Professor Vikki Hazelwood is powerhouse mentor. Under her watch, 50 students received patents, a dozen more filed patent applications and a few launched startups--and that's just this year. Here's how she helps students succeed:
Amputation patients face long, difficult rehabilitation periods. A new collaboration between biomedical engineering professor Raviraj Nataraj, his lab, and the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic offers them hope--and a quicker, more effective rehab process.
Breast cancer afflicts tens of millions of women worldwide. Now, an exciting advance by a Stevens research team headed by department chair Hongjun Wang sheds new light on the conditions that enable it to multiply and rapidly spread.
Half a million people undergo dialysis everyday in the United States. The DiaMonD senior design team created a dialysis monitoring device that helps patients monitor their fluid levels, putting greater control into the palm of their hands. Literally.
The way you bend a finger could help protect your identity, according to BME assistant professor Ramana Vinjamuri. It's called biometrics, and he explained how it works at the Future Technology Conference.
Undergraduate Katie Van Orden leads a busy life on campus and performs exciting biomedical research to aid hand-injury patients.
Vrajeshri Patel studies how the brain controls complex hand movements. She uses that data to design models for non-invasive technologies that control hand and upper-limb prosthetics.
BME department creates leading neuroscience innovations and rehabilitation devices to improve stroke, spinal injury and other disabilities.
The mission of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is to:
BME offers students broad-based technical expertise grounded in engineering foundations, approaches and techniques for biomedical engineering design and design assessment, command of advanced biomedical design, simulation, analysis and project management tools used in today's clinical practices, effective training to contribute to multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams and the ability to take on leadership roles in industrial or clinical environments.
BME also houses modern research laboratories, and fosters an entrepreneurial environment that encourages students and faculty to pursue new technologies from concept through commercialization, while preserving the ideals integral to an institution of higher learning.
Through Collaboration, Impact
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has attained international recognition for its research in mass spectrometry, nanotechnology and in healthcare and medicine. Faculty and students apply their knowledge and skills to solve critical, real-life challenges.
The Center for Healthcare Innovation supports Stevens faculty- and student-initiated research and educational programs.
Research in the Wang Tissue Reconstruction Lab focuses on two areas: multifunctional tissue/organ formation and nanomedicine in cancer, among other projects.
The Vinjamuri Sensorimotor Control Lab conducts leading-edge studies in upper-limb brain-machine interfaces and how the brain controls complex hand movements.
McConnell lab is focuses on neuroengineering, electrophysiology, digital image analysis and biomedical devices.
