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Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program
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Our Undergraduate Students are engaged in biomedical research
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News & Features
Sean J. Kirkpatrick BME Chair Announced
The College of Engineering announces that Sean J. Kirkpatrick has accepted a three-year appointment as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering effective May 10.
Undergraduate Expo April 15: Undergraduate Expo 2010
Biomed Teams win awards:
• Medical Measuring Device, Biochemical Breakthrough, Wood Boiler: 2010 Undergraduate Expo Winners Named
• Tech's Best Undergraduate Research on Display at Expo Today
• See Videos of 2010 Expo
  Award Recipients Announced for Sixth Annual ESC/BRC Graduate Research Forum Include several from Biomedical Engineering
Vlaisavljevich Named WCHA Outstanding Vlaisavljevich Named WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year
Biomedical Engineering senior Eli Vlaisavljevich was named the WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year, the league has announced. Vlaisavljevich joins Geoff Sarjeant (1992) as the only Huskies to earn the award.
Researcher Envisions Many Uses for Small Biosensors Researcher Envisions Many Uses for Small Biosensors
Picture yourself with an aortic aneurysm, a weak spot in the vessel that bulges outward and is in danger of bursting. Your doctor has fixed it with a stent, which is like sealing off the weak spot and putting in a new, stronger channel. But what if the stent leaks? That's a problem that Keat Ghee Ong, an assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department, is addressing.
Expo Undergraduate Expo 2010: Undergraduate Research Projects, Enterprise and Senior Design Results

About Biomedical Engineering at Michigan Tech

Biomedical engineering advances knowledge and develops new devices at the interface of engineering, biology, and medicine. It improves human health through cross-disciplinary activities that integrate the engineering sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice. The integration of biology with engineering is of increasing importance in all engineering disciplines.

Our program emphasizes research and education in tissue regeneration, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and physiological measurements. Our PhD graduates are prepared to undertake postdoctoral research; to succeed in academia, government, and industry; and to grow into positions of leadership.

Graduate students can work with major analytical facilities throughout campus, including electron microscopy, surface analysis instrumentation, nanoindenters, X-ray analysis, and rheometry instrumentation. Collaboration with staff at Portage Health, Marquette General Hospital, and the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation allows our students to explore the rural health-care applications of biomedical engineering.

Faculty and students collaborate with industrial and clinical partners. In addition, some are developing small businesses with the novel technologies developed through their research.