Purdue University in Indianapolis may be new but Biomedical Engineering has been a part of the Indianapolis landscape for decades. As a part of the Purdue expansion to Indianapolis, the Biomedical Engineering department in Indianapolis officially joins the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

A major challenge in caring for our animal’s health is they cannot verbally tell us what is wrong with them.

Looking for an apple in a bowl of fruit, how do you locate the apple? Your brain must correctly bind together the location and features of each fruit. This “binding problem” is a significant challenge for artificial neural networks for object or scene recognition, which often have to add in attention mechanisms or memory-augmented architectures to mitigate the problem.

Twenty-three students from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, the College of Engineering and other Purdue University colleges and departments spent two weeks in Japan visiting medical device companies, universities, research facilities and government agencies.

Twenty-seven high school students toured the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering as a part of the 2024 Health Science Institute.

A first-of-its-kind Virtual Reality (VR) Anatomy Lab course was created in 2023 to help prepare Purdue Biomedical Engineering students for their future careers in biomedical sciences.

Radhika Kulkarni, who is a Supplier Quality Engineer at Boston Scientific, has an internship opportunity and other undergraduate experiences to thank for her current role.

The increasing need for precise dietary monitoring across various health scenarios has led to innovations in wearable sensing technologies. A smart neckband allows wearers to monitor their dietary intake.