The Engineering of a New Department

Students interested in the connections between medicine and engineering have a new choice of majors at the University. The Department of Biomedical Engineering, developed last year, brings together Rochester's historic strengths in those two, often overlapping, fields.

The new department includes faculty and students from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Medicine and Dentistry.

In recent years seven new faculty positions in biomedical engineering have been created, largely in response to student demand.

Biomedical engineering is the fastest growing major on campus, with more than 50 freshmen in fall 1999 announcing their plans to major in the subject.

In 1961 the University was one of the first three institutions nationwide to establish a training program in biomedical engineering. Four years ago a formal graduate program was created, and one year later the University developed a new undergraduate program. Its first three students graduated last year.

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