BME at WPI
Biomedical Engineering at WPI began as a graduate program within the Electrical Engineering Department in 1962. The program's strong growth during the 1980's, the addition of new faculty, and a substantial increase in research funding resulted in the formal creation of a graduate-level Department of Biomedical Engineering in 1988. With the increasing interest of undergraduate students towards a career in Biomedical Engineering, an undergraduate program was added to the Department in 1996. Support for this new undergraduate program came from both WPI and a Special Opportunity Award from The Whitaker Foundation.
We are primarily located in Gateway Park, but our programs and affiliations extend well beyond the borders of our main campus in Worcester. Many of our faculty are also actively involved with the WPI Bioengineering Institute (BEI) which is focused on creating close working relationships between academic scientists and engineers and medical technology companies to create new biomedical products in novel low cost ways.
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