Biomedical Engineering (MS)

WPI’s MS in Biomedical Engineering program lets you tailor your studies so you can delve deeply into the groundbreaking research that helps you make advances in healthcare. Working on project-centered studies and collaborative research opportunities, you’ll apply engineering concepts to medicine and biology in ways that challenge and excite you.

With extensive resources to support research, and in a region rich with biomedical industries, you’ll have the chance to partner with renowned faculty, peers, and local companies to solve real-world problems. You’ll graduate with original technical and scientific work so you can move into career paths as varied as law, nursing, and medical school.

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Curriculum

In small classes, research groups, and collaborative labs, students in the MS in Biomedical Engineering program have the advantages of combining WPI’s long history in engineering excellence with our commitment to advanced investments in the life sciences.

With our rigorous but flexible curriculum, you’ll be positioned to apply traditional engineering concepts and foundations in constantly evolving fields, such as healthcare. Requirements include course work in biomedical engineering, life sciences, advanced mathematics, multidisciplinary electives, a graduate seminar, and a thesis.

Research projects in our cutting-edge laboratories are diverse—from biomedical sensors and instrumentation to cardiovascular tissue engineering.

Graduate Catalog

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Research

Advanced, independent research with the guidance of an advisor is the foundation of WPI’s MS in Biomedical Engineering program. Students work in state-of-the-art facilities and develop close mentoring relationships with involved faculty who are passionate about research and exploration that will make a difference and provoke change.

You’ll be involved in applying concepts that might lead to the next big breakthrough of a device or a product that could be used worldwide and help people live longer, healthier, and more comfortable lives.

Graduate students work collaboratively on projects like these:

Designing, fabricating, and testing electrospun biomaterials into tissue engineered blood vessels
Creating a valve-scale 3-D in-vitro tissue model using heart valve cells
Cell-derived tissue to make blood vessels
A novel dynamic splint design for ankle sprains

WPI’s biomedical engineering facilities invite in-depth and innovative research in a close-knit, open lab environment, but in a location at the center of the region’s booming biomedical industry.

The Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park offers dedicated research labs and teaching facilities that provide the latest equipment and faculty expertise available.

Research & Facilities

Faculty Profiles

Dirk Albrecht

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Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

My research is in the area of microtechnology and neuroscience, with a focus on developing quantitative tools to study how neural signals govern behavior. My laboratory aims to investigate the molecular and genetic basis of neural circuit function and dynamics, to develop bioinformatic tools for analysis of high-content neural data, and to design rapid cellular and whole-organism screens for therapeutic drugs and genetic modulators affecting neural disease.

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George D. Pins

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Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

The overall objective of my research is to create bioengineered scaffolds to enhance the regeneration of damaged tissues and organs. Specifically, my laboratory uses biomimetic design strategies and novel fabrication processes to develop three-dimensional constructs that emulate native tissue architecture and cellular microenvironments. We use these scaffolds to characterize the roles of extracellular matrix (ECM) cues and topographic features in modulating cellular functions, including adhesion, migration, proliferation, differentiation, and tissue remodeling.

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Karen Troy

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Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

The ability of our biological tissues to adapt to their mechanical environment, and the ways in which our tissues are well suited for their own mechanical role within the body, is a constant source of wonder to me. I am interested in understanding the mechanical signals that are experienced within the skeleton during different types of physical activity, understanding what features of these signals stimulate bone to adapt its structure, and in developing noninvasive methods to quantify bone strength.

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Kwonmoo Lee

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Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

My research interest focuses on developing quantitative live cell imaging methodologies to characterize dynamics and coordination of molecular/cellular events related with cytoskeleton organization and dynamics. Using these methods, my lab studies how cells sense, react, and harness mechanic forces in physiological/pathophysiological processes such as brain development and cancer metastasis. Ultimately, I want to develop novel therapeutics based on our mechanobiological understanding of cellular processes.

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Getting Involved

You’ll find a welcoming and inclusive campus here. WPI’s grad students have a lively student community with many clubs and events, including intramural sports and an active Graduate Student Government.

You may participate in clubs on campus or explore the campus-based professional organizations like the Biomedical Engineering Society.

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After Graduation

Employers want WPI’s Biomedical Engineering MS graduates because of their extensive hands-on experience. With a rising need for people who understand the technical engineering implications and applications of medical advances, WPI grads advance to careers as physicians, nurses, lawyers, government consultants, or researchers.

Career Outlook

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