Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) seeks to transform healthcare for all by providing impactful, enabling, and inclusive education and research at the intersection of quantitative engineering and biomedicine.

Transforming healthcare

Programs

Undergraduate

Additional major: Biomedical Engineering

Master’s

Ph.D.

BME graduates go on to...

Work at companies like:

Allegheny General Hospital
Bayer
Deloitte
General Electric
Google
Johnson and Johnson
L'Oreal
Medtronic
Merck
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Pursue graduate degrees or careers in academia at universities like:

Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ohio State University
University of Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt University

Research areas

Biomaterials and nanotechnology

Biomechanics

Biomedical imaging

Cardiopulmonary engineering

Cell and tissue engineering

Computational biomedical engineering

Medical devices and robotics

Neural engineering

News

Jun 13

News & Events

Engineering students awarded Fulbright Scholarships

Six students and alumni from the College of Engineering will research and study abroad on Fulbright program scholarships.

For the first time, researchers successfully integrated a novel focused ultrasound stimulation to realize bidirectional BCI that both encodes and decodes brain waves using machine learning.

Breakthrough approach enables bidirectional BCI functionality

May 16

News & Events

Undergraduates present research at Meeting of the Minds 2024

Engineering undergraduate students had a wonderful showing at Meeting of the Minds, displaying posters, giving presentations, and demonstrating projects they have worked on this past academic year.

Apr 30

Artificial Intelligence

Refined AI approach improves noninvasive BCI performance

Researchers used AI technology to improve the decoding of human intention and control a continuously moving virtual object all by thinking about it, with unmatched performance.

Apr 17

News & Events

Engineering faculty awarded professorships

Carnegie Mellon University has awarded professorships to five exceptional faculty members in the College of Engineering.

Apr 15

News & Events

Inaugural alumni awards celebrate success and service

On April 11, distinguished guests from across the university and alumni communities, gathered in Scaife Hall to honor eight individuals whose leadership, creativity, and volunteerism underscore what can be achieved with an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mar 25

Health & Biomedicine

How does learning something new not overwrite what we know?

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh examine what happens in the brain when it’s presented with learning a new task, but also asked to recall a familiar one.

Research paper

Using DNA origami, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have developed a synthetic cell armor to protect cells during the stress of clinical practice.

Safety first: DNA armor protects regenerative medicine

Nov 20

Energy & Environment

Dowd Fellowship encourages ambitious student research

Four Ph.D. students in the College of Engineering have received funding to pursue research on valuable, relatively unexplored topics.

Nov 14

Health & Biomedicine

Bringing donor organs back to life

A new platform aims to discover novel biomarkers to evaluate organ quality after donation, but before transplantation, and reveal new therapeutic targets to improve donor organ function.

Research paper

Nov 9

Health & Biomedicine

Boosting oxygenation for transplanted cell-based therapies

To advance cell-based therapies, researchers have identified a novel device that makes on-site oxygen for biological cells transplanted inside the body.

Oct 23

Health & Biomedicine

Curing cancer is not enough

Colette Bilynsky pursues both cancer research and health policy to ensure that potential cures are affordable and accessible to all.

Carnegie Mellon researchers receive funding from the Manufacturing Futures Institute to continue work on 3D micro-ice printing for medical applications.

3D micro-ice printing for medical applications

Oct 4

Health & Biomedicine

Curating sustainable meat alternatives

Using cellular agriculture, the Abbott lab is working on a sustainable meat alternative that is safe and tastes good, without needing to sacrifice any animals.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

ARPA-H fast tracks development of new cancer implant tech

ARPA-H has awarded $45 million to a multi-institutional team of researchers to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths.

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Relationships are key to the research and the researchers

Zeynep Ozkaya’s work in Jana Kainerstorfer’s biophotonicslab has helped her to better understand the signal processing principles she is learning in her electrical engineering courses.

Aug 25

Robotics

Student works on tiny bio robots

Lameck Beni, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, conducted research on small biodegradable robots that have important medical applications.

Jul 31

News & Events

2023 Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced

Xi (Charlie) Ren, Victoria Webster-Wood, and Ding Zhao have received the honor for their contributions to their respective fields.