Enhance your graduate education by obtaining your cross disciplinary Graduate Certificate in Bioactive Interfaces and Devices. As the field of bioactive interfaces is an inherently multidisciplinary endeavor, this curriculum will yield scientists and engineers with the ability to transcend traditional boundaries in their professional careers. Graduate certificates increase your marketability and show potential employers that in addition to your degree, you have special skills and competency in the subject area.
The program consists of 10-12 credit hours and the students must be currently enrolled in a masters or Ph.D. program.
Required Courses – 8-9 credit hours
- GS 660 – Bioactive Interfaces and Devices Seminar; 1 credit hour, taken 3 times
- CME 599 or CHE 580 – Bionanotechnology: Interfaces and Devices; 3 credit hours
- MSE 599 Chemical and Materials Fundamentals to Electronic and Nano-scale Device Fabrication (1 hr) or NanoFabrication Workshop (0 credits)
- NS 609 Ethics in Clinical Sciences Research (1 hour) or TOX 600 Ethics in Scientific Research (2 hours)
Electives – 3 credit hours
- BME 662 Tissue-Implant Interfaces
- CHE 626 Instrumental Analysis
- CME 599/780 Synthesis and Engineering of Advanced Materials
- CME 599/CME 780/PHR 760 Drug Delivery
- BME 661 Biomaterals Science and Engineering
- EE/CHE/CME/MSE 664 Multidisciplinary Sensors Laboratory
- CME 680 Biochemical Engineering
- CME 599 Membrane Technology for Bio/Environmental Applications
- BCH 604, Structural Biology
- BCH 610, Biochemistry of Lipids and Membranes
- BCH 612, Structure and Function of Proteins and Enzymes
- CHE 522, Instrumental Analysis (non-Chemistry students only)
- CHE 626, Instrumental Analysis (Chemistry or non-Chemistry students)
- CHE 550, Biological Chemistry
- EE/MSE 569, Electronic Packaging Systems and Manufacturing Processes
- PHR 630, Pharmaceutical Rate Processes
- PHR 631, Equilibrium Phenomena in Pharmaceutical Systems
- PHR 760, Techniques in Pharmaceutical Analysis