2002-2003 Bioengineering

UCLA
7523 Boelter Hall
Box 951600
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600

(310) 794-5945
fax: (310) 794-5956
http://www.bme.ucla.edu/

Carlo D. Montemagno, Ph.D., Chair

Professors
Warren S. Grundfest, M.D. FACS
Carlo D. Montemagno, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors
James Dunn, M.D., Ph.D.
Benjamin Wu, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professors
Toshikazu Hamasaki, Ph.D.
Hercules Neves, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jacob Schmidt, Ph.D.

Scope and Objectives

The Department of Bioengineering was recently approved, and plans are underway to develop a scholastic program that treats bioengineering as a discrete engineering science discipline. Through intensive training in both modern biology and engineering science, the department provides the educational platform necessary for students to become leaders in the fields that are evolving from the convergence of the biological and physical sciences.

Considerable resources have been allocated to support the establishment of a world-class academic unit, including the construction of unique state-of-the-art laboratory teaching facilities dedicated to instructing students in the most advanced techniques for fabricating hybrid living/nonliving devices. Students enrolled in both the undergraduate and graduate programs learn how to design engineering systems that integrate with living systems of all size scales, starting at the molecular/nanoscale level.

Undergraduate and graduate programs are expected to be in place by Fall Quarter 2003. Transfer and graduate students will be accepted during 2003, while the first freshman class will be admitted for Fall Quarter 2004.