Career Advice and Track Night Track 1 Biomedical

Career Advice and Track Night Track 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Track 2: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering Track 3: Computational Biomedical Engineering Track 4: Biomechanics

Track 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Focused on imaging, diagnostics and therapy through biomedical instrumentation

Track 1: Skills • Image and signal processing • Analog/digital network analysis • Software/hardware programming • Circuit Design • Data acquisition • Computational analysis of data in regard to living systems

Technical Electives (12 -14)

Technical Electives (14 -16)

Track 1: Companies • • National Instruments Hospira Flextronics GE Healthcare Medtronic Biomet Stryker • • • Arthrocare Intuitive Surgical Siemens Healthcare Philips Healthcare Zimmer St. Jude Medical

Track 1: Faculty • Andrew Dunn • Thomas Milner • H. Grady Rylander • James Tunnell • Chong Xie • Tim Yeh

Track 2: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering Integration of cell & molecular biology with engineering analysis; Address problems in molecular medicine

Track 2: Skills • Tissue engineering • Materials science • Construction of nanoscale devices • Creation of bioactive materials • Bioengineering perspective on disease and immune response • Modeling biological systems

Technical Electives (12 -14)

Technical Electives (14 -16)

Track 2: Companies • • Genentech Merck Pfizer Dow Procter and Gamble Boston Scientific Osteo. Med • • • Biomet Amgen Life Technologies GE Terapio

Track 2: Faculty • Aaron Baker • Amy Brock • George Gerogiou • Jenny Jiang • Nicholas Peppas • Michael Sacks • Jeanne Stachowiak • Laura Suggs • Janet Zoldan

Track 3: Computational Biomedical Engineering Use of computational algorithms to address problems in healthcare and biomedical research

Track 3: Skills • Design medical decision aids • Dynamic analysis of biomechanics • Thermodynamic modeling of biomolecular reactions • Image processing and interpretation • Computational genomics

Technical Electives (12 -14)

Technical Electives (14 -16)

Track 3: Companies • • • Ortho-Kinematics Luminex Assure. RX Diagnostic Hybrids Proscan Imaging • Novartis • IBM • Pfizer

Track 3: Faculty • Marcelo Behar • Kenneth Diller • Mia Markey • Nicholas Peppas • Pengyu Ren • Michael Sacks

Track 4: Biomechanics Use of the knowledge of the structure and function of biological systems through mechanics to translate into design of devices for therapeutic and diagnostic improvements

Track 4: Skills • Understand biomechanics and relation to the human body • Knowledge of bioheat transfer and thermoregulation

Track 4: Technical Electives

Track 4: Companies • Medtronic • Stryker Orthopaedics • Apollo Endoscopy • Zimmer • Smith & Nephew

Track 4: Faculty • Aaron Baker • Kenneth Diller • Michael Sacks • Jeanne Stachowiak