Eight years ago, a team of students in the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development program tried to address a pressing need in sports medicine: how to treat millions of patients with chronic soft tissue injuries that would not respond to physical therapy. Their solution was a microinvasive surgical tool called the Ocelot, developed during the one-year […]
Latest US News Rankings Keep Coulter BME Grad Programs Among Nation’s Best
In a streak that extends now to 15 of the last 19 years, the joint graduate biomedical engineering program at Georgia Tech and Emory University is No. 2 in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Released each spring, the rankings reflect the assessment of peer department heads around […]
MBID Sends New Grads Off to Shape the Future
This week was a landmark moment in the eight-year-old Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development program: more than 200 students now have earned the MBID degree. The milestone comes as the one-year master’s program in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering graduated another 26 students this week, celebrating the end of its most […]
BME Grads Navigating Uncharted Territory
Grassroots effort linking students with mentors to help make the transition in the pandemic age. Under typical circumstances, the transition from college to career can be stressful, fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. For students undergoing that rite of passage now, in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, it can particularly daunting. The same goes […]
MBID Students Deliver Final Presentations and Celebrate Graduation
Year-long medical device projects end with in-depth presentations to clinicians and faculty. The one-year Master in Biomedical Innovation and Development (MBID) program was created in 2013 by the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory to fill a market need for innovative professionals thoroughly trained at the intersection of biomedical […]
