Biomedical Engineering (MS): MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration
Degree Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | 24 | |
| MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship I - Needs Discovery | ||
| MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship II - Design and Regulation | ||
| MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship III - Product Development | ||
| Medical Device Materials and Manufacturing | ||
| Global Regulatory Affairs for Medical Products | ||
| Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization I | ||
or MBA 848A & MBA 848B at UNC-CH * | ||
| Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization II | ||
or MBA 848C & MBA 848D at UNC-CH * | ||
| Internship/Entrepreneurship Elective | 3 | |
| Students can choose between BME 650, which requires completion of an internships with a medical technology company/consultancy, or 3 credit hours of MBA electives from the Poole College of Management at NC State or from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. | ||
| Technical Elective Course | 3 | |
| Select a minimum of three credit hours of 500-level or 700-level technical coursework from the following course prefixes: BME, CHE, CE, ECE, ISE, MSE, MAE, or NE as approved in conjunction with the program advisor ** | ||
| Total Hours | 30 | |
- *
Required MBA courses must be completed at either NC State or UNC-CH. Student must complete either MIE 576 and MIE 577 or MBA 848A, MBA 848B, MBA 848C and MBA 848D.
- **
Other graduate courses in applied or technical fields at NC State or UNC-Chapel Hill as approved in conjunction with the program advisor.
Faculty
Department Chair
- Paul Dayton
Associate Chairs
- Lianne Cartee, Associate Chair for Education
- Shawn Gomez, Associate Chair for Research
Directors
- Lianne Cartee, Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Matthew Fisher, Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Director
- Naji Husseini, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Distinguished Professors
- Ashley Carson Brown, Lampe Distinguished Professor
- Lianne Cartee, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
- Paul Dayton, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
- Gregory Forest, Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
- Caterina M. Gallippi, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor
- Harvinder Gill, Ronald B. and Cynthia J. McNeill Term Professor
- He (Helen) Huang, Jackson Family Distinguished Professor
- Weili Lin, Dixie Lee Boney Soo Distinguished Professor
- H. Troy Nagle
- Roger Narayan
- Koji Sode, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
- George (Rick) Stouffer, Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor
Professors
- Ashley Brown
- Lianne Cartee
- Michael Daniele
- Paul Dayton
- Matthew Fisher
- Gregory Forest
- Jason Franz
- Caterina M. Gallippi
- Shawn Gomez
- H. Troy Nagle Jr.
- Derek Kamper
- Weili Lin
- Scott T. Magness
- George (Rick) Stouffer
- John F. Muth
- David Zaharoff
Associate Professors
- Rahima Benhabbour
- Yevgeny Brudno
- Jacqueline Cole
- Bob Dennis
- Brian Diekman
- Kenneth Donnelly
- Oleg Favorov
- Donald Freytes
- Michael Gamcsik
- David Hill
- Devin Hubbard
- Naji Husseini
- David Lalush
- Wes Legant
- Ming Liu
- Jeffrey Macdonald
- Adriana San Miguel
- Virginie Papadopoulou
- Matthew Penny
- Ross Petrella
- William Polacheck
- Imran Rizvi
- Nitin Sharma
- Emir Uzay
- Anka Veleva
- Michael Wiggin
Assistant Professors
- Amy Adkins Alvarez
- Joseph Burclaff
- Melissa Caughey
- Silvia Ceballos
- Phillip Durham
- Alon Greenbaum
- Geoff Handsfield
- Michael Jay
- Kennita Johnson
- Jinwook Kim
- Margo MacDonald
- Varun Nalam
- Hayley Richardson
- Rinku Roy
- Francisco Santibanez
- Sarah Shelton
- Cameron Taylor
- Michael Wilkins
- Ian Andrew Williamson
- Amol Yadav
Lecturers
- Kevin R. Grayson
- Nick Jardine