Teaching -Omics in Engineering

The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has brought a new BioMolecular Engineering (BioE) program, an interdisciplinary engineering program which overlap the chemical engineering and biology skill sets. BioEs often design, engineer and manipulate the natural and artificial genome and proteome. Therefore, knowledge in the principal aims, technologies and statistical issues arising from the structural and functional genomics and proteome are essential for this major. Undergraduate students in the -omics in engineering course learn about the engineering application of structural, functional, evolutionary and comparative genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, metagenomics and interactomics since thinking at the molecular level is critical in biomolecular engineering. The BioE program has pioneered new and unconventional courses into the engineering field at MSOE such as the -omics in engineering course.