Case Western Reserve University - Biomedical Engineering

The Case Western Reserve University Department of Biomedical Engineering launched in 1968 as one of the first Biomedical Engineering programs in the world. Formally incorporated in both the School of Engineering and School of Medicine, the department provides full research and education programs and is consistently top-ranked for graduate and undergraduate studies, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The program is headquartered in the Wickenden Building on the Case Western Reserve University campus in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty and students collaborate on medical research with: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, and MetroHealth Medical Center

The Case Institute of Technology launched the Engineering Design Center in 1960, from which the department would later emerge. 1962 – Plans developed to enroll graduate students from the existing Systems Research Center, Engineering Design Center and the Environmental Health Program, and the Western Reserve University School of Medicine, into a graduate biomedical engineering program. Case added an undergraduate elective sequence in biomedical engineering. The following year, it was the first such program to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant. 1967 – Case merged with Western Reserve University to form Case Western Reserve University. The Biomedical Engineering Division was created. 1968 – The Board of Trustees approved the formation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. University trustees approved the Department of Biomedical Engineering, then one of only six in the country. 1969 – Case Western Reserve created the first MD/PhD program.

1972 – Case Western Reserve became one of the first schools to offer a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering, with tracks in materials, instrumentation/electronics and systems/controls. The undergraduate program was one of the first accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development (which later became the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). 1977- The department's first hospital-based program, the Rehabilitation Engineering Center was created in relationship with MetroHealth Medical Center (then Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital), the Cleveland VA Medical Center and the Department of Orthopaedics of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

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