Freshman Year Sophomore Year Junior Year
Introduction to the field and the career choices.
Trimester 1: Biomedical Engineering: the use of existing technologies to engineer devices used in the biomedical field. This will be an introduction to basic human biology and the tools we have to study and repair our bodies. Career focus in the scientific research sector. ( Collaboration with NJIT Biomedical Engineering Department ).
Trimester 2: Clinical Applications: the technologies used in medical science including doctor’s offices and hospitals. Community Professionals give presentations regarding their specialties. Career focus on human and veterinary medicine, dentistry, and allied health care professions. (Collaboration with Englewood Hospital, New Jersey Institute of Animal Research)
Trimester 3: Laboratory Procedures 1: hands-on use of the laboratory equipment used to study biology. This may include glassware, balances, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, incubators, autoclaves, micropipettors, titration equipment, gel electrophoresis, and digital data recording probes.
Trimester 1: Laboratory Procedures 2: Continuation of hands-on use of laboratory equipment from the third trimester of Freshman year.
Trimester 2: Animal Research: how animals are used in basic research and in FDA testing. Establishment of a Critter Care Committee to oversee the animals kept on campus. (Collaboration with the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research )
Trimester 3: Bioethics - This expands the initial Ethics project that all freshman have had previously. Program includes role-playing and debates regarding a variety of topical bioethics issues; examples would be stem cell research, pharmaceuticals purchased from Canada, etc. (Collaboration with Hoffman-LaRoche’s initial Bioethics Program)
Trimester 1: Immunity and Infectious Disease - The rise of drug resistant micro-organisms and Pandemics. (Collaboration with the program fom National Institute of Health - NIH).
Trimester 2 and 3: Pharmacology. This will allow students to apply raw science learned in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics to the study of one of New Jersey’s main indiustries. The research, testing, regulation, manufacture, and distribution of both new and established pharmaceuticals will be discussed along with the mechanisms of action of many popular drugs. (Collaboration with Merck or Pfizer)