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What is a Biomedical Engineer? Biomedical Engineering is an evolving interdiscipline that has challenged the historical disciplinary barriers between the life sciences and engineering. While BME research activities frequently result in clinical therapies and medical treatments, the field remains intimately tied to the engineering disciplines.
Sometimes we like to characterize the BME major as the “liberal arts of science and technology” in an effort to convey the breadth of areas and subjects our students will experience as they move through the major. Graduates of the Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering program have followed career choices as diverse as regulatory agencies like the FDA, medicine, dentistry, public health, hospital administration, healthcare IT, healthcare consulting, medical field engineers, device design, patent law, technology start-ups, entrepreneurship, designing shoes for Nike, and public service through Teach for America. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that as a novel field with virtually no textbooks to date, biomedical engineering education poses special challenges.
Admission to the undergraduate program is through Georgia Tech and classes will be conducted on the Georgia Tech campus. Once admitted students have opportunities to conduct research across the city of Atlanta, including with researchers at Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and other research partners.
Why choose biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech?
Bridges Engineering to Practical Applications in Medicine & Biology
Fact: 2013 University System of Georgia BOR Teaching Excellence Award: Department/Program Division
Fact: Georgia Tech's undergraduate biomedical engineering program is ranked #3 by U.S. News and World Report.
Programs: Lattice Model Curriculum Design
Communicates & Works Effectively in Teams to Solve Real-world Problems
Fact: Problem Based Learning imbues students a comfort with complexity & incomplete Information
Fact: Senior Design class teaches and enables successful entrepreneurship.
Programs: PBL class, Senior Design, Interdisciplinary Capstone and Learning Commons
Outstanding Research & Analytic Skills
Fact: 70% of our undergraduates conduct research on an independent project of their own.
Programs: Summer Research and Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, President's Undergraduate Research Awards
Develops a Strong and Diverse Biomedical Workforce
Fact: More than 50% of our BME undergraduates are women.
Fact: Georgia Tech is the #1 producer of black, hispanic and other historically under-represented minority engineers in the US.
Georgia Tech was ranked #12 for Best Colleges for African-Americans by Essence and Money magazine among more than 1,500 schools reviewed.
Programs: BMES, SWE, NSBE and Mentoring program