PhD
PhD
Biomedical Engineering,
Applying for Admission
Standard requirements for all graduate programs
- Application for Admission with $50 non-refundable application fee.
- Transcripts (unofficial): Uploaded as part of application form.
If International: Uploads must include all college- or university-level transcripts or mark sheets (records of courses and marks earned), with certificates, diplomas, and degrees plus certified English translations.
After admission: Official documents are required from all students who are admitted and enroll. Photocopies of certified records are not acceptable. International students enrolled in other U.S. institutions may have certified copies of all foreign records sent directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by their current school’s registrar office.
- If applicant’s native language is not English, verification of English proficiency
is required.
When sending TOEFL scores, our institution code is 6877 and a department code is not needed.
- If applicant is not a US citizen and expects an F or J visa: financial information.
- Applicants must also fulfill any additional requirements the department specifies at the time of application.
Additional requirements specific to this program
- GRE General (optional)
- GRE Subject (optional)
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement: Indicate within your personal statement the specific field of biomedical engineering in which you are interested. It is helpful (but not required) for your statement to describe how your interests relate to the areas of research of any faculty members you name as potential advisors in this form’s Faculty item.
- Coursework: Biomedical Engineering Prerequisite Coursework Form
- Faculty: Identify one or more faculty members in this department with whom you would like to work.
Admission Application Deadlines
For full funding consideration, students must choose Fall term and submit applications by January 15.
Program Faculty
Mehrdad Negahban (bio)
Large Deformation Thermo-Mechanical Response of Materials
Siamak Nejati (bio)
Polymeric materials, nanostructures ans coatings
Carl Nelson (bio)
Mechanical Systems Design and Analysis, Medical Robotics, Modularity in Mechanical Systems, Graph-Theoretic Techniques in Robotics and Mechanical Systems Design
Wei Niu (bio)
Apply Metabolic Engineering Principles and Synthetic Biology tools to the Microbial Synthesis of Industrial or other Value Added Chemicals from Renewable Feedstocks, Develop New Enzyme Catalysts and Auxiliary Functional Proteins
Angela Pannier (bio)
Tissue Engineering of Growth Plate Cartilage, Gene Delivery to hMSCs, Gene Delivery in General, DNA Vaccination Particles
Dongming Peng (bio)
Digital Signal Processing, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Image Processing, Multimedia Security, Cross Layer Design
Lance Perez (bio)
Health Care Monitoring of Medicare Patients
Max Pierobon (bio)
Molecular Communication Theory for Nanonetworks, Communication Engineering Applied to Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems, Biological Circuit Network Engineering
Jay Puckett (bio)
Building Information Systems, Software Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Big Data Related to Asset Management, Seismic Engineering, Structural Dynamics Including Aeroelastic Phenomena, Multiphysics Simulations
Peter Revesz (bio)
Database Systems, Constraint Programming, Geographic Information Systems, Bioinformatics
Mark Riley (bio)
Bioprocess Engineering and Biosensors, Detection of Pathogens in Drinking Water, Lung Cell Spectroscopy
Sangjin Ryu (bio)
Experimental Investigations of Multi-Scale Phenomena of Fluid Flow and Cellular Mechanics and their Applications in Engineering Systems, Breast cancer stem Cell Regulation by ECM mechanics, Biophysical Mechanism of Calcium-Based Cell Motility
Rajib Saha (bio)
Reconstruction and Analysis of Genome-Scale and Community Models, Systems-Level Analysis of Omics Data, Development of Genetic Toolkit and Engineering Metabolic Pathways, Redesign Photosynthetic Apparatus and Carbon Fixing Mechanism
Khalid Sayood (bio)
Gene Regulation Using uORFs in Yeast, Whole Genome Phylogeny, Characterizations of Microbiomes
Mathias Schubert (bio)
Nanoscience of Hybrid Optical Materials, Generalized Ellipsometry, Nanostructure Properties and Multi-Ferroic Heterostructure
Avery Schwer (bio)
Facility Planning, Project Management, Ethics, Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Construction, Investigation of Renewable and Sustainable High Performance Building and Community Applications
Terry Stentz (bio)
Physical work capacity simulation (ERGOS), Human factors, Ergonomics, Occupational safety and health, Infectious disease and biocontainment analysis, Productivity, Fall analysis, Leadership and strategic planning, Injury epidemiology
Nick Stergiou (bio)
Biomechanics, Human Movement Variability and Injury Prevention
Joseph Turner (bio)
Multiscale Characterization, Elastic and Stochastic Wave Propagation, Experimental Ultrasonics, Linear and Nonlinear Vibrations, Structural Acoustics
William Velander (bio)
Safer, More Abundant Sources of Biotherapeutics, Pioneered Genetically Engineered Versions of Human Anticoagulant, Protein C, Human Anti-Hemophiliac Factors VIII and IX, and Fibrinogen from the Milk of Transgenic Livestock
Hendrik Viljoen (bio)
Solid Phase Reactants, Thermal Stresses and Crack Development, Piezoelectric Sensors, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Theoretical Investigation of Errors in Polymerase Chain Reaction Process
Rebecca Wachs (bio)
Biomaterials to Treat Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis, Tissue Engineering of Intervertebral Disc and Cartilage, Controlled Release of Biomolecules
Clarence Waters (bio)
Lighting and Power Distribution Systems for Buildings, Building Environmental Effects on Humans
Tadeusz Wysocki (bio)
Wireless Communications, Information Theory, Antenna Systems, Channel Coding, Nano Communications, Modeling Biological Processes at Cellular Level Using Queuing Theory, Molecular Signaling, Gene Delivery, Targeted Drug Delivery, Metabolomics Networks
Ruiguo Yang (bio)
Nanorobotics, BioMEMS and Mechanobiology, Micro/Nanosytems for Cellular Engineering to Manipulate Cells Through Delivery of Biomolecules, Cell-Cell Interactions to Understand Mechanotransduction Under Physio/Pathological Conditions
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