The Department of Bioengineering is the first of its kind in Colorado. Its goal is to improve human health through the application of engineering principles, ideas, methods, and inventions in order to solve important clinical problems.
The consolidation of the CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus provides unprecedented instructional resources in bioengineering and research opportunities in health sciences. Students have opportunities to learn from clinicians and engineers and to perform research or medical device design in world-class hospitals and clinical research labs.
Explore research that combines the fundamentals of engineering and the science of medicine.
A medical device company founded by two University of Colorado Denver and CU Anschutz Medical Campus professors was recently acquired by Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies.
Bioengineering instructor Cassandra Howard was inspired to teach because she saw a way to impact students by teaching them valuable skills. “To help them contribute to the world as tomorrow’s engineers, that is the ultimate win,” she says.