<p>Could someone explain to me the differences between BME and the biomolecular engineering concentration within the chemical engineering department? I mean in terms of cirriculum, what poeple tend to do with their degrees, prestige, etc. Thanks for the help..</p>
<p>i think its basically the same
minus 5 courses or something like that</p>
<p>I am currently enrolled as a biomol engineer. I applied as a BME and did not get in. BME is a lot more difficult than ChemBE, and requires a lot more biology integrated with physics and computer programming. ChemBE is broader and deals with gasoline, food processing, cancer research, etc. There are a lot of things one can do with a chemBE degree.</p>
<p>If you are not absolutely certian that BME is what you want to do, i would recommend that you declare your major as ChemBE. It will be a safe and broader bet. I'm glad I'm in that program.</p>
<p>Here are descriptions of BME</a> and [url=<a href="http://engineering.jhu.edu/biomolecular-engineering/%5DChemBE%5B/url">http://engineering.jhu.edu/biomolecular-engineering/]ChemBE[/url</a>] at Hopkins. In terms of basic curriculum, ChemBE's take some of the traditional ChemE courses such as Transport, Thermo, Kinetics and PChem (since their degree is actually in Chemical Engineering). The new BME curriculum teaches some material from multiple engineering discplines through classes like Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics for BME, Biological Models and Simulations, Systems and Control and the Systems Bioengineering (currently known as Physical Foundations). After that, BME's will pick a "focus area" to take advanced classes in - one of these areas is more EE material, another is a lot of Material Sciences and one is a lot of ChemE material.</p>