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Colorado's top-ranking bioengineering program

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Solve clinical problems in medicine using engineering technology.

The Department of Bioengineering, situated on the Anschutz Medical Campus, provides unparalleled instructional resources for biomedical engineering and health sciences.

The Anschutz Medical Campus is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region. It is home to more than 1,300 funded investigators, the CU health professional schools, two nationally ranked hospitals, and a growing bioscience industry complex.

The Department of Bioengineering offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, as well as certificates and dual-degree options.

Innovative, interconnected, and highly collaborative, the Anschutz Medical Campus is the best place in Colorado to be an engineer.

Recruiting Faculty, Fall 2023

 

Cristin Welle, PhD | Bioelectrics Lab

cristin.welle@cuanschutz.edu | 303-724-9116

Associate Professor

Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Neurosurgery

Department of Physiology & Biophysics

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Brecca Gaffney | Gaffney Lab

BRECCA.GAFFNEY@UCDENVER.EDU | 303-315-7508

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver

Center for Bioengineering, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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BRECCA.GAFFNEY@UCDENVER.EDU


Chelsea M. Magin, PhD | Magin Lab for Bio-inspired Pulmonary Engineering

CHELSEA.MAGIN@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU | 303-724-3344

Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering, Pediatrics, and Medicine

Chelsea Magin working in Lab

 

Melike Sirlanci, PhD | Dr. Melike Sirlanci Laboratory

MELIKE.SIRLANCI@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU  

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

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I am interested in investigating problems arising in biomedicine by using data assimilation techniques. For this purpose, I use both physiology-based mechanistic models and machine learning type of models. The projects that currently use these techniques are grouped under the following themes:

Estimating, forecasting, and control of human glucose-insulin system based on clinical and patient-collected data
Phenotyping, inference, and control in hematology-oncology settings
Understanding hospital-acquired conditions and developing the methodology to avoid these conditions by using clinical and demographic data.

The student should have mathematical/computational background. More precisely, basic knowledge of linear algebra, differential equations, statistics. They should also have a basic level of programming skills in at least one coding language.

Karin A. Payne, PhD | Payne Lab

KARIN.PAYNE@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

Associate Professor

Department of Orthopedics, School of Medicine 

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Robin Shandas, PhD | Shandas Lab for Bionnovation

ROBIN.SHANDAS@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU | 303-724-4196

Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Bioengineering
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and (by courtesy) Surgery 
University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus 
Director, Center for Bioengineering 
University of Colorado School of Medicine

 

Hiring multiple PhD students.

Dr. Robin Shandas

Bradford Smith, PhD | Smith Pulmonary Biomechanics Laboratory 

BRADFORD.SMITH@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU 

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Department of Pediatrics (Pulmonology)

Bradford Smith

  • Eligibility
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Applicants to the PhD and master of science in bioengineering should meet the following minimum requirements:

  • Prior GPA in most recent degree of 3.0 (B) or higher
  • Completion of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited United States institution or comparable international institution, or
  • Completion of a bachelor's degree in a bioscience-related field with:
  • three semesters of calculus
    • one semester of differential equations and linear algebra
    • one semester of statistics
    • one semester of mechanics
    • one semester of circuits
    • one semester of computer programming

Students may be admitted to the graduate bioengineering program with the provision that, in addition to the required courses, they take any missing courses at CU Denver. All math requirements must be completed prior to matriculation. There are no exceptions to this. 

CU Denver and the graduate programs in bioengineering are accredited through the regional accreditation agency. For more information, visit www.ncahlc.org​.​​

  • Assistive Technologies
  • Basic Research
  • Biomedical Device Design
  • Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Hemodynamics
  • Cell and Tissue Biophysics
  • Clinical Imaging
  • Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Affairs
  • Imaging and Biophotonics, Clinical and Translational Bioengineering
  • Neural Engineering 
  • Orthopaedics and Prosthetics
  • Polymers and Biomaterials
  • Pulmonary Biomechanics
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Learn more about all research opportunities. 

 

 

Masters

The master of science in bioengineering requires 30 credit hours of coursework, including 3 to 6 credit hours of a master’s project or thesis:

  • 3 credit hours of life sciences core
  • 3 credit hours of quantitative methods core
  • 6 credit hours of technology core
  • 3 credit hours of research and clinical core
  • 9-12 credit hours of electives
  • 3-6 research core, including master’s project or thesis

PhD

The PhD in bioengineering requires 21 credits of didactic coursework, 30 credits of research coursework, and 9 credits of electives, broken down below. I’ve also attached the Program Worksheet so you can take a look at the courses offered.

  • 6 credits of life sciences core
  • 6 credits of quantitative core
  • 6 credits of technology core
  • 3 credits of research and clinical core
  • 9 credits of electives
  • 30 credits of research

Assistive Technology and Inclusive Engineering

Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship

Neural Engineering

 

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