New program engineers better health

Biomedical engineering, a new department in the College of Engineering beginning this fall, might be the university’s most diverse department.

Biomedical engineering faculty members hail from other engineering disciplines and the fields of medicine, pharmacy, psychology and education.

They combine their expertise to define and solve problems in such diverse areas as neurological modeling, new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, biomedical sensors, cardiovascular system simulation, biomedical instrumentation, biomedical computing and signal processing, imaging, biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering and ergonomics.

For more information, contact the department, (608) 263-4660, or by e-mail: bme@engr.wisc.edu.