Should I major in bioengineering?
- You're fascinated by both engineering and biology.
- You're eager to solve problems in the areas of health care, medicine, and biotechnology, in emerging fields like biomedicine, biomaterials, wearable technology for health, and personalized medicine.
- You're deeply curious about tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, biopharmaceutical engineering, biocomputational engineering, and biomedical instrumentation.
- You’re interested in designing and bringing to market medical devices, diagnostics, and systems for health care delivery and management.
Lehigh's highly interdisciplinary bioengineering program bridges rigorous training in engineering and the physical sciences with biology and bioengineering applications. Students design biomedical and diagnostic devices, build new platforms for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and create innovative therapeutics and drug delivery systems. The program offers opportunities for experiential learning via extended research with faculty members, team-based and industry-sponsored design projects, and seminar courses.
