Instructions for completing a course transfer petitionVersion 3.1 12/1/08
A full petition requires completion of parts A, B, C and D described below. Please complete the petition form below with table includedthat lists the minimum amount of information to be provided for each course. In addition to submitting the completed petition form with table, you must submit at a minimum for each transfer course a course description and syllabus which must contain a grading scheme. Course petitions that lack any of these will not be evaluated by the Graduate Committee.
Submit the completed petition and the supporting documents to the BME Graduate Program Coordinator who will ensure that requirements are met before the petition is submitted to the BME Graduate Committee.
A. Table Completion
- Course number and title
- List credits obtained. For courses taken as quarter, rather than semester hours, the hours must be listed on the petition as semester hours. Use this conversion: One quarter hour equals 0.75 semester hours (e.g., four quarter hours is equivalent to three semester hours).
- List grade obtained
- List instructor’s name and departmental affiliation
- List prerequisites, if any
- Indicate proposed core area (BME, life science, engineering, or quantitative) and explain why the course fits the proposed core area below the table (see sample below). Please note that for a course to count as quantitative, it must teach new math skills and concepts. Courses that simply apply math skills learned in a previous course will not count as quantitative.
- If available, please list a Purdue course that closely matches the transfer course and provide a syllabus from the Purdue course. You are responsible for contacting the instructor and/or department to obtain this syllabus.
- List supporting materials that you are providing for each course.Include at a minimum a course description and syllabus, which must contain a grading scheme, for each transfer course. You may also include samples of lecture notes, textbook, exams, homework, proposals, etc. to show that the course applies to a particular core area.
B. Course numbering system
Include a short listing below the table of the course numbering system for the university from which you wish to transfer courses. Please also ensure that this numbering system is printed on the back of your University’s official transcript. If not described on back of the transcript, you must provide the BME Graduate Program Coordinator with a webpage from your university or with documentation from your university’s Registrar which describes the course numbering system.
C. Course Description, Rationale for Proposed Core Area, and Comparison to Purdue graduate course:
Under this section, please list additional information that will be useful for the Graduate Committee in evaluating each transfer course. Please bold each course title, underline each subsection, and leave space between information for each course (see sample below). Here is where you include a course description (if not included on syllabus), rationale for proposed core area and comparison to an existing Purdue graduate course (if one exists).
D. Please close the petition with the following statements and signatures:
Please review the petition above and supporting materials.
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Student signature
For the research advisor: I have reviewed the following petition with my student and I support the transfer of these courses to his/her Purdue graduate degree.
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Research Advisor signature
SAMPLE PETITION
To: BME Graduate Committee
From: __(insert your name)____
CC: __(insert your research advisor’s name)____
Date: __(insert date)____
Re: Petition of Transfer Courses from __(insert University name)____
Course Number and Title / Credits / Grade / Instructor name & Dept. Affiliation / Pre-reqs / Proposed Core Area / Comparable Purdue Course / Supporting Materials ProvidedBME 510
Cell and Tissue Engineering / 4 / A / Noo Li Jeon,
Assisant Professor, BME / None / BME, Eng, or Life Science / BME 595E/BMS 523 Tissue Engineering / Syllabus; midterm and final exam; proposal instructions; my proposal
BME 430
Applied Eng Mathematics / 4 / A+ / Zhongping Chen
Prof, BME, ECE / None / Quantitative / MA 527 - Advanced Mathematics For Engineers And Physicists / Syllabus; some lecture notes and homework; final exam
Course Numbering System
This information is taken from the back of the official transcript from ______University:
100-400 = undergraduate courses
500 = dual-level
600 = graduate level
Course Description, Rationale for Proposed Core Area, and Comparison to Purdue graduate course:
BME 510 Cell and Tissue Engineering
Course Description:Provided on syllabus
Rationale for Proposed Core Area:This course is considered a biomedical engineering course at my MS institution because it relates the topics covered to biomedical engineering applications. In addition, it covers topics in both the life science (molecular biology of the cell) and engineering (transport processes, principles of material science, imaging) categories, which make it suitable for all threeof these core areas.
Comparable Purdue Course: This course covered similar topics to Purdue’s BME 595E/BMS 523 Tissue Engineering, but in addition to the engineering aspects, we also went through eight chapters of the Molecular Biology of the Cell textbook. BME 595E/BMS 523 Tissue Engineering integrates the principles and methods of engineering and life sciences toward the fundamental understanding of structure-function relationships in normal and pathological mammalian tissues, especially as they relate to the development of biological substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve tissue/organ function. Current concepts and strategies including drug delivery, tissue and cell transplantation, bioartificial organs, and in vivo tissue regeneration are introduced, as well as their respective clinical applications.
BME 430 Applied Eng Math
Course Description: Analytical techniques applied to engineering problems in transport phenomena, process dynamics and control, and thermodynamics. The goal will be to strengthen and refine linear algebra and ordinary differential equations skills, and add several new skills including solutions of systems of ODE's, Fourier transformation, Special function, partial differential equations, and system identification. By the end of the course, the student should be comfortable and confident with many fundamental engineering mathematical techniques.
Rationale for Proposed Core Area: See course description and the course teaches new math skills
Comparable Purdue Course: Purdue’s MA 527 - Advanced Mathematics For Engineers And Physicists I-constitutes a two-semester sequence with MA 528 that covers a broad range of subjects useful in early graduate engineering courses. Topics in MA 527 include linear algebra, systems of ordinary differential equations, Laplace transforms, Fourier series and transforms, and partial differential equations. These topics were also covered in BME 430 as you will see on the syllabus.
Please review the petition above and supporting materials.
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Student signature
For the research advisor: I have reviewed the following petition with my student and I support the transfer of these courses to his/her Purdue graduate degree.
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Research Advisor signature
COURSE TRANSFER PETITION
To: BME Graduate Committee
From:
CC:
Date:
Re: Petition of Transfer Courses from ______
Course Number and Title / Credits / Grade / Instructor name & Dept. Affiliation / Pre-reqs / Proposed Core Area / Comparable Purdue Course / Supporting Materials ProvidedCourse Numbering System
Course Description, Rationale for Proposed Core Area, and Comparison to Purdue graduate course:
Please review the petition above and supporting materials.
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Student signature
For the research advisor: I have reviewed the following petition with my student and I support the transfer of these courses to his/her Purdue graduate degree.
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Research Advisor signature