Thomas McNamara grew up in New York, hundreds of miles away from Purdue University’s flagship campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. But thanks to his high school math teacher, a Purdue alum who ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Advances in medical technology have increased the scope and complexity of modern health care systems. In the United States alone, health care spending grew by nearly 10% in 2020, reaching a gross ...

Biomedical engineering integrates life sciences and engineering education that underlie the development of cost-effective technology for health care, including medical devices and diagnostics, ...

Students develop and and learn how to market a prototype in the senior capstone design project. This major has the highest percentage of female engineering students than any other field. People with ...

Biomedical engineering will help us go beyond the antibiotics, antivirals, and steroids that dominated last century’s medical arsenal. From drug-carrying nanorobots to genetic and tissue engineering, ...

As healthcare technology accelerates across the globe, students are increasingly drawn to two interdisciplinary fields at the cutting edge of innovation: biotechnology and biomedical engineering. Both ...

The interdisciplinary nature of biological engineering, often referred to as bioengineering, leads to jobs in healthcare, business, education, and government. Biological engineering blends engineering ...

Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines the best of biology, medicine and engineering design to produce some of the world’s greatest healthcare innovations. Sound exciting?