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The undergraduate biomedical engineering program at Wayne State University was introduced in 2010. The program currently consists of approximately 70 students as of the 2012-2013 school year. Admission to the program requires a seperate application.

History
Wayne State University was founded in 1868 and is located in the heart of Midtown Detroit. It is Michigan’s only metropolitan research university. Biomedical engineering has been practiced at Wayne State University since 1939 with Professor H.R. Lissner and Dr. E.S. Gurdjian’s research into the mechanisms of blunt head trauma and skull fracture. Throughout the 20th century, Wayne State University's prominent research in biomedical engineering is still used today in motor vehicle and sports equipment safety standards. In 1963 the Bioengineering Center was built for independent research, with Professor Lissner being the first director. However it was not until 1998 that the graduate program in biomedical engineering was established with it offering both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Furthermore, the undergraduate program was not established until 2010 with the first graduating class expected to graduate in 2014.

Facilities
The undergraduate program at Wayne State University has facilities for the graduate students and the undergraduate students. For the undergraduate program, there are two rooms where the majority of the biomedical engineering classes take place. The first room is known as the PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) lab where students are introduced to the field in a productive working environment that is used for presentations to an average of 30-40 people. The other room is in the lower level of the College of Engineering and most of the physical experiments are carried out here. Past experiments have included sutures (material used in medical stiches) to test their fluid absorption as well as their strength. This machine in particular is used for sutures to test their strength and elasticity.

Future Additions
In the future, there are plans for a new 93 million dollar biomedical research building to be used for the graduate portion of BME, with funding coming from the state of Michigan and other sources. The building will be finished in 2015 and it will be called the Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Facility. This building will provide many opportunities for future and current students to gain firsthand knowledge in the field of BME.

Curriculum
The undergraduate program is built on three principles that graduates are expected to have mastered once graduating: To be able efficiently work with in teams and apply biomedical science to application, to be able to design biomedical engineering systems and solve engineering problems that utilize the tools learned, and to go out into the workplace and further their education relying both on the engineering and biomedical fields. The program is based on a 4-year curriculum, which the majority is completed as a cohort. Throughout all four years students will take a biomedical engineering design lab course that allows real world experience from their freshmen year till graduation. It allows flexiblity for students that would like to meet pre-med requirements. By the time of graduation students should complete approximately 131 to 135 credits, with premed students taking as many as 142.

Faculty
Michele Grimm – Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program Chair
 * Degrees
 * BS in Biomedical Engineering – John Hopkins University, 1990
 * BS in Engineering Mechanics – John Hopkins University, 1990
 * MS in Bioengineering – University of Pennsylvania, 1992
 * PhD in Bioengineering – University of Pennsylvania, 1994

Biomechanics of neonatal injury, orthopedic biomechanics, and tissue characteristics using ultrasound
 * Areas of Research

Juri Gelovani – Biomedical Engineering Chair
 * Degrees
 * MD in Neurosurgery – University of Tartu, 1986
 * PhD in Neurosurgery – University of Tartu, 1990

Molecular PET imaging of cancer, central nervous system using radiotracers, genomics and proteomics, adoptive immunotherapy and regenerative stem cell therapies
 * Areas of Research


 * Heather Lai – Biomedical Engineering Design Lab Coordinator
 * Degrees
 * BS in Mechanical Engineering – Case Western Reserve University, 1996
 * MS in Mechanical Engineering – University of Illinois Urbana, 1998
 * PhD in Mechanical Engineering – Wayne State University, 2012

Corrosion and degradation of plating material on electrical contacts and finite element modeling of thermal and vibration properties
 * Areas of Research