in their future careers, as BME provides both a strong basis in human physiology and biomedical research. We believe our BME grads have an advantage in the systematic way they approach and think about patient issues, owing in part to our roots in engineering and mathematical modeling of biological systems.

BME students who are pre-health are encouraged to work closely with both their BME advisor and the CCNY Pre-Health Office to ensure they meet all necessary requirements -- and to do this early-on in their studies. Specifically, on the BME Curriculum Sheet, you will see this built in (Note point #5 at the bottom) -- BME Pre-health students must take the Organic Chemistry sequence (Chem 26100, 26200, and 26300) as their Technical Electives (which adds 2 credits to the overall required curriculum).  In addition, Biochemistry (Chem 32002) is taken instead of Applied Chemistry (Chem 21000).