<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Biomed on a pre-med track!</p>
<p>I’m in engineering right now and everyone & their mother (a phrase I use a lot) in bio-E is generally a pre-med (and most are honors as well). With that said, I think doing it at Pitt is a great advantage because of the fantastic pre-med & med facilities available. Also you’ll have a great support group of fellow pre-med bioEs that you might not see otherwise.</p>
<p>I actually visited this Saturday and loved the environment and people! I’m from Philadelphia, wanting to get away yet still find a solid program. How would you describe the research, if you’ve done any, and equipment. Since the Engineering building is under construction right now, I couldn’t get a sneek-peek inside the building. Would you happen to know if Tissue Engineering(Concentration) is good/well-known at Pitt?</p>
<p>Just a random question, but what is Pitt known for?</p>
<p>Pitt is mostly known for its medical school. The law school is also decently ranked.</p>
<p>Pitt is great!</p>
<p>To ParthPanch:</p>
<p>I’m not sure, Benedum is under construction but if you visited you should have been allowed to go inside and ride the elevators to the research floors…? I wonder why they didn’t let you…</p>
<p>Anyways have you checked the Engineering site? They list all the research labs by department I think and what each one is currently studying. </p>
<p>This is a list of labs by department: [Swanson</a> School of Engineering: University of Pittsburgh](<a href=“http://www.engr.pitt.edu/research/labs.html]Swanson”>http://www.engr.pitt.edu/research/labs.html)
And here is a tissue-lab I found under the BioE: [NTE</a> Lab Home](<a href=“http://www.engr.pitt.edu/cui/]NTE”>NTE Lab)</p>
<p>Not sure if that’s what you’re thinking of. Have a look around the first link and check out what looks interesting. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>I would say the bio-E dept is pretty solid. If you’re going into tissue engineering, Pitt is also a great place to be because they have the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and there’s also another place that does tissue engineering (not related to Upitt, but they’re in Pittsburgh… I can’t remember their exact name at the moment). If you ever have time, look at Dr. Gerlach’s work on his skin gun, [Military</a> Medicine: The War on Wounds | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/136309]Military”>Military Medicine: The War on Wounds - Newsweek) … and this guy works for Pitt! </p>
<p>I’m a freshman, so I haven’t seen the full potentioal of the Bio-E dept yet, but I’ve already got an internship doing stem cell research here during the summer with a Pitt professor. To me, that says a lot.</p>
<p>oh wow. Thanks for the input AwesomeOpossum…</p>
<p>Emi2008, are you minoring in any area? I was thinking of minoring in Neuroscience. I thought that would be interesting to go along with the bioengineering major…</p>
<p>Bioengineering typically has a minor with it. I know people in biomechanics get an automatic minor in mechanical engineering and biomaterials get an automatic minor in chemistry. I’m not sure how hard it would be to minor in neuroscience- sometimes minors are easy because most of the requirements overlap with your major requirements, but some minors require classes that you simply don’t have time for.</p>
<p>You might want to look at these sites. Here is a typical bioengineers schedule for 4 years: <a href=“http://www.engr.pitt.edu/bioengineering/doc/undergraduate/BIOENGINEERING%20UNDERGRADUATE%20CURRICULUM%2007-08.pdf[/url]”>http://www.engr.pitt.edu/bioengineering/doc/undergraduate/BIOENGINEERING%20UNDERGRADUATE%20CURRICULUM%2007-08.pdf</a></p>
<p>And here are the requirements for a neuroscience minor: [Degree</a> Requirements | Department of Neuroscience | University of Pittsburgh](<a href=“http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/programs/undergraduate/degree-requirements.php]Degree”>http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/programs/undergraduate/degree-requirements.php)</p>
<p>For the minor you need 14 credits. With bioengineering, you have a pretty hefty schedule as it is, so you might not be able to do it all in 4 years, but I haven’t looked into the details. You could take summer classes or stay longer. However, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible. You may be able to take the neuroscience courses as electives that go towards your engineering requirement. It all depends on whether or not you want to dedicate that much time into getting the minor and if you have the time & money.</p>
<p>Either way, I’m not an advisor, so I can’t say for sure… but I hope the links help you get an idea! :)</p>
<p>i also know that pitt has a neural engineering graduate program… if you r interested in that, the site says that generally people go for a BioE undergrad, and then apply for the neural engineering grad program</p>
<p>[Neural</a> Engineering | McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine](<a href=“http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/neuro/]Neural”>http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/neuro/)</p>