Descriptive study of the courses offered in degree programs in biomedical engineering in Mexico

Abstract

This work provides an overview on undergraduate programs on Biomedical Engineering (BME) in 37 Mexican Higher Education institutions recognized by the Mexican Society of Biomedical Engineering (SOMIB). In addition to school affiliation, denomination and duration of each program, we classified 2,392 courses, according to the categories established by the Accreditation Council for Teaching Engineering (CACEI, Mexico). A second classification was made according to the topics of interest of the 38th Annual International Conference (2016) IEEE-EMBS. We are confident that this paper will serve as a guide to show the inclination of each of the undergraduate programs and point out its contents on topical issues.