Feb. 17, 2009
BME graduate student Guru Madhavan was recognized as one of the New Faces of Engineering 2009 by the National Engineering Week Foundation.
Feb. 5, 2009
BME graduate student Kathryn Fletcher received the "20 in their Twenties" award from the Southern Tier Opportunity Coalition.
Nov. 13, 2008
BME graduate student Kathryn Fletcher has launched a startup company, H2 Innovations, Inc., with EE graduate student Patrick Hart. Video/story by WICZ Fox 40.
Sept. 25, 2008
Click here for the Bioengineering Undergraduate Accomplishments page
Sept. 22, 2008
The B.S. in Bioengineering Program has been accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700.
Sept. 10, 2008
Hiroki Sayama (Bioengineering), Shelley Dionne (School of Management), Craig Laramee (Bioengineering) and Francis Yammarino (School of Management) received a $552,074 NSF grant for Evolutionary Perspective on Collective Decision Making. Dave Schaffer, a Visiting Professor of Bioengineering, also participates in this project.
June 8, 2008
The graduation speech by student speaker Danielle Barone and some photos at the 2008 Commencement are available.
May 2, 2008
BE senior Kathryn Fletcher received the distinction of Honorable Mention for the 2008 University Awards for Undergraduate Student Excellence.
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April 7, 2008
BE graduate student Guru Madhavan was selected as the "Student of the Year" in the 2008 EE Times ACE Awards.
March 30, 2008
Hiroki Sayama was invited as a Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker by the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center from March 26 to 28. He gave a talk there about "Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Self-Propelled Particle Swarms" on March 27.
March 25, 2008
BE student organization The Binghamton Bioengineers held the 2nd Annual Bioengineering Fair "ICK! - I'm a Complex Kid" for kids in the community on March 1, 2008, at the University Downtown Center. Follow this link to see the Photo Gallery!
March 6, 2008
Jacques Beaumont presented his research at the Third Watson Faculty Seminar held on March 6, 2008.
Feb. 29, 2008
BE graduate student Guru Madhavan was among the 20 young professionals recognized by The Southern Tier Opportunity Coalition.
Feb. 28, 2008
Craig Laramee (Bioengineering), David Sloan Wilson (Biology and Anthropology), Shelley Dionne (School of Management) and Hiroki Sayama (Bioengineering) received a $149,955 NSF grant for Teaching Social Complexity and Multidisciplinary Team Building: An Experimental Engineering Approach.
Feb. 28, 2008
The 3rd Annual Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference will be held on May 3, 2008, at the University Downtown Center.
Feb. 7, 2008
Hiroki Sayama was among the three presenters at the first Watson Faculty Seminar held on February 7, 2008.
Feb. 4, 2008
BE Chair Ken McLeod will speak on "Where Medicine Went Wrong" in the Science Cabaret on March 4.
Feb. 4, 2008
Hiroki Sayama was invited as a guest scientist and the institute colloquium speaker by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He visited from Jan. 2 to 18.
Jan. 31, 2008
Six BE female students (Caitlyn Chiofolo, Kristen Greco, Lauren Hazucha, Dana Russell, Kristie Shirreffs and Kara Sobieniak) will attend the Society of Women Engineers Region E Conference that will be held at VCU on March 7-9, 2008. The Department is sponsoring their trip.
Jan. 31, 2008
BE senior Josh Kay was appointed to the newly formed Young Leaders Congress by First Lady Silda Spitzer.
Oct. 18, 2007
George Catalano received a 2006-07 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was among 26 faculty, staff and alumni recognized for their excellence during the year 2006-07.
Oct. 12, 2007
BE graduate student Guru Madhavan will accept the 2007 Mike Sargeant Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology during a November ceremony in London.
Aug. 23, 2007
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Aug. 22, 2007
Click here for the Bioengineering Computer Recommendations page
June 25, 2007
New information added, including information about the new Biomedical Engineering graduate program that will start in Fall 2007.
May 17, /2007
BE senior Tina Chang was featured in the Inside BU article "Senior blends engineering, mathematics."
April 26, 2007
BE graduate student Guru Madhavan won both the TACNY Young Technologist of the Year Award and the Binghamton University Council/Foundation Award.
April 22, 2007
Photo gallery of our first Bioengineering Bowling event!
April 18, 2007
BE senior Sheila Saia received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.
March 2, 2007
BE Department Administrator Ellen Madison received the STAR Award. The STAR Award celebrates specific acts of exemplary service and ongoing dedication to the principles of quality service. Winners receive a pin, a $50 check and a letter from President Lois B. DeFleur. Madison was nominated by Guru Madhavan and bioengineering colleagues and students.
Feb. 23, 2007
BE student organization The Binghamton Bioengineers held the "ICK! - I'm a Complex Kid" Science Fair for kids in the community, which met with a great success and was featured in a local newspaper.
May 22, 2006
Photo gallery of our first Bioengineering picnic!
May 8, 2006
The Watson School and the School of Management cooperate to offer a combined Fast Track BS-MBA program, which allows Watson students to earn an MBA in one additional year beyond the normal four-year BS degree in Bioengineering.
April 29, 2006
Photo gallery of the BCC Scholastic Fair 2006 where some of our faculty and graduate students volunteered to judge.
Feb. 28, 2006
Walker Land contributed a chapter in a recent book entitled Recent Advances in Breast Imaging, Mammography, and Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer (.pdf,480kb). The book was just published in February of 2006.
Feb. 16, 2006
Guruprasad Madhavan doesn't just want to be an engineer. He wants to be a "renaissance engineer", a wellrounded person with multiple intelligences who understands technical information, business and several cultures.
Dec. 13, 2005
BME doctoral student Guruprasad Madhavan was featured in an AAMI career development article (.pdf,116kb).
Nov. 18, 2005
BE Chair Ken McLeod honored at recognition dinner for innovation, creation, and discovery.
Nov. 15, 2005
Leann Lesperance is looking for ways to improve the odds against increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Nov. 10, 2005
Bioengineering web site gets a face-lift from BE PhD student Dan Sloat. Better usability, manageability & Tuftian design principles employed to give site a new look-and-feel.
Oct. 14, 2005
Click here for more information about the ITC
May 20, 2005
BME doctoral student Guruprasad Madhavan receives the IEEE/RAB Larry K. Wilson Award for Excellence in Student Activities.
Bioengineering sophomore, Amy Au Yeung, has been accepted to the BioMEMSs Summer Institute Program at New Jersey Institute of Technology. While participating in the summer program, Yeung will learn how to construct a BioMEMS device that will be used to address an assigned biomedical issue. She will also be taking several classes on BioMEMS, Biological and Chemical Foundations for Biomedical Engineers, and Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering. We are very proud of Yeung’s initiative to pursue academic achievements outside of the scope of academic obligations to our program.
April 28, 2005
Bioengineering Graduate student's ( Guruprasad Madhavan ) professional development articles published.
(article 1) (.pdf,86kb)
(article 2) (.pdf,40kb)
April 19, 2005
April 18, 2005
BE faculty Craig Laramee receives NYSTAR James Watson Young Investigator Award.
April 15, 2005
April 12, 2005
BME doctoral student Guruprasad Madhavan receives the University Excellence Award and to represent the program at the United Nations Conference.
April 10, 2005
Click here for the full article
January 2005
Bioengineers collaborate with local clinicians to improve chronic health (.pdf,353kb)
Jan. 25, 2005
Jan. 5, 2005
The graduate students in bioengineering presented posters at the BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) annual conference at Philadelphia in October. The posters were presented by Atul Pawar (Bayesian Classifier for False Alarm Reduction in ICU's) and Diana Anderson (Cellular Automata Modeling of Polyampholyte Adsorption and Self-Organization).
Sept. 21, 2004
Sept. 10, 2004
New website for Department of Bioengineering (http:\\bioeng.binghamton.edu) was launched on Aug. 10, built by graduate student Atul Pawar, who is working as a Research Assistant in the department of Bioengineering.
Three bioengineering undergraduate students have received placements in prestigious summer internship programs.
Dene Farrell, a sophomore, has been accepted into a remarkably selective research program at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico to pursue studies in Biocomplexity. Farrell will also be pursing distinct and prestigious international study programs in Germany and Austria. These programs will last for one full academic year. Farrell will be supported with stipend, travel awards and housing during his entire tenure.
Joanna Hedels, a second-year BE undergraduate student, has been offered an internship opportunity at the Virginia Commonwealth University in the area of Bioinformatics. This program will extend over 2 summers. Hedels will also enjoy stipend, travel awards, and housing support during her internship program. Hedels jointly manages the roles of the vice president and secretary of the Binghamton Bioengineers.
Michael Brown, a second-year student, has been accepted into the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, (Utica, NY) Summer Fellowship Program to pursue studies in the mathematical modeling of physiological systems. Brown has been awarded with stipend support.
The Binghamton Bioengineers, in collaboration with American Red Cross Society, organized what was said to be one of the most successful and high-turn in blood drives at Binghamton University. About 35 donors donated blood. The Red Cross plans to re-collaborate with the society to organize another blood drive in the fall.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Bartle Professor Don Gause was conferred the prestigious Founders Award. Gause was honored in recognition of his contributions, vision, and extraordinary commitment to the Watson School.
Don, who is also the Bioengineering Graduate Program Director is one of the foremost experts in the nation in the areas of Heuristic Problem Solving, Heuristic Programming, Systems Design, Modeling and Simulation, and Neural Network and Genetic Models and is engaged in the creation, evolution, and testing of effective teaching approaches drawing heavily on adaptive simulation processes.
On May 11, Governor George Pataki announced a $749,931 grant award to the Department of Bioengineering to support its mission in fighting against chronic diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis and heart failure. This grant, part of $3 million in faculty development awards to four New York universities administered by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research, will support the program to recruit a researcher to lead the new Clinical Sciences Research Center that will focus on chronic disease prevention and management.
The Binghamton Bioengineers initiated its public health-care awareness activities by participating in two major health walks conducted by the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association in the Greater Binghamton Area. The students blended well with the Binghamton public and educated the people to be aware of chronic debilitating conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. The students also raised approximately $500 for the walks. This participation was significantly appreciated by the organizers and the public.
Bioengineering undergraduate and graduate students have formed an IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society under the name "The Binghamton Bioengineers." IEEE approved the formation of the society and will fund the society’s proposed activities in the areas of public health-care awareness, community education, technical contributions and leadership-based activities. The society has been concurrently chartered by the Graduate Student Organization and the Undergraduate Student Association the University. The society consists of four main officers, viz. president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. Undergraduate students have actively assumed offices in the areas of membership management, fundraising, social activities, industry relations, and publications and library management.
ARLINGTON, Va., March 19, 2004 --- The number of biomedical engineering jobs will climb almost twice as fast as the overall average for a 26.1 percent gain by 2012, according to the government's new long-range forecast. Overall job growth is projected to be 14.8 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The bureau's growth projections have declined slightly since the last national survey two years ago. At that time, the government foresaw a 31.4 percent increase in biomedical engineering jobs over 10 years and a 15.2 percent overall growth.
The new report released last month counted 7,600 biomedical engineering jobs in the United States as of 2002 and projected that number to exceed 10,000 by 2012.
Thirty-eight percent of all biomedical engineers counted in the government survey worked in manufacturing industries, principally in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing and in industries that make medical instruments and supplies. Other big employers are hospitals and government agencies. "The aging of the population and the focus on health issues will increase the demand for better medical devices and equipment designed by biomedical engineers," the report said. Areas of rapid development cited by the report include computer-assisted surgery and molecular, cellular and tissue engineering as well as rehabilitation and orthopedic engineering. "Along with the demand for more sophisticated medical equipment and procedures is an increased concern for cost efficiency and effectiveness that also will boost demand for biomedical engineers," the report said. "However, because of the growing interest in this field, the number of degrees granted in biomedical engineering has increased greatly, leading to the potential for competition for jobs." As it stands, biomedical engineers earned a median annual income of $60,410 in 2002. The middle 50 percent earned between $58,320 and $88,830. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $48,450, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $107,520, the report said. The BLS cited a 2003 salary survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers showing that bachelor's degree candidates in biomedical engineering received employment offers averaging $39,126 a year, while master's degree candidates considered offers of about $61,000.The government's 10-year employment forecast is watched closely by career guidance counselors and institutions that plan education and training programs. The projections are also used in studies of long-range employment trends.
Guruprasad Madhavan, a bioengineering doctoral candidate accepted an associate editor position offered by a prominent IEEE magazine - Potentials. IEEE- the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, headquartered at Piscataway, New Jersey, is the largest technical organization in the world and its magazine Potentials is considered to be the #1 magazine for upcoming engineers. The average international circulation of the Potentials is 50,000 copies.
The unique nature of Binghamton's bioengineering program was highlighted in a recent review on the foundations of biomedical engineering:
Robert A. Linsenmeier. "What Makes a Biomedical Engineer? Defining the Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Curriculum". IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 22:4, pages 32-38. July/August, 2003. © 2003 IEEE.
The National Science Foundation announced that it will be funding a grant to the Bioengineering Department at Binghamton titled: Undergraduate Bioengineering, a unique Science-Based Discipline through its Engineering Education Program. The proposal focuses on developing bioengineering as a branch of engineering based on the principles of the complex systems science. A second emphasis is on explicitly covering professional skills in a sequence of six one-credit courses during the sophomore through senior years of the program. Reviewers of the grant noted that while most bioengineering programs nationwide have been developed as "add on" programs, the bioengineering program at Binghamton represents a true "designed from ground up" program.
