• BIOE 440: Three in-class exams (10% each, one in finals week), a paper (15%), one take home test (15%), and ~8 homework assignments (40%).
  • BIOE 521: The same as 440, except that homework will count for only 25%, there is an in-class presentation in the final week (15%) and there are different requirements for the paper, take home exam and some homework assignments.

Research Paper Instructions

Research Papers are due Wednesday November 13th (ignore the old date on the link below that explains the assignment in detail)

You should look at the requirements, pick a topic and begin looking for articles with plenty of lead time.

Instructions for the citation format are here. Using some sort of reference manager software saves a lot of time by allowing you to single-click download citations from sources like Google Scholar, and then use a single-click 'cite-while-you write' feature to cite any downloaded reference in your paper and have it added automatically to the paper's bibliography, in any format you choose. MSU has a free subscription to EndNote for students, click for details of how to download and use.