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Consistently ranked as one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the nation, Duke BME combines a hands-on educational experience and an interdisciplinary research environment that prepares graduates to be leaders in integrating engineering and biology to detect and treat human diseases.
A unique aspect of the program is the integration of research and education. Over two-thirds of the undergraduates are involved in independent study research. And the graduate program offers students early immersion into research. Current departmental research activities include biomechanics of blood flow, cells, and hard and soft tissues; biomolecular and tissue engineering; electrical activity of the heart; neuroengineering; and biomedical optics, biophotonics and ultrasound imaging systems. Duke BME faculty and students collaborate with many departments across the University and the Medical Center.
The department is undergoing a period of significant growth. The recently opened Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science. Over 30,000 net square feet are occupied by BME faculty, staff and students. The space provides new state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities for the department. In 2004-2005, we seek to fill three tenure-track faculty positions.
BME News
August 28, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. – An ultrasound probe small enough to ride along at the tip of a catheter can provide physicians with clearer real-time images of soft tissue without the risks associated with conventional x-ray catheter guidance.Duke University biomedical engineers designed and fabricated the novel ultrasound probe which is powerful enough to provide detailed, 3-D images. The new device works like an insect's compound eye, blending images from 108 miniature transducers working together.
Catheter-based procedures involve snaking ...
August 28, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. – An ultrasound probe small enough to ride along at the tip of a catheter can provide physicians with clearer real-time images of soft tissue without the risks associated with conventional x-ray catheter guidance.Duke University biomedical engineers designed and fabricated the novel ultrasound probe which is powerful enough to provide detailed, 3-D images. The new device works like an insect's compound eye, blending images from 108 miniature transducers working together.
Catheter-based procedures involve snaking ...
August 13, 2008
Stesha Doku, a biomedical engineering student who graduated in the spring, has been named as a Fulbright Scholar, making her the second Pratt student to receive this award this year. The program supports one year of research at an institution outside the United States.
Doku, a Charlotte, N.C. native, will begin her Fulbright research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in the summer of 2009, after completing her first year of medical school at ...
August 6, 2008
By Richard Merritt
For Annette Lauber, one of morning’s seemingly simplest routines was often a moment of anxiety.
She has cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that effects muscle movement and coordination. She can walk for short periods of time with the aid of crutches, but she finds her wheelchair to be a more efficient tool to use throughout the day. And while working full time for 30 years for the state of North Carolina, the last 15 ...
July 1, 2008
Professor Jeffrey T. Glass has been appointed Senior Associate Dean for Education, Dean Tom Katsouleas announced on July 1, 2008. He succeeds Tod Laursen, who served in that capacity since 2003 and will now become chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
"Jeff has the ideal background to help the faculty and the departments to develop innovative and exciting new educational programs that respond to the nation’s need for engineers that will be ...
June 19, 2008
Residence hall/laboratory receives state's first platinum LEED rating
DURHAM, NC -- The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University, a 10-person student residence hall for green living and learning, has achieved a top-level platinum standard for its design from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system. The building becomes the first in North Carolina to achieve that standard.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The 6,000-square foot-residence, designed by students and advisers, earned 59 ...
June 6, 2008
Seizures, the often frightening and historically misunderstood outward manifestations of epilepsy, have long challenged physicians and struck fear in patients. Although there are drugs on the market to control seizures, many patients receive little benefit.
But there may now be a reason to hope for some of these patients.
Though the technology is still in its infancy, a new approach to controlling seizures championed by five Duke University graduate students – four from the Pratt School of ...
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