Duke BME in Brief: Facts and Stats

MISSION: Duke BME works to provide an outstanding educational and research environment that profoundly impacts industry and medicine.

RANKINGS: The DukeBME graduate program is ranked among the top five in the country by the National Research Council, and was ranked #6 in the country in the 2005 U.S. News & World Report Graduate School Rankings. The undergraduate BME major was rated #5 nationwide for the 2008 rankings.

SIZE: BME is the second largest graduate program at Duke, the seventh-largest undergraduate major, and the largest undergraduate major in the School of Engineering.

2007-2008 FACULTY AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

• American Council on Education Fellowship –William Reichert
• Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award – Wanda Krassowska
• Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Warren Grill
• Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - Joseph A. Izatt
• Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Ashutosh Chilkoti
• James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of BME - Wanda Krassowska
• Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Roger C. Barr
• Fulbright Scholarship - Kerry Costello, '08
• Fellow, American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering – Craig Henriquez
• President, Biomedical Engineering Society - George Truskey
• Fellow, SPIE - Joseph Izatt
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Advisory Committee - Warren Grill

See individual faculty profiles for more information.

HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

1965
Interdisciplinary graduate program in biomedical engineering formed

1966-1996
NIH training grant in Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering

1967
Undergraduate biomedical engineering program initiated

1970
BME department formed

1972
Undergraduate major in BME becomes first in nation to receive accreditation

1980
National Science Foundation (NSF) award for undergraduate laboratories

1987-1999
NSF Engineering Research Center in Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies

1992-present
NLM training grant in Medical Informatics

1993
Center for Cellular and Biosurface Engineering established

1994-present
NIGMS Biotechnology training grant

1995-1999
Whitaker Special Opportunity Award in Cellular and Biosurface Engineering

1998
3D texture mapping and ultrasound technologies included in the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection

1998-2002
Whitaker Special Opportunity Award in Imaging

2005-2006
Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partnership Award