Industry.

Duke BME's Industry Program works to stimulate collaboration between industry and the department, with the goal of expanding educational opportunities for engineering students, supporting connections between faculty researchers and industry, and strengthening the biomedical industry.

Major components of the Industry Program include an annual symposium and rich student internship opportunities. In addition to undergraduate internships, over the past decade, more than 50 graduate students have interned with such companies as Siemens Medical Systems, Boehringer Mannheim, Genentech, Genetronics, Glaxo Wellcome, Guidant, Medtronic, Eli Lilly, Advanced Technology Laboratories, Silicon Graphics, NC Supercomputing Center, AMP, General Electric, Cray Research, Conductus, Venitrex, AT&T, Echo Ultrasound, HBOC, Cardiac Pacemakers, Boston Scientific, Intermedics, CSIRO Ultrasonics Laboratory (Australia), NeuroPace, Occidental Chemical, Partners HealthCare, and Karolinska Institute, as well as the NIH and FDA.

Duke BME is working to develop a number of other activities, including an Industry-Academic Research Incubator Program, a Practical Engineering Applications Laboratory (BME 263), industrial mentors and representatives on student thesis committees, engineering management courses for graduate and undergraduate students, and technology-specific short courses and topical research workshops.

Helping to guide these efforts is the Duke BME Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), which includes representatives from across the biomedical industry--from small start-up companies to large established corporations.

Current members are:

• Genzyme Corporation
  Cambridge, MA
   
• Boston Scientific
  Natick, MA
   
• Guidant Corporation
  Indianapolis, IN
   
• GE Medical Systems Information Technologies
  Tampa, FL
   
• Cardiac Rhythm Management
  Medtronic, Inc.
  Minneapolis, MN
   
• Carlsen Melton, Inc.
  Sunnyvale CA
   
• NeuroPace, Inc.
  Sunnyvale, CA 94085
   
• Surface Logix Inc
  Brighton, MA
   
• Cartesian Technologies, Inc.
  Durham, N.C.
   
• Ventrica, Inc
  Fremont, CA
   
• SyneCor
  Research Triangle Park, NC
   
• Domain Associates, L.L.C.
  Laguna Niguel, CA
   
• Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
  Ultrasound Group
  Issaquah, WA
   
• Icagen, Inc.
  Research Triangle Park, NC