Ranu Jung Ph.D., Professor, and Chair of the BME Department was welcomed as a member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society
Ranu Jung Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the BME Department, was anonymously nominated to be part of the recognized scientific community, Sigma Xi. Dr. Jung was appointed with full membership and had an induction ceremony through an online meeting where she pledged to...
Former Ph.D. Student iian Black Granted New Patent on his Dissertation Research: “Directional-Specific Extraneural Recording Device”
Never give up. Always believe in yourself.iian Black graduated with his Doctorate Degree in December of 2019 after successfully presenting his dissertation work, which described a device he had been working on for more than three years during his Biomedical Engineer...
BME Associate Professor, Sharan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., was awarded an NSF Partnership for Innovation – Technology Translation Grant
Sharan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant. According to NSF, the PFI-TT grant offers researchers the opportunity to transform new knowledge into societal benefits through...
Jessica Molina Wins Outstanding BME Undergraduate Student for the Spring 2020 Class
During her time here at FIU, Jessica Molina has grown into an academically-driven leader in STEM. An early-childhood diagnosis of a rare disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, drove her passion for STEM and, ultimately, her motivation to contribute to the scientific...
Students and Faculty Serving the Community During COVID-19 Crisis
FIU Biomedical Engineering Students and Faculty Serving the Community During COVID-19 CrisisThe world is going through difficult times and our duty as biomedical engineers is to help others with our knowledge when they need us the most. Supporting President...
From Graduation to a Full-Time Career
Our former BME undergrad student, Jose Solis, has accepted a position with international aluminum leader, Novelis Jose Solis graduated in the Fall of 2019 as a proud Biomedical Engineer. Now he will join Novelis, the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group,...
Senior Design Award Ceremony – Spring 2020 at FIU
A Different but Amazing Senior Design Award Ceremony Due to the current situation, this semester’s Senior Design Expo was completely different from the past years and was even more challenging for our students. Each group had to submit their reports, posters and oral...
Norman-Weldon Scholarship – Summer 2020 at FIU
Norman-Weldon Scholarship – Summer 2020 at FIU The FIU Biomedical Engineering Department has established an award for undergraduate students to participate in faculty research during the summer. The awards are intended to support students with an interest in pursuing...
Graduate Research Day Spring 2020
Graduate Students innovative work was presented at the Graduate Research Day Spring 2020On Friday, March 6, a total of 34 Masters and Ph.D. students presented their research to their peers, professors, guest speakers and a few selected judges. Ph.D. students (with a...
The Biomedical Engineering Presents a Heart Day Symposium
FIU's Biomedical Engineering Department just celebrated “Heart Day Symposium” to highlight ongoing research on cardiovascular disease For the third consecutive year and as part of the Wallace H Coulter Foundation Seminar Series, the Biomedical Engineer Department...
The Convergence of Medical Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Jianyi Zhang, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, the first guest speaker of Miami Heart ♥ Month Lecture Series As part of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundations Seminars and the FIU...
3 Minute Thesis Competition at FIU
Sana Nasim, a BME Graduate Student, Won Second Place at the 3MT Competition at FIU In just three minutes Sana was able to expose and describe, to non-biomedical experts, her research on how pigment cells in the aortic valve play a key role in heart diseases. She...