Through the intricate world of biomedical engineering, you’ll acquire knowledge and skills to solve complex problems to advance medical technologies, treatment and diagnosis strategies. Let’s revolutionize biomedical sciences and our healthcare system.
Apply NowBiomedical engineering is a new, hybrid field that employs engineering knowledge in biology and medicine, providing an overall enhancement to healthcare. In this field you will be exposed to artificial organ work, automated patient monitoring, biomaterials design and sports medicine.
Real-world experience beyond the classroom.
Dedicated to encouraging the development, dissemination, integration and utilization of knowledge in biomedical engineering, where the leading goal is to foster the development of relationships between you and members within biomedical fields.
Read More : Biomedical Engineering SocietyOpen to all disciplines, EWB's goal is to serve our local as well as international communities through volunteer work to help create innovative, sustainable solutions to real-world engineering problems.
Read More : Engineers without BordersTBP is the premier engineering honor society, focusing on the top students in engineering! Our chapter, WV-Alpha, engages in professional development activities, community service, and helping you build a social network of engineers across all disciplines.
Read More : Tau Beta PiWork with the WVU Global Medical and Global Dental Brigades and travel to rural Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras and Ghana where you and a team of WVU students will facilitate medical, dental and public health tasks to help communities in need.
Utilize innovative approaches to tailor disease prevention and treatment that considers differences in people’s genes, environments and lifestyles. Save lives through the development of novel bioinstrumentation and imaging modalities that allow for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases. Play an essential role in facilitating healing, restoring function and treating ailments with the implementation of specific biomaterials to enhance, repair or regenerate damaged tissue.
Utilize principles from inertial navigation, engineering dynamics, biomechanics and kinesiology to develop algorithms and data collection protocols that utilize data from body-worn inertial sensors and other wearable technologies to quantify human movement and physiology in non-laboratory environments. Facilitate new research discoveries and the development of personalized interventions to help improve human health and performance through the measurement of human movement and health in the real world.
The Office of Undergraduate Research connects undergraduate students who have strong and committed interests in research and creative endeavors to faculty members, programs, and research-related opportunities that are aligned with their interests.
Get involved in researchThe biomedical engineering discipline is among the fastest growing engineering disciplines due to the rapid advancement of medical technologies and treatment and diagnosis strategies. In fact, many are claiming this century as the one that will revolutionize the biological sciences. The biomedical engineering curriculum is designed to give you a broad background in the areas of biomedical engineering, including biomaterials, biomechanics and biomedical imaging. The goal for these electives is to enhance your knowledge in one or more of the focus areas so you can be prepared for graduate school, any professional school, or a job in a specific industry.
This course structure is designed to prepare you with the biomedical engineering processes to address global medical challenges or to pursue graduate degrees.
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304-293-2111.