Graduate Programs

Ph.D. Degree

Dental Biomaterials Track Core Curriculum

(The Dental Biomaterials Track core curriculum has a minimum of 51 course credits, composed of 39 required and 12 minor credits.) For descriptions of courses that do not appear on the list of graduate courses in this bulletin, contact the appropriate department or school (see list of web addresses below).

Required Courses (variable)
All of these courses are offered on the Indianapolis (IUPUI) Campus:

  • Biochemistry-Microbiology (3 credits)
    • B500 Introduction to Biochemistry (3 cr.) or
    • G959 Graduate Oral Microbiology (3 cr.)
  • General Graduate (10 or 11 credits
    • G651 Introduction to Biostatistics I (2 cr.)
    • G652 Introduction to Biostatistics II (2 cr.)
    • G504 Introduction to Research Ethics (2 cr.) or
    • G505 Responsible Conduct of Research (1 cr.)
    • G655 Research Communications Seminar (2 cr.)
    • J500 Instruction in the Context of Curriculum (3 cr.) or
    • PSY 608 Measurement Theory and the Interpretation of Data (3 cr.) or
    • R503 Instructional Media Applications (3 cr.)
  • Dental/Oral Biology (10-15 credits
    • G910 Seminar: Dental Materials (1 cr.) or
    • G910 Seminar: Preventive Dentistry (1 cr.) or
    • R959 Seminar: Oral Biology (1 cr.; taken one semester each year)
    • R956 Current Topics in Oral Biology (taken for 2 semesters; 4 cr. each)

Elective Classes These courses are offered by the Purdue University School of Materials Engineering on the West Lafayette campus; Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUPUI campus); and the IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences):

  • MSE 530 or MSE 230 Materials Processing in Manufacturing or Structure and Properties of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 240 Processing and Properties of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 335 Materials Characterization Laboratory (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 350 Thermodynamics of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 382 Mechanical Response of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 690 Seminar in Materials Engineering (0 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • G911 Dental Materials Science and Engineering (3 cr.; IUSD)
  • G912 Properties and Test Methods: Dental Materials (3 cr.; IUSD)
  • G913 Clinical Applications of Dental Materials (3 cr.; IUSD)
  • M527 Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Physics I (3 cr.; Department of Mathematical Sciences) 

Specialty Courses (In Addition to the Core Courses):
These courses are offered by the Purdue University School of Materials Engineering and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, both on the West Lafayette campus; Indiana University School of Dentistry; and Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology on the IUPUI campus.

Polymers:

  • MSE 525 Structure-Property Relationships of Engineering Polymers (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 597Y Polymer Synthesis (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 597B-A&AE 590M Manufacturing of Advanced Composites (3 cr.; West Lafayette)

6 credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Ceramics:

  • MSE 510 Microstructural Characterization Techniques (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 512 Powder Processing (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 523 Physical Ceramics (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 556 Fracture of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)

3 credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Metals:

  • MSE 508 Phase Transformation in Solids (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 510 Microstructural Characterization Techniques (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • MSE 522 Rate Phenomena in Process Metallurgy (3 cr.; West Lafayette)

6 credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Biomechanics:

  • BME 595C Skeletal Biomechanics (3 cr.; IUPUI)
  • BME 595J Molecular, Cellular Biomechanics (3 cr.; IUPUI)
  • MSE 556 Fracture of Materials (3 cr.; West Lafayette)

6 credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Tissue Engineering:

  • BME 595E Tissue Engineering (3 cr.; West Lafayette)
  • BMS 523 Tissue Engineering (3 cr.; West Lafayette) 
  • BME 601 Principles of Biomedical Engineering I (3 cr.; IUPUI)
  • BME 602 Principles of Biomedical Engineering II (3 cr.; IUPUI)
  • BME 595B Biomolecular Engineering (3 cr.; IUPUI)

Additional information for Purdue University and IUPUI courses is available at the following links:

Purdue University School of Materials Engineering

IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology

IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences

Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

IUPUI Schools and Departments

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