BMB 620 Capstone Project (3 credits)

This must be taken in your last semester of course work or later. This is a team based project. You should form a multi-disciplinary team. Teams with members from both the life sciences and the quantitative sciences are strongly encouraged. Your team may include members of industry or post-doctoral researchers. Non-multidisciplinary teams or individual projects will not usually be approved. Your team also needs a faculty advisor. You may have more than one advisor, but one faculty member needs to be identified as the primary advisor. Your capstone project may be based on a single project or multiple projects. Each project, however, must be experimental in nature and be interdisciplinary.

Your team should submit a written project proposal to the BMEBT program directors. The proposal should be for 3 to 5 pages in length. It should describe the project with emphasis on the multi-disciplinary aspects. The relevant expertise of the various team members should be included, and a clear project outcome should be identified.

The program directors will evaluate all projects and make a recommendation to the program coordinating committee. In the event the program directors plan not to recommend approval for a project, the students and faculty advisor will be notified in advance so they can address the concerns of the program directors prior to a vote by the coordinating committee. All projects must be approved by the UMD BMEBT program committee prior to student enrollment in the BMB 620 course.

All teams are required to present their results at the intercampus conference which is organized each year in May.