The Department of Bioengineering combines hands-on experience with the solid fundamentals that students need
to advance themselves in research, medicine, and industry. The
Department has a long-standing and unique relationship with the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other academic departments
at the University of Pittsburgh as well as neighboring Carnegie Mellon
University. Our faculty are shared with these organizations, offering
our graduate and undergraduate students access to state-of-the-art
facilities and a wide array of research opportunities. We currently have
190 graduate students who are advised by some 100 different faculty
advisers, pursuing graduate research across 17 Departments and five Schools. Our undergraduate class-size of approximately 50 students per
year ensures close student-faculty interactions in the classroom and the
laboratory.
The main engineering building is located next to the Medical Center in Oakland, an elegant university neighborhood
with museums, parks, and great restaurants. Beautiful new facilities
have also been built, a short shuttle ride from the main campus, along
the Monongahela River, replacing the steel mills that once were there.
Our department is growing rapidly, both in numbers of students and
faculty, and in the funding and diversity of our research. The
Pittsburgh bioengineering community is a vibrant and stimulating
alliance of diverse components for which our department forms an
essential and central connection.