Bioengineering - SUNY at Binghamton

Bioengineering from SUNY at Binghamton is a Campus Master Biochemical Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Program Educational Objectives Biomedical engineers work to improve human health through advances in healthcare and medicine. This goal includes advancing our understanding of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human injury, disease and the health complications associated with aging. We are living in an exciting time. In the past two decades alone we have witnessed, among numerous achievements, the decoding of the entire human genome, the birth of proteomic methods, the maturation of computerized tomography, dramatic advances in imaging and sensing technologies and the culture of stem cells and advances in biomaterials that may enable us to engineer tissues and even organs. Together, these achievements have dramatically increased the potential for improvements in healthcare. However, most of these achievements yet to lead to any substantial improvement in human health -- and addressing this is a major challenge for the coming generation of biomedical engineers. The difficulty in translating biomedical research advances to improved healthcare is, in large part, due to the dramatic shift in the character of healthcare problems in industrialized nations. Chronic illness, rather than acute injury and disease, is now the dominant issue, consuming the vast majority of healthcare dollars, personnel and facility usage. This situation will only worsen over the coming decades as our population ages. As a result, improvements in our ability to prevent, diagnose and treat chronic illness has become the primary focus of the national healthcare agenda. Accordingly, the goal of our Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program at Binghamton University is to prepare graduate engineers to face these 21st-century challenges. The last two decades have also been an exciting time in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. Advances is these fields are expected to play critical roles in our approach to chronic healthcare problems. Specifically, advances in our understanding of complex systems, that is, highly coupled, non-linear systems which give rise to emergent behaviors that are not evident in the behavior of the components of the system, provide us with a formal mechanism for addressing problems such as chronic illness. This is due to the fact that all biological systems are complex systems and their physiologic responses represent emergent behavior. The ability to model and analyze such systems will be an essential skill for any biomedical engineer interested in working on current healthcare problems. Correspondingly, our BME program provides students the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of: i) living systems from a complex systems perspective, ii) modeling techniques useful in addressing biomedical problems, iii) modern approaches to computer aided diagnostics, iv) data acquisition and analysis tools, and iv) the engineering design process pertaining to the development of modern healthcare products. View more details on SUNY at Binghamton . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Biochemical Engineering courses.