Laboratories and Facilities available to Biomedical Engineering students

Biomedical Engineering Projects Laboratory (Science & Technology Center Building, Room 252) contains standard electronics equipment (digital oscilloscopes, signal generators, power supplies, electronics components, electronics breadboards, etc.) and personal computers for teaching laboratories and for individual or group design/research projects.

Cell and Tissue Culture Laboratories (Science & Technology Center Building, jointly run with Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rooms 283, 285, 286) For maintaining, growth and study of mammalian cell lines, tissue culture and tissue engineering and related needs. Facilities include carbon dioxide incubators, biosafety cabinets, microscopes.

Fermentation/Bioprocessing Laboratories (Science & Technology Center Building, jointly run with Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rooms 166, 167A)

Human Factors/Ergonomics in Remote Environments (Science & Technology Center Building, jointly run with Mechanical Engineering, Room 156)

Materials Characterization - Keck Laboratory and X-ray Facility (Science & Technology Center Building, jointly run with Departments of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Room 211) Biophysical characterization laboratory including Circular Dichroism, Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry, Fourier Transform Raman Infrared Spectrometer with Microscope, Fluorescence Imaging, Gel Permeation Chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Atomic Force Microscopy, Near Field Optical Microscopy.

Molecular Biology Laboratories (Science & Technology Center Building, jointly run with Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rooms 157, 162, 164) PCR machines to perform DNA amplification, analysis, and purification, protein purification and characterization, SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, chromatography, HPLC.

Tissue Engineering Resource Center (TERC) (Science & Technology Center Building) - designed to advance fundamental and translational aspects of functional tissue engineering through scientific discovery, collaborations, training for investigators, and dissemination of scientific findings and new techniques to the tissue engineering community.

Additional details on core research labs available at the Bioengineering Center and the Atomic Force Microscope lab.