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Programs in Biomedical Engineering

Research

  • The Department of Biomedical Engineering is actively involved in Graduate and Undergraduate Research.

  • Current areas of active research include:
    • Biosensors
    • BioMEMs
    • Human Applied, Space, and Exercise Physiology
    • Bioinstrumentation
    • Biomechanics
    • Biomaterials
    • Heat and Mass Transfer in Medicine

More specific examples of projects and designs from Michigan Tech Biomedical Engineering students:

  • design of neurostimulating leads and headers
  • research of structural biomechanics
  • fabrication of prosthetic/orthotic devices
  • design of a clamping system for augmentative communication device
  • design and prototype assistive technology devices
  • creation of a computer database for inventory of hospital equipment
  • research for new products; market analysis, competition, and tests of existing products

Recent Research News

Keat G. Ong (Biomedical Engineering) has received $212,727 from the US Department of Defense, Army, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, for a two-year project, "A Wireless Sensor System for Real-Time Measurement of Pressure Profiles at Lower Limb Prostheses to Ensure Proper Fitting."
Undergraduate Research
Regenerating the Nervous System
from Michigan Tech Research Magazine
  Assistant Professor Megan Frost (Biomedical Engineering) has received $140,000 from NSF for the first year of a potential three-year project, "Novel Photoinitiated Controlled Nitric Oxide Release Materials."
To the Heart of Africa: Biomedical Engineering students on a mission to bring better medical care to west African nations --- from Michigan Tech Magazine
  Keat Ghee Ong (Biomedical Engineering) has received $74,659 from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for the first year of a potential two-year project totaling $148,881, "A Wireless, Passive Dosimeter for Tracking Mercury Vapor Exposure."
Biomed Faculty Dr Ryan Gilbert U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin announced today that work by Ryan Gilbert, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is being supported by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). More details
  BME Students win Awards from Biotechnology Research Center 
  Ryan Gilbert received $234,000 from the National Institutes of Health for a three-year project, "Acute Phase Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Using Hydrogel Blends Loaded with Glutathione and Polyethylene Glycol."
Students Travel to Ghana with New Medical Device Students Travel to Ghana with New Medical Device
Brooke Smith, a Spring 2008 Biomedical Engineering graduate is holding an infant heartbeat detector that could reduce newborn infant deaths in developing countries.
Michael Neuman Chair Michael Neuman gave the opening plenary lecture, "Current Issues and Future Possibilities for Biomedical Sensors," at the 4th Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in June. He also gave a pre-conference short course on biomedical instrumentation at the University of Malaya.
Biomedical Engineering Student Wins 1st Biomedical Engineering Student Wins 1st Place in University Undergraduate Research Expo
Biomedical Engineering Students Win Biomedical Engineering Students Win 3rd Place in University Undergraduate Research Expo
Eric J. Minner, Biomedical Engineering Eric J. Minner, Biomedical Engineering won a first place tie in the Michigan Tech Graduate Student Council Colloquium and a third place award in the Poster Session in March 2008
Jared Cregg (Biomedical Engineering),

Biomed Engineering Undergraduate Named Goldwater Scholar

Sophomore Jared Cregg (Biomedical Engineering), of Eden Prairie, Minn., has been named a 2008 Goldwater Scholar.

Matthew Barron Stronger Bones From The Lab? Human bones are the frame-work for Matthew Barron’s inquiry and imagination. A biomedical engineering graduate student, Barron dreams of growing bone in a laboratory and implanting it in people to repair broken and diseased bones. Featured in Michigan Tech Research 2008
  Jared Cregg and Sherri Wiseman win awards in Ecosystem Science Center/Biotechnology Research Center Research Forum They were selected from among the 30 posters and abstracts submitted by graduate students conducting research related to ecology, the environment and biotechnology at Michigan Tech.
Jeremy Goldman Jeremy Goldman has received $227,000 for a three-year project from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for, "Mechanical Stretch and Vein Graft Intimal Hyperplasia."
 

Dr. Keat Ghee Ong earned a Research Exellence Award of $42,785 for "In Vivo Tracking of Human Body Fluid pH with a Wireless, Passive Sensor"

Dr. Ryan Gilbert earned a grant of $20,000 for "Mentoring Program to Analyze Biomaterial Release of Therapeutic Agents in Modulating Inflammation and Improving Regeneration within the Injured Spinal Cord"

Aaron Maki is taking a close look at grizzly bear Could man’s best friend be a grizzly bear?
Aaron Maki is taking a close look at grizzly bear bones from Yellowstone National Park—to help dispel a human affliction: osteoporosis, a condition char-acterized by a decrease in bone mass and bone density, and a corresponding increase in porosity and fragility. Featured in Michigan Tech Research 2007
Dr. Goldman's research Vascular regeneration High Impact Research: Vascular regeneration
Dr. Goldman's research featured in College of Engineering News
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