Master of Science in Bioengineering - Portland

Program Objectives

Students will complete 32 semester hours, including a rigorous core curriculum in basic bioengineering science followed by completion of the chosen immersion track curriculum.

The core curriculum focuses on the variety of topics needed for students to compete internationally within the bioengineering field. Concentrations allow students to closely affiliate with a group of faculty, led by Rai Winslow, whose research is clustered around precision medicine.

Unique Features

• Learn computational medicine from its core theoretical principles to its practical application.
• Study the use of real-world clinical data sets to solve important health care problems.
• Receive real-world training on the applications of statistical modeling and engineering approaches to precision medicine.
• Gain the ability to pursue either a research or industry co-op in precision medicine.

Career Outlook

Biology has already become a computational discipline, and medicine is following. For someone to be relevant in the coming era of biomedicine, it’s necessary to understand how to formulate a wide range of biological systems models that relate phenotype to function in both health and disease.

• This is a rapidly growing sector of the engineering profession.
• Biomedical advances are increasingly dependent on quantitative approaches exemplified by our bioengineering program. Recent high-profile reports on the high rate of failures in artificial hips—along with the rising demand for more sophisticated and cost-effective medical equipment and procedures—only furthers the demand for biomedical engineers.
• The convergence of advanced materials, genome-wide informatics, and ever-expanding computational power is producing a strong foundation for the design and fabrication of biomedical devices. Single-cell technologies combined with additive manufacturing techniques make possible novel tissue-on-a-chip platforms for pharmaceutical testing.