Twentieth Anniversary Celebration
Bioengineering through the years
Officially welcoming our first class in 2004, bioengineering at Illinois traces its origins to the groundbreaking research conducted six decades earlier by faculty like ultrasound pioneers William Fry and Floyd Dunn in the Electrical Engineering Research Lab (EERL), which stood on what is now the Bardeen Quad. Another prominent faculty member was affiliate professor Paul Lauterbur, who received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revolutionized the medical profession and continues to be a significant area of study in the department of bioengineering.
Bioengineering was originally (1973) an undergraduate degree program housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) before becoming an official department in the college of engineering in 2003. The range of disciplines involved in the department of bioengineering has increased greatly over time, with research continuing to evolve in the area of bioimaging at multi-scale and further expanding in molecular, cellular and tissue engineering, bio-micro and nanotechnology, computational bioengineering, synthetic bioengineering and health care systems engineering.
20th anniversary essays
To commemorate this important milestone we are collecting stories and reflections from our faculty, students, and alumni about the impact and significance of the department of bioengineering.
BIOE 20th Anniversary Reception at BMES (Baltimore, MD)
7:00 PM
Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland
20th Anniversary Frontiers of Bioengineering Research Symposium
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Everitt Laboratory and IHotel & Conference Center
20th Anniversary Seminar Series
In honor of our twentieth year, the department has assembled a group of preeminent researchers in the field of bioengineering to share their groundbreaking insights.
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