Design Program

The Design Program at U-M BME is an intensive, hands-on program that places students in a simulated incubator environment, solving problems for real clients with faculty guidance and professional mentorship. Each course builds upon previous offerings to produce innovative, industry-ready biomedical engineers.

• Exposure to intellectual property, funding, and budgeting
• Commercialization resources and mentors from the Michigan Ross School of Business and U-M Center for Entrepreneurship.
• Builds a network of professional contacts and portfolio of design work
• Specialization options in areas such as global health design.

CLIENTS

Higher education

• College of Engineering
• Medical School
• Medical Innovation Center
• Venturewell

Medical device development

• Blaze medical devices
• Medical innovations international
• National instruments
• Texas Instruments
• Terumo
• Lectronics

Imaging

• Xoran technologies

Tissue engineering

• Innovative Biotherapies
• Lake Region Medical
• MC3

Pharmaceuticals

• Pfizer

Stimulation and drug delivery

• Medtronic
• NeuroNexus

Marketing & Design

• Solidworks
• Surowinski group