Biomedical Product Design & Development
BIOMEDICAL PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Directors:
Lisa Friis, Ph.D.
Sara Wilson, Ph.D.
Design and development of new medical products requires advanced bioengineering expertise as well as an understanding of clinical applications, business considerations and regulatory aspects of the medical field. Advanced engineering skills must interface with clinical needs and requirements.
The Biomedical Product Design and Development Track combines graduate-level research and coursework with practical exposure to these clinical, business and regulatory processes in a professional, collaborative environment.
Students use their new understanding of market-driven forces to plan and execute their research with end-driven methods and an understanding of how their research results could be applied to development of a biomedical product. They not only work with their own basic and applied research, but also with other researchers in the KU Bioengineering community.
Medical products to be developed can include diagnostic tools, interventional and therapeutic devices, imaging equipment and methods, and biomaterials. This track includes a course in biomedical product development to introduce basic concepts of design, quality system regulations, regulatory aspects and entrepreneurship.
Required courses in engineering design methods teach students how to successfully complete applied research. A clinical or industrial preceptorship is required to give students practical exposure to applied biomedical research and development. Students completing this track will be prepared to apply their product-driven education either in industrial research and development, in a regulatory agency, or in academia interfacing with industry.
Track Faculty
Titles
-Dean, School of Engineering
-Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Associated Tracks
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Biomedical Robots
-Applied Artificial Intelligence
Titles
-Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Associated Tracks
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Enhancement of Transportation Related Technologies
-Design, Development and Testing of Unusual Uninhabited Aerial
Vehicles
-Missiles, Munitions, and Adaptive Aerostructures
Titles
-Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
-Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
-Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests
-Nanoparticles and Colloids in Pharmaceuticals and Biomedicine
Titles
-Associate Professor, Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences & Disorders
-Courtesy Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Associated Tracks
-Computational Bioengineering
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
- Adaptive signal processing for neuroscience
- Neuroengineering
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Brain-computer interface
- Speech and communication neuroscience
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Tissue Mechanics
-Computational Joint Mechanics
Associated Tracks
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Structural Biomaterials
-Spine Biomechanics
-Design and Testing of Medical Devices
Associated Tracks
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
-Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests
-Biomimetic Materials
-Hydrogels
-Tissue Engineering
-Drug Delivery
-Bioprocessing
Titles
-Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Optical/RF Measurement and Bioscensors
-Novel Photonic Devices
-Optical Communication Systems
Titles
-Assistant Professor, Speech-Language-Hearing: Science & Disorders
Associated Tracks
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
Research Interests
-signal processing, binaural hearing mechanisms and psychoacoustics; development of speech coding strategies and their application to cochlear implants
Titles
-Associate Professor, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Associated Tracks
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Human Sensorimotor Control and Disorders
-Stroke Rehabilitation
-Sports Injury Rehabilitation
Titles
-Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associated Tracks
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Effects of Age and Disorders on the Biomechanics of Balance, Gait, and Motor Control
Titles
-Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
-Director, Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry
Associated Tracks
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Microfluidics
-Biosensors and lab-on-a-chip devices
Titles
-Associate Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering
-Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associated Tracks
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Applications of Biomechanics and Machine Design
-Biomechanics Testing Machines and Experimental Designs
-Kinematic Joint Studies
-Wear of Artificial Components
-Testing and Evaluation of Prosthetic Devices
Titles
-Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Nano-micro-macro mechanics of calcified and soft tissues
-Constitutive modeling and computational methods
-Scanning acoustic microscopy and ultrasonic testing
Titles
-Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
-Director, Landon Center on Aging
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Neural Mechanisms of Recovery after Brain Injury
-implantable Devices for Brain Plasticity
- Track Director, Computational Bioengineering
- Associate Professor, Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci.
Associated Tracks
-Computational Bioengineering
-Bioimaging
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
-Computational Medicine
-Computational Surgery
-Computational Anatomy
-Computational Biomechanics
-Patient-Specific Model and Mesh Generation
-Image Processing
Titles
-Chair, Division of Biomedical Sciences
-Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry
-University of Southern California
Associated Tracks
-Biomedical Sciences with special training in Pathology and Biomaterials
Research Interests
-Amplifying cell signals for potentially lower cost stem cell interventions
- Director, Institute for Bioengineering Research
- Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor, Mech. Eng.
Associated Tracks
-Bioimaging
-Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
Research Interests
Professor Spencer and her research team are designing, synthesizing, and developing novel biomaterials for the repair and replacement of mineralized tissues. Under in vivo conditions, failure of a repair or replacement generally begins at the biomaterial/tissue interface and thus, a key aspect of our work is understanding the fundamental phenomena that control biological interactions at material interfaces.
- Track Co-Director, Biomedical Product Design & Dev.
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associated Tracks
-Biomechanics & Neural Engineering
-Biomedical Product Design & Development
-Computational Bioengineering
Research Interests
-Lumbar Spine Coordination and Control
-Joint Dynamics and Stability