The Department of Biomedical Engineering provides a strong suite of laboratories dedicated to undergraduate education plus a rich variety of research laboratories.

The long-standing and close collaborative relationship between the Department of Biomedical Engineering and surrounding medical institutions offers students a variety of additional research opportunities and facilities. The Milwaukee County Medical Complex (housing the Medical College of Wisconsin and several hospitals) and the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center are located within four miles of campus.

Key areas of reseach strength are functional imaging and rehabilitative bioengineering.

Listed below are the key centers and laboratories used by our students:

Undergraduate BIEN Teaching Laboratories
Few ABET-accredited biomedical engineering programs feature such a dedicated set of hands-on labs for undergraduate education (e.g., 4 labs with 40 computers, 20 oscilloscopes, various physiologic sensing capabilities, a force platform, materials testing)

Physiology, Signal Processing, and Biotelemetry Laboratories
Considerable opportunities exist for graduate students in labs that specialize in these areas of well-known strength. These research labs support both the M.S. & Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and the Ph.D. in Functional Imaging.

Functional Imaging Laboratories
All three campuses (Marquette, MCW, Zablicki VAMC) possess labs that support the joint MU-MCW functional imaging Ph.D. program. Unique capabilities include functional MRI facilities at MCW and the joint MU-MCW Keck Center for Microfocal Imaging at VAMC.

Orthopedic Rehabilitation Engineering Center (OREC)
This Center, established as a joint partnership between Marquette and MCW in 1999, consists of a collection of laboratories and talent under the directorship of Dr. Gerald Harris.

Falk Neurorehabilitation Engineering Research Center & Neurorehab Labs
These 5 laboratories on the Marquette campus and one at the Zablocki VAMC target neuromotor control, neuroevaluation, neuromechanics, telerehabilitation, and rehabilitation robotics, and are used for over 20 biomedical engineering graduate student projects.

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Accessible Medical Instrumentation
This Center, initiated in 2003 with $900,000/yr in funding for 5 years, is based in our program but with partners in California, Wisconsin and Connecticut. Our Medical Device Accessibility & Usability Lab is the core lab presence of the RERC.

Neuroscience Biomechanics Laboratory
The laboratory includes various experimental and mathematical modeling capabilities. CT, MRI, fluoroscopy and other related techniques are used to evaluate the biomechanics.

VAMC Neuroscience Biomechanics
These state-of-the-art neuromechanics laboratories, directed by Drs. Pintar and Yogananthan (both with Ph.D.'s from our program in the 1980s), have a long history of involving our graduate students in human impact and injury research.