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Old 07-15-2007, 09:59 AM   #16
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Thanks niceilike
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Old 07-15-2007, 10:10 AM   #17
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Would you say Rice's Bioengineering is geared towards Pharma a bit more?

http://cohesion.rice.edu/Engineering...ew_l%20(2).pdf

http://cohesion.rice.edu/engineering...fm?doc_id=7015
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Old 07-15-2007, 11:31 AM   #18
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from those links its hard to tell what the focus is, but the research focus won't have too much impact on the education, only on the research you participate in. usually within BioE they have concentrations, so see if those match your interests, and also check out the courses they offer.
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Old 07-15-2007, 02:20 PM   #19
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They have a concentration in Cellular and Molecular Engineering but BioE's Core courses are focused on instrumentation

http://cohesion.rice.edu/engineering...fm?doc_id=7005
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Old 07-16-2007, 11:57 PM   #20
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i wouldn't say that- from your list it looks like there are some tissue engineering core courses, thermodynamics is universal, and it seems pretty typical. there are 2 mandatory instrumentation classes, and then there seems to be out of the 4 that you have to choose 2 from the following:
BIOE 442*- Tissue Engineering Laboratory Module
BIOE 443*- Bioprocessing Laboratory Module
and the other two are mech/instrumentation. and then the electives are what matter-so it looks like a solid program for cellular, but the best way to do it, i think, would be to email some professors, or if possible get down there and talk to someone. also, bioengineering is bioengineering, once you do your undergrad, you can go to a school that has cellular/molecular as it's specialization and do your research in that field. but do talk to people at the schools-i'm just a high school student like you. according to the professor i was talking about these are his BioE suggestions:

Johns Hopkins
Univ. Califonia at San Diego
Utah
Georgia Tech
Boston University
University of Washington (in Seattle)
University of Michigan
University of Texas (Austin)
University of Pennsylvania
MIT
Berkeley
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Old 07-17-2007, 08:34 AM   #21
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Ya I was actually planning on emailing professors asking their opinion. Thanks again!
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