About Us
At the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, we are entering an exciting era. Bioindustry is expanding at an ever-increasing rate in the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and the research and funding opportunities for our faculty remain at an all-time high. The department is well-positioned to educate students for the large number of new jobs that will result from this expansion. We are increasing the size of our faculty and facilities to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest quality educational experience for our students. We have an active industrial internship program and continue to secure research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, DARPA, and other national, regional and local funding agencies.
Through the generosity of the Whitaker Foundation, we have strengthened our neural engineering and rehabilitation research thrusts and develop a new thrust in molecular, cell and tissue engineering research. This work is in partnership with Banner Health, the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, the Barrow Neurological Institute, the VA Medical Center, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and our colleagues in the Biodesign Institute, ASUs Molecular and Cell Biology Program and other colleges within ASU. Additional research areas presently targeted for programmatic growth include biosensors and bioinstrumentation.
Academic Programs
• Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering (B.S.E.)
• Master of Science in Bioengineering (M.S.)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering (Ph.D.)
Bioengineering Research Groups
• Neural Engineering and Informatics Laboratory
• Neuro-Mechanical Control and Rehabilitation Research Lab
• Sensorimotor Research Group
• Glycosciences and Technology Lab
• Center For Adaptive Neural Systems
• Laboratory of Cell-Biomaterial Interactions
• Neural Micro-systems Laboratory
• Brain Modeling Laboratory
• Applied Bioelectricity Laboratory
• Bioengineering Instrumentation Laboratory
• Laboratory for Bioengineering Materials
Accreditation
The B.S.E. Bioengineering degree program is accredited through A.B.E.T. (the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), which is the main governing body for engineering accreditation in the U.S. ABET serves the public through the promotion and advancement of education in applied science, computing, engineering and technology. For more information on ABET and engineering accreditation see http://www.abet.org. The B.S.E. Bioengineering degree program is one of a number of accredited engineering degree programs withiin the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. For more information on School of Engineering wide efforts to continuously improve the quality of undergraduate degree programs, including Bioengineering, see http://www.eas.asu.edu/~ec2000/.