Undergraduate Programs
Apply your natural sciences background to bioengineering problems, research, and innovations
Knight Campus teams use engineering strategies to advance human health in areas like regenerative medicine, human performance, biomaterials, sensors, and neural engineering.
Undergraduate Programs
What Is Bioengineering?
Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field that applies engineering principles and quantitative methods to advance knowledge at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and system levels, and to develop new biologicals, materials, devices, and processes.
Bioengineers invent new materials to repair musculoskeletal injuries, sense physiological markers like blood sugar in the body, regenerate tissue, and build interfaces between computers and the nervous system.
Minor
Undergraduate Minor in Bioengineering
Apply your natural sciences background to bioengineering problems, research, and innovations. The minor is also a great way to meet Knight Campus faculty and students and start conversations about joining a research group.
Hands-On Learning
Learn through experiential approaches, including hands-on work in our bioengineering teaching labs.
Innovative Electives
Take elective courses in technologies like 3D printing, protein engineering, and biomaterials.
Career Ready
Prepare for a career in the biotech industry or for graduate training in bioengineering, medicine, or law.
For course of study, sample schedules, and advising information:
Summer Research
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Jumpstart your research training. The Department of Bioengineering offers a summer research program with a variety of research topics across bioengineering, giving you direct experience in a top-tier research facility.
10
Weeks
100%
Fully Funded
Research Areas
Biomaterials Medical Sensors and Devices Protein Engineering and Synthetic Biology Neural Engineering Biomedical Data Science Regenerative Rehabilitation and Human Performance
Get Involved
Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering
Research is a great way to immerse yourself in an applied field like bioengineering. Knight Campus teams use engineering strategies to advance human health in areas like regenerative medicine, human performance, biomaterials, sensors, and neural engineering.
How to Get Started
1
Find Your Interests
Explore faculty and research group websites to figure out which research areas interest you most.
2
Learn the Field
Attend research seminars, read papers, and talk with classmates who are already doing research.
3
Reach Out to Faculty
Email faculty in your area of interest. Share your background and why their research interests you, and ask if they're recruiting undergraduates.
4
Apply to KCUS
Consider the Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars Program, our dedicated program for undergraduate research.
Undergraduate research in bioengineering will help you:
✓Design and execute research plans to discover and invent
✓Translate discoveries into processes, devices, and solutions that advance human health
✓Explore and refine your professional goals
✓Develop critical thinking and professional skills to fuel your future studies and career
Got Questions? We've Got Answers.
Send us your questions about any of our undergraduate programs, and one of our advisors will contact you as soon as possible.