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Department of Biomedical Engineering: professors and courses

Course codes BME

Who teaches here

Department of Biomedical Engineering professors and instructors
NameTeaches
Professors · 43
Deji Akinwande CVProfessorNanoscale devices · carbon nanotubes and graphene · Plastic nanoelectronics and nanotechnology · High-frequency analog circuit design
No classes listed this year
Farshid AlambeigiAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Catherine G AmbroseAdjoint associate professor
No classes listed this year
Aaron Blair Baker CVProfessorCardiovascular biology · Vascular biomechanics and mechanotransduction · Development of medical devices · drug delivery and tissue engineering systems: Glycobiology
BME 353, BME 359, BME 382J
Adela Ben-YakarProfessorBiomechanical and biomedicine engineering · Two-photon fluorescence laser scanning microscopy
No classes listed this year
Amy Brock Evaluations CVAssociate professorCancer systems biology · Heterogeneity and cell state plasticity · Gene regulatory networks · Chemotherapy drug resistance
BME 336
Adam Bush Evaluations CVAssistant professorNovel MRI methods · Novel blood flow and oximetry methods in cardiovascular disease · anemic disorders and cancer
BME 311, BME 377T
Edward Castillo Evaluations CVAssociate professorTheoretical development · Imaging and image-guided interventions · Computational biomedical engineering
BME 313L, BME 377T, BME 383J
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez Evaluations CVProfessorTissue repair and regeneration · Polymer science · Bioengineering
BME 364, BME 382J
Kenneth R Diller Evaluations CVProfessorBiomedical heat and mass transfer · Hyperthermia treatment of tumors · Therapeutic hypothermia · Cryotherapy of injured tissues
UGS 303
Andrew K Dunn CVProfessorOptical microscopy · Functional brain imaging · Molecular imaging · Neuroscience
BME 349
Lief Fenno CVAssistant professor
No classes listed this year
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Department of Biomedical Engineering professors and instructors, continued
NameTeaches
Professors · 43
George Georgiou Evaluations CVProfessorDiscovery · preclinical and clinical development of protein therapeutics · Vaccine evaluation · Analysis of human immune responses in health and disease
BME 344C
Ted Ho Evaluations CVAssistant professorAging and longevity · Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases · Optogenetics and neuromodulation · Neural activity imaging
BME 311
Nanshu Lu CVProfessorMechanics of flexible and stretchable structures · 2D and nano materials for soft electronics · Manufacture and transfer of bio-integrated electronics · Mechanics at bio-electronics interface
No classes listed this year
Mia K Markey Evaluations CVProfessorBiomedical informatics · Decision support · Biomedical image analysis · Biometrics
BME 197P, BME 197S, BME 380J
Alexander Marras CVAssistant professorPolymeric nanoparticles for RNA delivery · Soft matter characterization · Structural DNA nanotechnology for sensing · Nanorobotics
No classes listed this year
Jennifer A Maynard CVProfessorBiotechnology · Protein therapeutics · Vaccine development · Applied immunology and microbiology
No classes listed this year
Fatima A MerchantAdjunct associate professor
No classes listed this year
Jose del R Millan EvaluationsCVProfessor
BME 384J
Linda Jeanne NobleProfessor
No classes listed this year
Nuttada Panpradist Evaluations CVAssistant professorCell and tissue engineering · Biosensor and instrumentation
BME 335, BME 377T, BME 381J
BME 343, BME 374D, BME 386J
Nicholas A Peppas Evaluations CVProfessorBiomaterials · Controlled drug delivery · Modeling of biomedical devices · Bionanotechnology
BME 372C, BME 377T, BME 382J
Tyrone PorterProfessorImage-guided drug delivery · Ultrasound · Acoustics
No classes listed this year
Daniel Puperi EvaluationsCVAssistant professor of instruction
BME 214L, BME 245L, BME 261L, BME 303L
Manuel Karl RauschAssociate professorSoft tissue biomechanics · Nonlinear continuum mechanics · Numerical modeling · Material characterization and constitutive modeling
No classes listed this year
Pengyu Ren Evaluations CVProfessorMolecular modeling of biological systems · Computational drug discovery
BME 350, BME 355
Christopher G Rylander CVAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Michael S Sacks Evaluations CVProfessorCardiovascular biomechanics · Computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system · Advanced constitutive models · Biomechanical interactions of cells
BME 373
Samantha Rose Santacruz Evaluations CVAssistant professorNeural engineering · Brain-machine interfaces · Neurotherapeutic devices · Neuromodulation
BME 335, BME 384J
Stephanie K Seidlits Evaluations CVAssociate professorincluding spinal cord injury · traumatic brain injury and glioma formation
BME 365R, BME 369C, BME 382J
Michael H SmolenskyAdjunct professor
No classes listed this year
Jeanne Casstevens Stachowiak Evaluations CVProfessorBiophysical mechanisms · Cellular and biomolecular engineering · Molecular · cellular and tissue biomechanics
BME 377T, BME 382J
Laura J Suggs Evaluations CVProfessorCardiovascular tissue engineering · Adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis · Biologically active materials
BME 344, BME 352
David W TerresonAdjunct associate professor
No classes listed this year
James W Tunnell Evaluations CVProfessorDiagnostic and therapeutic optical technologies · Molecular imaging · Nanophotonics · Cancer
BME 347, BME 381J, BME 382M, BME 385J
Umberto Emanuele Villa CVAssistant professorComputational imaging · Photoacoustic and ultrasound CT · Dynamic contrast enhanced imaging · Virtual imaging trials
BME 313L
Huiliang Wang EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
BME 363, BME 365S, BME 384J
Thomas YankeelovProfessorMedical imaging · Computational oncology
No classes listed this year
Hsin-Chih Yeh Evaluations CVProfessorNanobiosensor development · Cancer biomarker detection · 3D molecular tracking and super-resolution imaging
BME 303, BME 354, BME 377T, BME 382J
Qian Yin Evaluations CVAssistant professor
BME 355, BME 366
Janeta Zoldan EvaluationsCVAssociate professor
BME 352, BME 379
Lecturers and instructors · 1
Kristen E Adams EvaluationsCVLecturer
BME 344, BME 353, BME 370, BME 371
Graduate and other instructors · 1
Ernesto Bueno da Fonseca Lima EvaluationsCV
BME 303

Who teaches each course

Department of Biomedical Engineering: who teaches each course
CourseTaught by
BME 197PMia K Markey
BME 197SMia K Markey
BME 214LDaniel Puperi
BME 245LDaniel Puperi
BME 261LDaniel Puperi
BME 303Hsin-Chih Yeh, Ernesto Bueno da Fonseca Lima
BME 303LDaniel Puperi
BME 311Adam Bush, Ted Ho
BME 313LEdward Castillo, Umberto Emanuele Villa
BME 335Nuttada Panpradist, Samantha Rose Santacruz
BME 336Amy Brock
BME 343Sapun Harshad Parekh
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Department of Biomedical Engineering: who teaches each course, continued
CourseTaught by
BME 344Laura J Suggs, Kristen E Adams
BME 344CGeorge Georgiou
BME 347James W Tunnell
BME 349Andrew K Dunn
BME 350Pengyu Ren
BME 352Laura J Suggs, Janeta Zoldan
BME 353Aaron Blair Baker, Kristen E Adams
BME 354Hsin-Chih Yeh
BME 355Pengyu Ren, Qian Yin
BME 359Aaron Blair Baker
BME 363Huiliang Wang
BME 364Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
BME 365RStephanie K Seidlits
BME 365SHuiliang Wang
BME 366Qian Yin
BME 369CStephanie K Seidlits
BME 370Kristen E Adams
BME 371Kristen E Adams
BME 372CNicholas A Peppas
BME 373Michael S Sacks
BME 374DSapun Harshad Parekh
BME 377TAdam Bush, Edward Castillo, Nuttada Panpradist, Nicholas A Peppas, Jeanne Casstevens Stachowiak, Hsin-Chih Yeh
BME 379Janeta Zoldan
BME 380JMia K Markey
BME 381JNuttada Panpradist, James W Tunnell
BME 382JAaron Blair Baker, Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, Nicholas A Peppas, Stephanie K Seidlits, Jeanne Casstevens Stachowiak, Hsin-Chih Yeh
BME 382MJames W Tunnell
BME 383JEdward Castillo
BME 384JJose del R Millan, Samantha Rose Santacruz, Huiliang Wang
BME 385JJames W Tunnell
BME 386JSapun Harshad Parekh
UGS 303Kenneth R Diller
Bachelor’s degrees1 program
Master’s degrees1 program
Doctoral degrees1 program
Pay after graduationUp to $102,500
Median pay after graduation by field
Field of study1 year out4 years out
Biomedical/Medical EngineeringBachelor’s · Biomedical engineering$76,800$102,500

Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs.

About the department

Department of Biomedical Engineering is part of Cockrell School of Engineering, led by Dean Roger T. Bonnecaze. Its course codes are BME.

SourcesUT catalog, HB 2504

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