2009-2010 Bulletin â PDF - SEAS Bulletin - Columbia University
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING<br />
351 Engineering Terrace, MC 8904, 212-854-4460; bme@columbia.edu<br />
www.bme.columbia.edu<br />
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CHAIR<br />
Van C. Mow<br />
VICE CHAIR<br />
Andrew F. Laine<br />
DEPARTMENTAL<br />
ADMINISTRATOR<br />
Shila Maghji<br />
BUSINESS MANAGER<br />
Kidest Shenkoru<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDI-<br />
NATOR FOR STUDENT<br />
AFFAIRS<br />
Jarmaine Lomax<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT<br />
FOR FISCAL AFFAIRS<br />
Michelle Cintron<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT<br />
FOR DEPARTMENTAL<br />
AFFAIRS<br />
Paulette Louisaint<br />
LABORATORY MANAGER<br />
Keith Yeager<br />
COMPUTER SYSTEMS<br />
ADMINISTRATOR<br />
Robert J. Foster<br />
CHAIR OF UNDERGRADUATE<br />
STUDIES<br />
Barclay Morrison III<br />
CHAIR OF GRADUATE<br />
STUDIES<br />
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic<br />
OMBUDS<br />
Lance Kam<br />
PROFESSORS<br />
Gerard H. A. Ateshian<br />
Truman R. Brown<br />
Percy Kay and Vida L. W.<br />
Hudson Professor<br />
X. Edward Guo<br />
Clark T. Hung<br />
Andrew F. Laine<br />
Edward F. Leonard<br />
Van C. Mow<br />
Stanley Dicker Professor<br />
Michael P. Sheetz<br />
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic<br />
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS<br />
Henry Hess<br />
Andreas H. Hielscher<br />
Christopher R. Jacobs<br />
Elisa E. Konofagou<br />
Helen H. Lu<br />
Jeremy J. Mao<br />
Barclay Morrison III<br />
Paul Sajda<br />
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS<br />
Elizabeth Hillman<br />
Hayden Huang<br />
Lance C. Kam<br />
Samuel K. Sia<br />
JOINT FACULTY<br />
Dimitris Anastassiou<br />
Professor of Electrical<br />
Engineering<br />
Aniruddha Das<br />
Assistant Professor of<br />
Psychiatry<br />
Shunichi Homma<br />
Margaret Milliken Hatch<br />
Professor of Medicine<br />
Elizabeth S. Olson<br />
Assistant Professor of<br />
Otolaryngology/Head and<br />
Neck Surgery<br />
R. Theodore Smith<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Ophthalmology<br />
ADJUNCT PROFESSORS<br />
Ernest Feleppa<br />
Shiro Matsuoka<br />
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE<br />
PROFESSOR<br />
Nicolas W. Chbat<br />
AFFILIATES<br />
Peter K. Allen<br />
Professor of Computer<br />
Science<br />
Ernest W. April<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Anatomy and Cell Biology<br />
Robert DeLaPaz<br />
Professor of Radiology<br />
Kung Ming Jan<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Clinical Medicine<br />
Jung-Chi Liao<br />
Assistant Professor of<br />
Mechanical Engineering<br />
Zheng Feng Lu<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Clinical Radiology<br />
Richard N. Pierson<br />
Professor of Clinical<br />
Medicine<br />
John Pile-Spellman<br />
Professor of Radiology and<br />
Neurosurgery<br />
Henry M. Spotnitz<br />
George G. Humphreys II<br />
Professor of Surgery<br />
Biomedical engineering is an<br />
evolving discipline in engineering<br />
that draws on collaboration<br />
among engineers, physicians, and scientists<br />
to provide interdisciplinary insight<br />
into medical and biological problems.<br />
The field has developed its own knowledge<br />
base and principles that are the<br />
foundation for the academic programs<br />
designed by the Department of<br />
Biomedical Engineering at <strong>Columbia</strong>.<br />
The programs in biomedical engineering<br />
at <strong>Columbia</strong> (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.,<br />
Eng.Sc.D., and M.D./Ph.D.) prepare students<br />
to apply engineering and applied<br />
science to problems in biology, medicine,<br />
and the understanding of living systems<br />
and their behavior, and to develop<br />
biomedical systems and devices.<br />
Modern engineering encompasses<br />
sophisticated approaches to measurement,<br />
data acquisition and analysis,<br />
simulation, and systems identification.<br />
These approaches are useful in the study<br />
of individual cells, organs, entire organisms,<br />
and populations of organisms. The<br />
increasing value of mathematical models<br />
in the analysis of living systems is an<br />
important sign of the success of contemporary<br />
activity. The programs offered<br />
in the Department of Biomedical<br />
Engineering seek to emphasize the confluence<br />
of basic engineering science and<br />
applied engineering with the physical<br />
and biological sciences, particularly in<br />
the areas of biomechanics, cell and tissue<br />
engineering, and biomedical imaging.<br />
Programs in biomedical engineering are<br />
taught by its own faculty, members of<br />
other <strong>SEAS</strong> departments, and faculty from<br />
other <strong>University</strong> divisions who have strong<br />
interests and involvement in biomedical<br />
engineering. Several of the faculty hold joint<br />
appointments in Biomedical Engineering<br />
and other <strong>University</strong> departments.<br />
Courses offered by the Department<br />
of Biomedical Engineering are complemented<br />
by courses offered by other<br />
departments in The Fu Foundation<br />
School of Engineering and Applied<br />
Science, and by many departments in<br />
the Faculty of Medicine, the School of<br />
Dentistry and Oral Surgery, and the<br />
Mailman School of Public Health, as well<br />
<strong>SEAS</strong> <strong>2009</strong>–<strong>2010</strong>