The biomedical engineering program was established in 1974 as a joint program between UT Southwestern and UT Arlington and became a division of the UT Southwestern Department of Surgery in 1994. The mission of the biomedical engineering division is to assist the faculty and staff of all surgery divisions in their research and educational activities, to educate and train biomedical engineering graduate students at the M.S. and Ph.D. degree levels, and to develop an internationally recognized program of research. Dr. Robert C. Eberhart is chairman of the joint biomedical engineering program at UT Southwestern and UT Arlington. The program graduates 15 to 20 students annually.
All graduates get excellent jobs in industry or academia.
The graduate program in biomedical engineering is administered jointly by Southwestern Graduate School at UT Southwestern and the College of Engineering at UT Arlington. Degrees are awarded jointly by both institutions. At the master's level, the program emphasizes preparation of students for careers in industry and medicine. At the doctoral level, the program emphasizes preparation for careers in research and academia. The 37 credit-hour program leading to the master's degree normally takes two years.