What is biomedical engineering?Biomedical engineering (BME) is a multidisciplinary field that applies engineering principles and design methods to improve the interaction and integration of engineering with medical and biological sciences for improving human health and solving healthcare challenges.
What does the undergraduate major offer?The UK Pigman College of Engineering is pleased to offer a four-year bachelor of science (BS) degree in BME that will provide students with a unique set of qualitative and quantitative healthcare problem definition, analysis, and solution skills.
Who will benefit from the program?The undergraduate BME program is designed for students who aspire to engineer innovative treatments, devices, materials, technologies or processes that improve human healthcare. Outstanding students seeking careers in industry, the healthcare professions, government agencies or graduate studies in BME are most likely to maximize the benefits of this program.
What does it look like?This program begins with the First-Year Engineering experience, which grounds students in foundational engineering courses. After receiving acceptance into the biomedical engineering program, students begin taking required BME courses. The program culminates in a unique two-semester interdisciplinary Capstone Senior Design project that challenges students to creatively engineer a solution to a healthcare issue posed by collaborating industrial or healthcare partners.
Abhijit Patwardhan Department Chair
W. Davis Ferriell Director of Undergraduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering; Lecturer
