Mississippi State s new graduate program is the first biomedical engineering program at any level in that state. This is very exciting, says Baha Jassemnejad, Ph.D., chairman of the UCO Department of Physics and Engineering. It is the future. UCO is partnering with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and researchers at local biotech industries to provide students a quality undergraduate program, as well as opportunities for research and internships. Students can participate in undergraduate research with faculty members on and off campus in projects such as laser-tissue interaction and laser cancer treatment.
Scholarships are available for biomedical engineering majors.
The MSU graduate program will offer both a master s and doctoral degree in biomedical engineering. A small number of competitive graduate assistantships will be available for Ph.D. students. These biomedical engineering graduate programs build on a tradition of nearly 30 years of MSU research and graduate training in the field, says Jerome Gilbert, Ph.D., head of the new MSU program. As a result, the infrastructure and support are in place to launch them without the need for additional resources. The graduate program will complement and support MSU s new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, he adds.