BME at a Glance

Education

U-M BME is one of the largest BME graduate program in the U.S. and has awarded more graduate degrees than any other BME department in the country.
U-M is one of the only universities with top-ranked engineering, medical, and business schools on the same campus.
U-M BME is ranked #7 in undergraduate education by US News and World Report 2009.
U-M BME is ranked #10 in graduate education by US News and World Report 2007.
U-M BME is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), one of only 41 BME Departments to achieve ABET accreditation.
U-M BME has six graduate concentrations: bioelectrics, biomaterials, biomechanics, biotechnology, biomedical imaging, and ergonomics and rehabilitation engineering.
U-M BME has combined undergraduate/graduate program in one of three concentrations: biochemical, bioelectrics, biomechanics.

Research

U-M BME’s new Lurie Biomedical Engineering building includes state-of-the art research facilities for our faculty and students with access to a variety of biomedical labs throughout the U-M College of Engineering and the Medical School.
We are the home of the NIH-funded Center for Neural Communication.
We were recently awarded a $4.58 million Wallace H. Coulter Translational Research Award.
Every core faculty member is involved in translational research with distinguished medical clinicians on a variety of projects.
We are consistently ranked in the top ten for NIH research funding.
U-M BME has the sixth-highest total research expenditures of all BME departments.
U-M BME has the third-highest research expenditures per faculty member of all BME departments.

Personnel