Forbes Magazine published an article on the 15 most valuable college majors. Biomedical Engineering was ranked first. Follow the link to read more.best-top-most-valuable-college-majors-degrees
Associate Professor Jeremy Goldman and Assistant Professor Megan Frost (Biomedical Engineering) have received $459,600 from the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, for “Therapeutic Lymphatic Collecting Vessel Regeneration by Directed Fluid Flow.”
In the 11th Annual Michigan Tech Undergraduate Expo the 1st Place award winning team was Biomedical Engineering team sponsored by Boston Scientific. The project was “Bioabsorbable Polymer-Coated Metal Stent Degradation Simulation Design”
Team Members are Kristina Price, Brendan Daun, Thomas Faulkner, Erin Larson, Derek Yesmunt, and David Strobel, Biomedical Engineering; and Kelsey Waugh and Matt Gardeski, Materials Science and Engineering.
The advisors are Dr. Jeremy Goldman (BME) and Dr. Jaroslaw Drelich (MSE).
Project Overview
The next generation of drug-eluting stents may contain drug-releasing biodegradable polymer coatings. However, the biodegradation rates and
behavior of these polymer coatings will first need to be tailored to meet the needs of diseased arteries. As an improvement over existing methods, we have developed low-cost, simplified, and time-effective methods for characterizing the degradation behavior of different polymers. These parallel in vitro and in vivo methods exploit the properties of fluorescent molecules and utilize simple implant geometries to characterize degradation rates and behavior.
See photos at Expo Awards page.
The 3rd Place was won by a Biomedical Engineering team sponsored by Portage Health. The title of their project was “Portage Health Noise Monitoring Device.” Team Members are J. Ethan Lynch, Shaubhik Bhattacharjee, Trent Jansen, and J. Nathan Willemstein, Biomedical Engineering; and Lynn Giesler, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering. The advisors are Dr. Michael Neuman and Dr. Keat Ghee Ong.
Biomedical Engineering students also served on the Honorable Mention award for the Jaipur Foot Improvements team.
Team Members are Victoria Demers, Mechanical Engineering; Allison Lebovsky, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering; Paul Sturmer, Robert Strobel and Marcel Kerkove, Mechanical Engineering; and Stefanie Bass, Biomedical Engineering
The advisors are Dr. Gregory Odegard (MEEM) and Dr. Anil Jain, Jaipur, India. The sponsor was Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics.
Another Honorable Mention team included Biomedical Engineering
students on the “Cost-Optimized Prosthetic Knee Joint”
Team Members: Elizabeth Anne Dancy, Biomedical Engineering; Matthew Goldsworthy, Aram Kim, Laura Maciosek and Anna Miller, Mechanical Engineering; and Kelsy Ryskamp, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering;
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Odegard (MEEM)
Sponsor: Dr. Rajesh Malhotra, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Biomedical Engineering Students recently earned awards for their research presentations from Biotechnology Research Center:
Undergraduate Research: $150 Grand Prize Awards
Hal Holmes (Biomedical Engineering)
“Remote Modulation of Cellular Behavior with Magnetoelastic Materials”
Advisor: Rupak Rajachar
Hal Holmes, a third-year student in biomedical and electrical engineering, has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, awarded by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read More
“Tribute to César Chávez: Living The Legacy Banquet,” was held Monday, March 26, in the Memorial Union Ballroom, featured Marc Grossman, a longtime Chávez associate, and Uziel Mendez, an Hispanic student at Tech.
Grossman was César Chávez’s press secretary, speechwriter and personal aide and directed international media coverage of Chávez’s 1993 funeral in Delano, Calif. He still serves as a spokesman for the United Farm Workers of America and is communications director for the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
Mendez, a Tech undergraduate pursuing a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, will speak about his own experience as a migrant worker. He is president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Chapter at Michigan Tech
The Memorial Union Ballroom menu featured nopales salad, stuffed poblano chile (chicken and vegetarian), traditional “flan” and “tres leches” cake.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and its Hispanic Heritage Committee, Housing and Residential Life, Student Affairs, the President’s Office, Institutional Diversity, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, the Alumni Association, Student Activities and the Parents Fund of the Michigan Tech Fund.
César Chávez Banquet at Michigan Tech Page of pictures and video
For more information, contact Madeline Mercado Voelker, assistant director, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, at 487-2920 or at mmercado@mtu.edu .
If you are interested in earning your Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering, please join us on Thursday, March 22 at 4:00pm in room M&M610 for an informational meeting.
We will discuss topics such as:
Why earn a MS degree?
How to apply.
Thesis vs non-thesis MS
This meeting is open to all students, regardless of year (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors).
See you there!
SJK
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Sean J. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Michigan Technological University
301 M&M Building
1400 Townsend Dr.
Houghton MI 49931
906-487-2167 (office)
503-332-4246 (cell)
906-487-1717 (fax)
Assistant Professor Bruce Lee (Biomedical Engineering) visited the University of Minnesota Duluth on Feb. 16-18 to give a seminar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Prof. Megan Frost (Biomedical Engineering) traveled to Bethesda, MD Feb 1-3 to serve as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health on the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences (BTSS)Section Study.
We are currently accepting applications for PhD students in Biomedical Engineering: Learn more.
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