Guide to Graduate Study in Area VII: Advice on Curriculum Planning

Graduate Preparation

Fields of Specialization within Bioelectrical Engineering

Every graduate student in Bioelectrical Engineering is free to plan an individual program of study subject to the advice and consent of his faculty counselor and research advisor. The undergraduate preparation described above is an appropriate common background for many graduate students. In certain fields of specialization, however, it is possible to make some additional recommendations. The subjects listed below are organized into three fields of specialization: Speech and Hearing, Biophysics and Physiology, and Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation. Subjects marked with asterisks* are strongly recommended for all students interested in that field. (Note also that some of the subjects listed might well be included in the programs of MIT undergraduates planning graduate work in Bioelectrical Engineering.)

> Speech and Hearing:

Undergraduate Subjects:
6.021J Cellular Biophysics
6.182 Psychoacoustics Project Laboratory
9.04 Neural Basis of Vision and Audition
9.35 Sensation and Perception
9.59J Psycholinguisitics

Graduate Subjects:
6.345 Automatic Speech Recognition
6.521J Cellular Biophysics
*6.541J Speech Communication
6.542J Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics and Perception of Speech
6.543J The Lexicon and its Features
*6.551J Acoustics of Speech and Hearing
6.552J Signal Processing by the Auditory System
*6.555J Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
6.863J Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
6.864 Advanced Natural Language Processing
9.591J Acoustics of Speech and Hearing
9.601J Language Acquisition I
24.961 Introduction to Phonology
HST.718 Anatomy of Speech and Hearing
HST.720 Physiology of the Ear
HST.721 The Peripheral Auditory System
HST.722 Brain Mechanisms for Hearing and Speech
HST.723J Neural Coding and Perception of Sound
HST.724 Clinical Aspects of Speech and Hearing
HST.730 Molecular Biology of the Auditory System
HST.750 Modeling Issues in Hearing and Speech

> Biophysics and Physiology:

Undergraduate Subjects:
*6.021J/6.521J Cellular Biophyiscs
*6.022J/6.522J Quantitative Systems Physiology
6.023J Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems
6.024J Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
6.502J Introduction to Molecular Simulations
7.05 General Biochemistry
7.06 Cell Biology
9.01 Neuroscience and Behavior

Graduate Subjects:
*6.561J Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems
6.555J Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
6.566J Biosensors, Signal Processing and Biomedical Applications
6.581J Algorithms and Computational Techniques in Systems Biology
6.582J Molecular Simulations
9.373 Somatosensory and Motor Systems
18.085, 18.086 Mathematical Methods for Engineers I, II
HST.091 Cardiovascular Pathophysiology
HST.101 Respiratory Pathophysiology
HST.111 Renal Pathophysiology
HST.131 Introduction to Neuroscience

> Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation:

Undergraduate Subjects:
6.07J Projects in Microscale Engineering for the Life Sciences
6.011 Intro to Communication, Control and Signal Processing
6.013 Electromagnetics and Applications
6.101 INtorductory Analog Electronics Laboratory
*6.111 Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory
*6.115 Microcomputer Project Laboratory
*6.121J Bioelectronics Project Laboratory
6.122J Instrumentation and Measurement for Biological Systems
*6.301 Solid State Circuits
*6.302 Feedback Systems
6.331 Advanced Circuit Techniques