Make a difference in someone’s life. That’s what our biomedical engineering majors do every day. As a biomedical engineer at Michigan Tech, you’ll get to make that difference by doing essential hands-on research. Your research could include awesome projects such as studying the effect of materials on expression of vascular growth factors; microfabrication of biomedical temperature, chemical and strain sensors; or application of biomedical engineering in rural health care. You could even help out with our studies of bone metabolism and osteoporosis in black bears (which, by the way, received recognition by the national news media)!
As a biomedical engineering major you can concentrate in:
- Biomechanics
- Biomaterials/tissue engineering
- Physiological measurement
- Pre-professional health
Before you get ready to plunge into your biomedical engineering career, here are a few things you should know about the program…
- Students have the opportunity to learn by participating in faculty research during the semester and the summer.
- Biomedical engineering graduates have high success rates for gaining admission to medical schools and top graduate schools.
- The biomedical engineering department is developing programs with our local hospital for student shadowing of health care professionals.
- Due to its smaller size, the biomedical engineering department allows close interaction between faculty and students.
- There are opportunities to work on medical devices for the developing world.
With an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering, you’ll find work in a wide range of growing fields including the biomedical device industry, the emerging biotechnology industry, government/regulatory agencies, and hospitals/ medical centers. You and Michigan Tech really can make the world better one biomedical engineer at a time!
