To provide our students with an excellent education that enables successful, innovative, and lifelong careers in bioengineering industries and professions.

The Overall Educational Objectives (Aims) of the Undergraduate Bioengineering programs at UCSD are to provide our students with a modern bioengineering education, consisting of:

A1. depth, breadth, and creativity in the central areas of bioengineering, its underlying sciences, and related technologies, A2. effective communication, learning, and teamwork skills that facilitate bioengineering practice, continued professional advancement, and adaptation, A3. a recognition of professional and social responsibilities, including sensitivity to ethical and health-related issues.

These Overall Educational Objectives can be achieved through the fulfillment of Specific Educational Objectives (E). As outlined below, each Specific Educational Objective (i.e., E1-E9) is directly relevant to one or more of the overall objectives (A1-A3). Our Specific Educational Objectives are to instill in students:

E1a.* a solid theoretical and experimental foundation in the basic sciences, including physics, biology and systemic physiology, and chemistry, that underlie Bioengineering (A1). E1b.* a solid theoretical and experimental foundation in the basic sciences, including physics, biology and cellular physiology, and chemistry that underlie Bioengineering: Biotechnology (A1). E2. a solid theoretical and practical foundation in mathematics and computation that underlie Bioengineering modeling, experimental design, and data analysis (A1). E3a.* a solid theoretical and analytical Bioengineering foundation, with core curricula in the areas of (1) biomechanics, (2) biotransport, (3) bioinstrumentation and bioelectricity, (4) biosystems, and (5) biomaterials (A1, A2). E3b.* a solid theoretical and analytical Bioengineering: Biotechnology foundation, with core curricula in the areas of (1) biochemistry and metabolism, (2) kinetics, (3) biotransport, (4) biosystems, (5) bioreactors, and (6) bioseparations (A1, A2). E4. in-depth individual and team experiences in Bioengineering problem specification and solution, and in Bioengineering design, where the core knowledge is applied creatively to bioengineering systems, components, and processes (A1, A2). E5. first-hand individual and team experiences in Bioengineering experimentation, including hypothesis formulation, model development, measurement, and data interpretation (A1, A2). E6. effective communication skills, in written, oral, and audio-visual forms (A2). E7. specialization and professional engineering preparation, tailored to the interests of individual students (A1, A3). E8. a strong education in the humanities and social sciences (A3). E9. a recognition of ethical issues in Bioengineering, exposure to contemporary bioengineering and health-care issues, and opportunities to gain community service experience (A3). * Please note that the Educational Objectives denoted with an "*" have a suffix of "a" or "b" to denote a program-specific objective. The suffix "a" refers to the Bioengineering program whereas the suffix "b" refers to the Bioengineering: Biotechnology program.