B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
The objective of the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering degree program at K-State is to prepare you for a professional career in engineering.
Biomedical engineering applies engineering principles to design challenges faced by the medical and life science communities. K-State’s biomedical engineering program can anticipate graduates designing medical devices and computer software for health care applications.
Each student must select an emphasis area. See the emphasis area descriptions below and refer to the Approved Technical Electives website for a listing of required and suggested elective courses. Each student must formally declare an emphasis area before graduation and complete the specified courses required by the respective emphasis area.
Emphasis areas
Sensors and devices
The area of sensors and devices focuses on the design of medical devices and systems found in clinics and hospitals, as well as the growing consumer market of wearable fitness devices.
Computation
Computation emphasis area addresses software programming and architectures to process, and act upon the growing volume of physiological data that originates from medical devices and systems utilized in our society.
Biomaterials
The biomaterials area concentrates on the design and development of biocompatible materials, including materials used in the construction of medical devices, physical implants, and artificial tissue grown and manipulated in bioreactor environments.
Pre-medicine
The pre-medicine emphasis area is customized for students who wish to pursue a biomedical engineering undergraduate degree prior to medical school and must therefore prioritize the scheduling of certain courses that will maximize their performance on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).
Faculty
A number of current faculty have extensive biomedical engineering backgrounds, having taught biomedical courses and served as investigators on numerous biomedical research grants, which includes the following:
- Steve Warren, professor; biomedical engineering program coordinator; director of the Medical Component Design Lab
- Charles Carlson, teaching assistant professor
- Caterina Scoglio, professor; director of the Network Science and Engineering Group
- David Thompson, assistant professor; research includes brain-computer interfaces and medical devices
- Ninghao "Eric" Zhu, assistant professor
- Affiliate faculty from ECE and other K-State engineering departments