The Biomedical Engineering graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin began in 1969 within the College of Engineering. In fall 2001, Biomedical Engineering became a full academic department and now offers degrees at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The program first got its own building on campus in 2008. The number of faculty in our department started at 2002 was 13 in 2002 and averaged about 15 between then and until 2010. In recent years that average , the number has risen to 24 26 primary faculty in 20192021. Student enrollment has increased from 161 undergraduates undergraduate students in fall 2002 to 547 undergraduates 562 in fall 20182021, and from 62 graduates graduate students in fall 2002 to 100 130 in fall 20182021. The graduate program was is at its largest in fall 2009 2021 with 112 130 students. The graduate program has primarily been focused on Ph.D. educationtraining. Until 2012, the three technical areas of focus were biomedical imaging and instrumentation, cellular and biomolecular engineering, and computational biomedical engineering. In 2012, a fourth technical area, biomechanics, was added. Today the department is focused on expanding research in two areas in particular: neural engineering and systems biology.
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Computational Biomedical Engineering
Due to dramatic, multidisciplinary advances in molecular biology and technology, the first complete human genome is available. Advances in genomic technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is practiced; however, computational advances and a new kind of biological information science are required to achieve this potential.Conducting Conducting research at this interface of computational biomedical engineering, prognostics and diagnostics that combine clinical data with patient specific genotyping and molecular profiling have the potential to produce significantly improved choice of therapies for individual patients.
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Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems such as humans, animals, plants, organs, cells, and molecules by means of the methods of mechanics. At The University of Texas at AustinBME, our researchers apply engineering principles to understand how living systems function at all scales of organization and to translate this understanding to the design of devices and procedures that will improve diagnostic and therapeutic methods in health care.