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Graduate Certificate: Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship
Graduate Certificate: Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship
The graduate certificate in medical device design and entrepreneurship includes nine credits of coursework and three credits of project work. Anyone who is interested in a graduate certificate is eligible to apply.
Required courses
- BIOE 5054 Regulatory Affairs (3 credits)
- BIOE 5420 Biomedical Device Design and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- One bioengineering elective (3 credits)
- Entrepreneurship project (3 credits)
Past projects
Past projects include Substantial Equivalence Analysis to Support Regulatory Approval for a Medical Device; Freedom to Operate Analysis of New Orthopedic Instrument; Design and Development of a Novel Heart Valve Fixation Device; Optimization of a Gel to Close Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Endoleaks; In vitro evaluation of a Novel Biomarker for Reflux Disease; Characterization of Bone Analogs to Study Orthopedic Device Fixation; A Novel Shape Memory Polymer Hernia Patch: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies; and others.
Ongoing/new projects
Ongoing / new projects are available on: New Device for Microbiome Sampling; New Surgical Instruments for Hip Arthroscopy; Development of a Business Plan around a Novel Method for Evaluating Reflux Disease; New Devices for Vascular Embolization; Biochemical Sensors for More Sensitive Cancer Detection; Minimally Invasive Techniques to Characterize GI Inflammation in COVID-19; Simulation Tools to Optimize Battlefield Triage; and many others. You are welcome to propose your own project as well.
