OVERVIEW
RESEARCH
FACULTY
We conduct interdisciplinary research across academic disciplines. In addition to lectures that cover the cutting edge of each academic field, we offer the following courses that are unique to our department.
Students can systematically learn the fundamentals of bioengineering in six core areas: mechanobioengineering, biodevices, bioelectronics, bioimaging, chemical bioengineering, and biomaterials. Students who did not specialize in bioengineering as an undergraduate can gain fundamental knowledge for working in the field of bioengineering by taking these introductory courses.
This course focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship and what is needed to commercialize technology seeds in the bio-medical field. The course consists of a mixture of skill-set and leadership lectures with a focus on team work. This group work culminates in the presentation of a commercialization plan for a specific opportunity identified, scaled and developed, by the group, over the series of lectures.
Students learn basic bio-related experimental techniques in laboratories outside their own research area. Our department includes students from a wide variety of backgrounds. It is extremely important for future research to learn new experimental techniques in the field of bioengineering, in addition to focusing on the research fundamentals of one's own discipline.
We allow students to count lectures from Graduate School of Medicine as completion credits. This education program is expected to be taken by the top students in our department in order to foster students who can become bridges between engineering and medicine in the future.