Biomedical Engineering

Website: www.bioen.utah.edu

Phone: 801-581-8528

The Department of Bioengineering accepts to its graduate program students with bachelor's degrees or the equivalent in engineering, life sciences, or physical sciences. Individual graduate programs are planned to prepare each student for a career in the application of science and engineering to problems in medicine and biology. Faculty have joint appointments in other departments in the College of Engineering and in the School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy. Career opportunities exist in clinical engineering (hospitals), biomedical engineering (industry and government), and research and teaching (universities, research groups).

MS Bioengineering and Master of Business Administration

Applicants must have received, prior to commencing graduate study, a bachelor's degree from an accredited institute, college, or university. While no single field of undergraduate specialization is required, applicants are expected to have mastered basic material in the following areas:

• mathematics (calculus through differential equations)

• physics (college physics with calculus, including mechanics and electronics)

• chemistry (organic and/or biochemistry)

• materials science (introductory course or strength of materials)

• statistics

• biology (introductory cell biology, human physiology).

Completed applications are considered for Fall semester only. Application deadline is January 15.

Each applicant must submit the following:

• completed Application for Admission to Graduate School form

• appropriate fee

• official transcripts

• scores from the General Test of the GRE

• three letters of reference

• one-or two-page personal essay outlining the applicant's background, interests, goals, and reasons for applying to the department.

• International students must also submit scores from the TOEFL: a minimum score of 575 is required for admission; students with scores below 600 may be required to enroll in English courses.

After satisfactorily completing the core curriculum, students who plan to pursue a Ph.D. degree enroll in advanced courses designed to enhance their knowledge in specific research areas. To help students select suitable courses, model program of studies have been developed which represent research strength in the following research tracks:

• bioInnovate

• BioInstrumentation

• Biomaterials and Therapeutics

• Biomechanics

• Cardiac Electrophysiology and Biophysics

• Computational Systems and Synthetic Bioengineering

• Neural Interfaces

• Imaging