With a full medical campus and eleven hospitals within a five-mile radius of our uptown campus, the University of Cincinnati provides its students with the resources to make significant contributions to engineering and medicine.
The Biomedical Engineering Program provides students with the knowledge and tools to develop revolutionary healthcare devices, procedures, and treatment strategies for the 21st century. Students are trained to innovate at the intersection of biology and medicine. Coursework covers the study of forces, motions, shape changes and the biomechanics of biological tissues and organ systems. Students examine healthy, diseased and healing tissues to create the next generation of therapies.
Hands-on training is stressed in biomedical engineering at UC. Students gain professional industry experience through the Cooperative Education Program with companies such as Atricure, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Biomet & Depuy, and with research laboratories in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Medicine, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Our nationally ranked co-op program gives biomedical engineering students real-world experience at medical centers and research and engineering firms across the country and around the world. Our ongoing research pursues advancements in many fields, including regenerative medicine, medical imaging, medical device innovation, and bioinformatics. Working with industry co-op partners like AtriCure Boston Scientific, and Johnson and Johnson Medical Center, UC students create innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing medical problems.
Our graduates choose from a broad range of careers, employers and work environments. Biomedical engineers can work in the medical product industry creating new designs, in hospitals providing advice on the selection and use of medical equipment, in research institutions and laboratories, in universities teaching and conducting research, in government and law performing product tests and establishing safety standards for medical devices and instrumentation, and in business serving as technical advisers for marketing departments of companies.
The UC Biomedical Engineering program vision is “To be a local and global community leader in progress and innovation at the interface of engineering and medicine to improve quality of life.”
The UC Biomedical Engineering program mission is to:
This is a great option for students who come in with applicable college credit credit from high school or who are choosing the pre-medical route.
The 4-year curriculum is a path you can opt into once you enroll at UC – just bring it up with your academic advisor!
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Event: April 8, 2025 12:30 PM
On Tuesday April 8, graduating seniors at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science will gather at Fifth Third Arena to present their final capstone projects at the annual Engineering EXPO. Presented by DRT Holdings, LLC, this the first year all undergraduate engineering departments are participating in the CEAS EXPO.
March 11, 2025
Olga Liaudanskaya, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, always dreamed of being a scientist. After finishing her graduate degree in materials science and engineering in Italy, she came to the United States for her postdoctoral program, where her research focused on the brain. This led her to a faculty position at UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. Recently, she was awarded funding from the Department of Defense for a project on the molecular mechanisms triggered by blunt and blast brain injuries.
March 10, 2025
Biomedical student Aidan Saylor enhances USAF anthropometry tools, boosting precision and reliability for military readiness.
