Head of Department
Biomedical Engineering aims to design, develop, produce and efficiently use devices and biomaterials used for diagnosis, treatment and research purposes in order to solve the problems encountered in the field of health.
Biomedical Engineering is an interdisciplinary field that allows working in cooperation with medicine, basic science and engineering fields such as biology, physics, chemistry, machinery, electrical electronics and computers. Our program aims to train effective Biomedical Engineers in the field with the support of its strong Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences staff, Clinical Simulation and Advanced Endoscopic-Robotic Surgery Training Center-CASE and its campus equipped with advanced technology.
Although the Department of Biomedical Engineering mainly focuses on health, it serves the health sector in a wide variety of fields. From biomaterials to tissue engineering, from nanobiotechnology to bioengineering, from biotechnological medicine to molecular modeling, from the development of point of care diagnostic systems for the diagnosis of diseases with biosensor technologies, to targeted drug release systems, to the development of methods that can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases by processing big health data with artificial intelligence technologies, medical imaging and image processing. It has a wide range of fields of study, from sport science to the development of physical therapy and rehabilitation applications by combining them with biomechanical engineering applications.
For this reason, we have created focus areas such as biomaterials, nanobiotechnology and clinical engineering by concentrating our elective courses in our project-oriented curriculum in these areas. In our Clinical Innovation and Biodesign course, which we carry out completely in the form of practice, our students visit many different clinical departments, identify real-time clinical problems with their observations there, and present projects that will bring solutions to these problems. Our students, who have gained experience with such courses since the day they started the Biomedical Engineering Program, also specialize in different subjects with the rich elective courses they take in the focus areas I mentioned after creating a solid infrastructure with the basic engineering courses they take.
Our students can do their summer internships in companies or hospitals that are suitable for their interests, as well as by being involved in the scientific studies of the faculty members. At the same time, they can get long or short-term internship opportunities in various sectors and fields in Acıbadem Healthcare Group companies. Here, they can do internships in various departments from R&D to quality in various health sectors, from clinical laboratories to biomedical departments to genetic diagnosis laboratories.
We have a highly equipped, dynamic faculty staff with overseas experience. This valuable team continues its research in the Biomaterials Center and Nanobiotechnology Center spread over an area of 1500 m2 equipped with the state of the art technologies. Starting from the first grade, our students have the opportunity to participate in our work in these centers according to their interests. Our students working in our projects supported by TUBITAK, European Union and our University Research Funds can also take part in these projects as TUBITAK scholarship holders. Our students have the opportunity to do a minor and double major in Computer Engineering, Molecular Biology and Genetics, as well as Psychology, Sociology and Health Management Departments.
Biomedical Engineering that brings together academic sciences, clinical and industrial fields, is rapidly developing and the need for Biomedical Engineers is increasing day by day. We, too, follow our graduates closely and are proud of them every day, because they find job opportunities in the world-renowned companies and universities, both in academics and industry, in Türkiye and abroad. The Biomedical Engineering Department works in direct cooperation with CASE. CASE houses a virtual hospital area, medical simulators and many of the medical devices used in the hospitals. Especially in recent years, since the design of smart materials, mathematical models and medical simulation systems have started to gain priority, the Department of Biomedical Engineering trains engineering students, who can design and develop new health technologies through the experience they gain at CASE.
Our Bio-design Center, which was established with the support of the Ministry of Development and Istanbul Development Agency, is a center where both our students and all other researchers can implement their health-oriented innovative ideas and produce prototypes of the products they have developed. In the “Design for Medicine” hackathons we organize periodically in this center, nearly a hundred students from different universities and departments compete in the established interdisciplinary teams and gain a very special experience on the situations they will encounter in real life with the products they have developed in different fields. In addition, the maturation of new business ideas in the field of health, their transformation into products and their implementation are also possible in our Incubation Center within our university. Thus, our Biomedical Engineering Department students graduate as Biomedical Engineers who are prone to teamwork, with high ethical values and open to continuous learning, by experiencing both clinical and industrial applications within the ecosystem that we have carefully designed since the day they first stepped into the department, taking part in multidisciplinary projects.