Does Biological Engineering involve a lot of math? What if I don’t want to do bio lab work?
Biological engineering offers diverse options for exploring biological questions and also offers opportunities for synthesis of new things. Some aspects of BE are focused on measurements of biological systems behavior, particularly in response to well-defined cues, so that those systems can be modeled, further studied, and ultimately controlled at the molecular scale. There are also aspects that involve sequencing and modeling DNA and proteins, and predicting new ways for biological systems to behave. Individual projects in BE may emphasize either the mathematical/computational side, or the biological/measurement side of the problem. Most BE research projects include some computational components, and all include some biological aspects, so students studying BE get trained in both and learn how to do engineering based in biology.
