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Biomedical Engineering

The Department of Biomedical Engineering offers a variety of degree programs for students with different goals. The Master of Engineering degree develop competence in the direct application of engineering to health care, for instance instrumentation, computer applications, image processing, and rehabilitation engineering.

On the other hand, students planning careers in research, advanced development and design, or teaching usually pursue the Master of Science degree, which requires a thesis based on an independent research project.

In the Ph.D. program, further advanced courses are followed by dissertation research in the biotechnology areas mentioned above, in molecular and cellular biology, or in the fields of bioelectricity, biotransport, or biomechanics. Exceptional students may choose a double-degree program which leads, after a minimum of six years, to a simultaneous Ph.D. and M.D. For this option they must be formally admitted to both the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Medicine.

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