Engineering for Human Health
Scientific discovery aimed at improving healthcare, through interdisciplinary research and education
$ 61,000
Median salary of our 2015-2016 BME graduates
91 %
Undergraduate placement rate
45 %
of our biomedical engineering students are women
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In the News
Winners announced in 3MT competition
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Graduate students in the University of Iowa College of Engineering competed to see who could most effectively summarize their complex research pursuits in a three-minute soundbite that a non-technical audience could understand.
CoE faculty play critical role in multi-institutional biomanufacturing project
Thursday, September 7, 2023
A multidisciplinary team of University of Iowa engineering faculty will contribute to a $20 million, multi-institutional project to boost Iowa’s position as a leader in bioscience and advanced manufacturing.
Ankrum, Sander awarded NIH grant to improve wound healing therapies
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Edward Sander, a University of Iowa professor of biomedical engineering and Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in Engineering, and James Ankrum, UI associate professor of biomedical engineering, are co-principal investigators of the study sponsored by a new National Institutes of Health grant.
BME student wins Sharks’ Top Choice award
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Subin Erattakulangara, a University of Iowa PhD candidate in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Sharks’ Top Choice award at a premier meeting for the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in June 2023 in Toronto.
Announcements
Internship Opportunity
The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is seeking a full-time research intern who is interested in ophthalmology to assist in human clinical trials. A candidate who wants to pursue a graduate degree in the future would benefit from experience in this position.
New course: Biofabrication for Tissue Engineering
New course: Quantitative Physiology
