Department: Bioengineering
Contacts
Office: 443 Via Ortega, Shriram Center, Room 121
Mail Code: 94305-4125
Phone: Graduate students: (650) 498-3224; Undergraduates: (650) 497-3135
Web Site: http://bioengineering.stanford.edu
Courses offered by the Department of Bioengineering are listed under the subject code BIOE on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses web site.
Bioengineering is jointly supported by the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. The facilities and personnel of the Department of Bioengineering are housed in the Shriram Center, James H. Clark Center, the William F. Durand Building for Space Engineering and Science, the William M. Keck Science Building, the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, and the Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging. The departmental headquarters is in the Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering.
Courses in the teaching program lead to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. The department collaborates in research and teaching programs with faculty members in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and departments in the School of Medicine. Quantitative biology is the core science base of the department. The research and educational thrusts are in biomedical computation, biomedical imaging, biomedical devices, regenerative medicine, and cell/molecular engineering. The clinical dimension of the department includes cardiovascular medicine, neuroscience, orthopedics, cancer care, neurology, and the environment.
Mission of the Undergraduate Program in Bioengineering
The Stanford Bioengineering (BIOE) major enables students to combine engineering and the life sciences in ways that advance scientific discovery, healthcare and medicine, manufacturing, environmental quality, culture, education, and policy. Students who major in bioengineering earn a fundamental engineering degree for which the raw materials, underlying basic sciences, fundamental toolkit, and future frontiers are all defined by the unique properties of living systems.
The department offers an undergraduate major in Bioengineering leading to the B.S. degree in Bioengineering.
Graduate Programs in Bioengineering
The University’s requirements for the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are outlined in the “Graduate Degrees” section of this bulletin.
Admission
Students are expected to enter with a series of core competencies in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, computing, and engineering. Students entering the program are assessed by the examination of their undergraduate transcripts and research experiences. Specifically, the department requires that students have completed mathematics through multivariable calculus and differential equations, completed a series of undergraduate biology courses and completed physics, chemistry, and computer sciences courses required of all undergraduate majors in engineering.
Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply for predoctoral national competitive fellowships, especially those from the National Science Foundation. Applicants to the Ph.D. program should consult with their financial aid officers for information and applications.
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is not required for admission to the M.S. or Ph.D. program in Bioengineering.
Further information and application instructions for all graduate degree programs may be obtained from Graduate Admissions.
Faculty
Chair: Jennifer R. Cochran
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Karl Deisseroth
Director of Graduate Studies: Markus Covert
Professors: Russ B. Altman, Kwabena Boahen, Wah Chiu, Jennifer Cochran, Markus Covert, Karl Deisseroth, Scott Delp, Kerwyn C. Huang, Joshua Makower, Alison Marsden, Stephen Quake, James Swartz, Paul Yock
Associate Professors: Annelise Barron, Zev Bryant, David Camarillo, Todd Coleman, Andrew Endy, Michael Fischbach, Jin Hyung Lee, Michael Lin, Jan Liphardt, Emma Lundberg, Manu Prakash, Stanley Qi, Fan Yang
Assistant Professors: Lacramioara Bintu, Jennifer Brophy, Polly Fordyce, Matthias Garten, Rogelio Hernández-López, Possu Huang, Paul Nuyujukian, Hawa Racine Thiam, Mark Skylar-Scott, Bo Wang
Professors, by courtesy: Bruce Daniel, Jeffrey Feinstein, Stuart Goodman, Brian Hargreaves, Sarah Heilshorn, Ellen Kuhl, Craig Levin, Lloyd Minor, Kim Butts Pauly, Krishna Shenoy, H. Tom Soh, Paul Wang, Joseph Woo, Peter Yang,
Associate Professors, by courtesy: James Wall
Assistant Professors, by courtesy: Eric Appel
Adjunct Professors: Narges Baniasadi, Amit Kaushal, Uday Kumar, Megan Palmer, Vijay Pande, Marc Salit, Gordon Saul, Christina Smolke, Michael Specter
Lecturers: Alex Engel, Ross D. Venook
Emeritus: Dennis Carter, Norbert Pelc