The 20 Smallest B.S. Biomedical Engineering Graduating Classes In 2007

There are any number of reasons why these are small graduating classes.  The most likely is that the listed schools have only recently inaugurated their Biomedical Engineering programs.   A number of schools took advantage of the Biomedical Engineering program grants by the now defunct Whitaker Foundation before it ceased to exist in 2005.   The foundation [...]

Business: Is Corporate America Trying to Drive a Message Home to Academia?

The academic community appears is getting increased attention from Corporate America.  In 2008 a large technically focused business and a respected business magazine have both made an effort to make a statement to academia about what they value.
In 2008 Boeing distributed its ranking and critiques of 150 engineering departments based on the performance of [...]

Education: Parents and Students Should Insist On Seeing Student Outcomes Statistics for Biomedical Engineering Programs

Over the last decade there has been a shift in focus by regional post secondary school accrediting agencies to require colleges and universities to demonstrate how their programs positively impact there students after graduation.  The term used to identify this type of activity is “student outcomes”.  In my opinion the reason parents and students decide to [...]

Biomedical Engineer: Senior Engineering Position Requiring Solid Core in Traditional Engineering

I have suggested a number of times on this blog that biomedical engineering programs need to increase the level of traditional engineering content.  Here is an anecdotal example of a corporation asking for this type of experience for a senior Principal Research Engineer position. Whoever created the description had been told or had decided [...]

IUPUI Seeks B.S. BMET Accreditation in 2009-10 Timeframe

In November 2005 the IUPUI campus of Purdue requested approval of a new B.S. Biomedical Engineering Technology program.  In addition it requested the change of name for its long standing A.S. Biomedical Electronics Technology program to A.S. Biomedical Engineering Technology.  This application followed on the heels of a long developing realization by the program that [...]