Attached to this Description Programs of Study Biomedical engineering is both an education and career choice. Qualified students are admitted to the Department of Biomedical Engineering for graduate work.
Program is a nonthesis degree intended for professional practice.
Each graduate student develops an individual plan of study in consultation with a faculty adviser. Three concentrations for graduate study are available. The electrical concentration focuses on computing and signal processing applications to such problems as online processing of patient data and instrumentation for measurement of physiological parameters. In the materials area, students address problems associated with the relationships between biomaterials properties and cellular responses at the tissue-biomaterial interface. In the biomechanics area, key research problems include biomechanics of cells and tissues in the vascular and musculoskeletal systems, stress transfer at the bone-implant interface, and computer modeling of the biomechanics of synovial joints.