Personalized Learning Plan
The concept of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP) is to tailor educational experiences to meet individual needs. Courses are selected in consultation with the student's supervisor, dissertation committee, and the graduate advisor to ensure adequate breadth and depth.
26 credit hours are required (approximately 8 technical 3-credit hour courses + 2 seminar 1-credit hour courses). All eight of the technical courses must be graduate level and taken for a letter grade.
Five of the eight technical courses (3-credits each, 15 credits total) MUST meet the following requirements:
- Biological or Clinical Sciences
- Basic or Applied Mathematics
- To meet this requirement, a statistics course is encouraged, but another mathematics topic may be approved in some circumstances.
- Students must take a course from three of the four technical areas below:
- Technical Area 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
- Technical Area 2: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering
- Technical Area 3: Computational Biomedical Engineering
- Technical Area 4: Biomechanics
Program of Work
The Program of Work is a form students complete to report their coursework status as they complete milestones such as the Qualifying Exam, Dissertation Proposal, and Final Oral Defense.
All versions of the Program of Work for the MS and PhD programs can be found on UT Box: https://utexas.app.box.com/s/gs6k3rj2w8dl8snpaom0bk23jwoezfjp/1/6096434030
Students are to complete the form that corresponds with their respective degree program and year of entry into the graduate program.
