BIOENGINEERING OVERVIEW
UT Dallas offers graduate degrees in biomedical engineering as part of a biomedical engineering collaboration with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and The University of Texas at Arlington.
The UT Dallas portion of the program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to biomedical engineering, combining expertise in electrical, mechanical and materials engineering, coupled with the life sciences.
Graduates from the program are expected to be sought after by medical facilities, universities and biotechnology companies. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the need for biomedical engineers will increase by 21 percent through 2016. That demand is driven in large part by biomedical engineering’s promise both to improve health care quality and to lower costs.
The seven core UT Dallas faculty associated with the program have actively engaged in nearly $10 million in research in the past three years. Several additional faculty will be added in coming years, and new classes are expected to be developed in areas such as biological robotics, wireless bio-sensor networks and the use of nanomaterials in biological systems.
UT Dallas, UT Southwestern and UT Arlington already collaborate on numerous research projects through the Advanced Imaging Research Center, the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders and other joint research programs. The biomedical engineering program should further solidify the relationship among the three institutions.
