Facilities
Center for Biomedical Engineering provides space, equipment and staff support
for multidisciplinary research in the application of engineering principles
to problems in medicine and the biological sciences. Both the Medical Center
and the College of Engineering are about one block away. The Center is a
self-contained three-building facility (24,000 sq. ft.), which houses the
teaching facilities for the Biomedical Engineering program, the faculty's
research laboratories as well as electronic and machine shops for instrumentation
design and development. In addition to individual faculty laboratories,
the Center's shared-use and collaborative environment offers capabilities
that include: design and development of smart medical devices, servo-hydraulic
mechanical testing (compression, tension, bending and torsional capabilities),
synthesis and characterization of ceramic and polymeric biomaterials for
interaction with bone, image processing, ergonomic evaluation and analysis
of human motion, state-of-the-art measurements of parameters related to
pulmonary function and the regulation and dynamics of cardiovascular function,
stimulation of tissue growth and regeneration with electromagnetic fields,
and access to vivarium and surgical facilities for animal experimentation
and in vivo testing of implantable biomaterials and devices.
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