Information for Current Undergrads

Scholarships, Internships, and Research Opportunities

• BME Undergraduate students are encouraged to participate in a summer research internship each year. Please click here for some potential leads
• Need-based scholarships may be available from the department or school. Please discuss with the BME Chairperson, Undergrad Advisor, or your assigned Academic Advisor. Please also remember that the BME professor in each of your courses is there to help as well--catch them in office hours or after class to discuss how they can help you
• 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

Pre-med/Pre-health

Several students in each class are both BME majors and pre-med or on other pre-health tracks. This is entirely possible 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 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 and Biochemistry (Chem 32002) instead of Applied Chemistry (Chem 21000). In this case, Chem 26100 and  26300 replace Chem 21000 as pre-reqs for Bio 22900. This will end up adding 2 total credits to the overall required curriculum.

Useful Forms

Permission to take a graduate course form - please click here. Complete Part 1, obtain signatures, and email to bme@ccny.cuny.edu  

Independent study form - please click here. This is for 1 credit (BME 59100 or BME 59001), 2 credits (BME 59002), and 3 credits (BME 59003). Discuss with a BME faculty mentor of your interest, agree on requirements with mentor, complete the top portion of the form and return to your mentor. The mentor will sign and send to the Registrar's office so that a section of the course will be created for you.

Get more involved by becoming a member of the Departmental Executive Committee by completing this form