As an engineering school, we aspire to discover the unknown, educate students and serve society. Our strategy focuses intellectual efforts through a new convergence paradigm and builds on strengths, particularly as applied to medicine and health, energy and environment, and security. Through innovative partnerships with academic and industry partners—across disciplines and across the world—we will contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. Our highly-ranked department benefits from a longstanding, extensive and collegial partnership with our world-renowned School of Medicine. We seek to provide a first-class undergraduate engineering-based education to prepare students for a variety of careers. Major research thrusts are: biomaterials and tissue engineering cardiovascular engineering imaging technologies molecular, cell and systems engineering neural engineering

Because of their broad training and ability to think and understand vastly different disciplines, biomedical engineers are critical members of interdisciplinary teams working on the design, development, and utilization of materials, devices, and techniques for modern biomedical research, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Biomedical Engineering graduates work in a variety of fields including academia, medicine, business, and law. Companies in the biomedical and biotechnology industries number in the thousands in the U.S. alone. Biomedical engineers are employed by a wide variety of companies, including new start-up ventures, large pharmaceutical firms, government or industrial laboratories, and hospitals. Also, numerous students go on to earn higher degrees in engineering to continue their research, as well as medical school.