Washington University Department of Biomedical Engineering
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The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis was founded in 1997 and is one of the most rapidly expanding departments on the Danforth Campus. It focuses upon crossing traditional boundaries in a variety of fields ranging from tissue and cell engineering to computational modeling. It benefits from an extensive and collegial relationship with the prestigious and world-renowned Washington University School of Medicine. The department has 14 full-time faculty and more than 300 undergraduate and 80 graduate students. The department is headquartered in Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering, constructed in 2002.
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[edit] Undergraduate Program
The undergraduate program offers both a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering as well as the opportunity for a 5-year combined B.S.-M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering. Washington University in St. Louis does not offer a Pre-Medical Major as a course of study, so many students opt to fulfill their requirements via the coursepath offered by this undergraduate program.
[edit] Graduate Program
The graduate programs in biomedical engineering at Washington University are administered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering. It is ranked 9th in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional programs.[1] The Department offers the M.S. and D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. As of fall 2004, the Department offers a new dual M.S.-BME/M.B.A. degree with the Olin School of Business. A combined M.D./D.Sc. degree is offered in conjunction with the Washington University School of Medicine. As of 2007, the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering is offered through the department but is administered by the Department of Arts and Sciences.
Graduate studies are implemented by the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering (IBME), consisting of 5 main programs: Bioelectrical Engineering (which includes both Cardiac and Neural Engineering), Biomedical and Biological Imaging, Biomechanics and Cardiovascular Engineering, Cell and Tissue Engineering, and Molecular Engineering.
The graduate program emphasizes coursework, development of research skills, publication of peer-reviewed scientific research papers, and requires at least one semester of teaching experience.
[edit] Faculty
- Frank C.P. Yin, Department Chair
- Dennis L. Barbour
- Jianmin Cui
- Igor R. Efimov
- Daniel W. Moran
- Rohit V. Pappu
- Yoram Rudy
- Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert
- David Sept
- Jin-Yu Shao
- Larry A. Taber
- Kurt Thoroughman
- Lihong Wang
[edit] Senior Faculty
- Salvatore P. Sutera
[edit] Adjunct/Affiliated Faculty
- Kyongtae Bae
- Nathan A. Baker
- John Boineau
- Richard W. Brand
- Paul Bridgman
- Andreas Burkhalter
- Michael E. Cain
- Shelton Caruthers
- Eldar Causevic
- Thomas Conturo
- Robert Duesinger
- William A. Frazier
- Daniel R. Fuhrmann
- Robert John Gropler
- Stephen M. Highstein
- James Huettner
- Gregory Mark Lanza
- Daniel A. Low
- Robert Paul Mecham
- Tom R. Miller
- Michael Mueller
- Michael Pasque
- Stephen Petersen
- Jay Ponder
- Richard B. Schuessler
- Larry Snyder
- Joseph Steinbach
- Alan Templeton
- W. Thomas Thach
- Nikolaos Tsekos
- Michael Welch
- Mladen Wickerhauser
- Robert Wilkinson
- Patrick Winter
- Thomas A. Woolsey
- Dequen Zou
[edit] Joint Faculty
- Dora Angelaki
- R. Martin Arthur
- Philip V. Bayly
- Michael R. Brent
- Elliot Elson
- Joseph Klaesner
- Sandor J. Kovacs
- Garland R. Marshall
- James G. Miller
- Stanley Misler
- Ruth J. Okamoto
- Marcus Raichle
- William D. Richard
- Matthew Silva
- Gary Stormo
- Steve Thomopoulos
- David Van Essen
- Samuel Wickline
[edit] Research Faculty
- Geng Ku
- Konstantin Maslov
- Jingyi Shi
[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- Department Homepage
- Washington University School for Engineering and Applied Sciences Homepage
- Washington University School of Medicine Homepage
