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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