AIMBE’s Academic Council is composed of leading educational programs in medical and biological engineering at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Department chairs generally serve as representatives to the Council, many of whom are elected members of the prestigious AIMBE College of Fellows.

The Council’s member institutions play critical roles in educating the next generation of scientists, serving as innovation hubs to investigate new scientific frontiers, and enabling groundbreaking research to be translated into use in the marketplace.

Medical and biological engineering educational programs are undergoing tremendous change as the fields grow and take on new shapes; as research funding becomes more difficult to secure; and as the student population, and their desired academic experiences, shifts. AIMBE’s Academic Council serves as a venue to come together and discuss these current issues and acts as a forum to raise the national visibility and advocate for the fields of medical and biological engineering.

In addition to networking with department chairs, participation in the Academic Council enables you to recognize your faculty by submitting nominations to the AIMBE College of Fellows, as well as the Emerging Leaders Program.

The AIMBE Academic Council provides several opportunities to engage with Members of Congress through congressional visits and lawmaker briefings on medical and biological engineering topics.

We also offer travel awards for AC members’ students to attend AIMBE’s annual Public Policy Institute, a two-day workshop in Washington, DC on the intersection of science and public policy.

The Academic Council meets twice yearly in-person, once at the BMES conference in the fall and once at the AIMBE Annual Event in the spring, as well as quarterly via zoom for additional networking.

AIMBE has released new data on the impact of disruptions to biomedical engineering research and training. AIMBE surveyed over 100 biomedical engineering departments across the country, making us uniquely positioned to gather critical, nationwide insights from academic leaders in the field.

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• Academic Council Institutions

• Arizona State University
• Binghamton University, State University of New York
• Boston University
• Brown University
• Bucknell University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• City College of New York
• Clemson University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Drexel University
• Duke University
• Florida A&M University-Florida State University
• Florida International University
• George Mason University
• George Washington University
• Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Iowa State University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Louisiana Tech University
• Marquette University & Medical College of Wisconsin
• Marshall University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Biological Engineering
• Michigan State University
• Michigan Technological University
• MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• New York University
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• Northeastern University
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• Oregon State University
• Penn State University
• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
• Purdue University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rice University
• Rowan University
• Rutgers University
• Stanford University
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Stony Brook University
• Syracuse University
• Temple University
• Texas A&M University
• Tufts University
• Tulane University
• University at Buffalo
• University of Akron
• University of Arizona
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Central Florida
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Connecticut
• University of Delaware
• University of Florida
• University of Houston
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Kansas
• University of Louisville
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Memphis & University of Tennessee Health Science Center
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Missouri
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & North Carolina State University
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas at Arlington
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas at Dallas
• University of Texas at El Paso
• University of Texas at San Antonio
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• University of Toledo
• University of Utah
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Utah State University
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Virginia Tech — Wake Forest University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wayne State University
• Western New England University
• Wichita State University
• Widener University
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Yale University