Biomedical
Orthopedics. Tissue modeling. Even the future of robotic microsurgery. Purdue’s focus on Bioengineering brings many disciplines together at world-class facilities. Biomechanics can be tested on a human scale, while cutting-edge disease detection and treatment can be explored on the nanoscopic level. Whether it’s the impact of a car seat on someone’s posture, or the impact of pharmacology on microorganisms, Purdue researchers are at the forefront of biomedical engineering.
Faculty in Biomedical
- Fluid dynamics
- Biomaterial
- Multiphase flows
- Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics
- Microfluidics
- Complex fluids
- Soft matter
- Growing robots
- Soft robotics
- Bioinspired systems
- Wearable robots
- Haptics
- Soft matter
- Predictive computational tools for biological adaptation processes
- Tissue expansion
- Wound healing
- Reconstructive surgery optimization
- Numerical methods for biological membranes
- Multi-scale robotic manipulation and assembly
- Mobile micro/nano robotics
- Micro/nano aerial vehicles
- Micro-Bio robotics
- Mechatronics
- MEMS/NEMS
- Automation for the life sciences
- Modeling, Experiments and Simulations of turbulent boundary layers: role of initial conditions and bio-inspired micro-surfaces on evolution of velocity/thermal fields.
- Importance of turbulence and complex topography on wind energy.
- Integration of renewable with water and thermal storage.
- Translational research focus on renewable energy & society
- Wall interaction (e.g., bio-inspired micro surfaces) in respiratory flows
- Big data in turbulence, renewable energy and biomedical engineering.
- Energy and social equality
- Dynamic systems and control
- Mechatronics
- Digital and functional printing and fabrication
- Motion and vibration control and perception
- Embedded systems and real-time control
- DNA nanotechnology
- Advanced materials
- Bio-inspired and mechanically adaptive electronics
- Multimaterial additive fabrication
- Soft actuators (artificial muscles)
- Wearable actuators (haptics)
- Polymer design and polymer physics
- Deformation sensors and transistors
- Soft hydraulics
- Fluid dynamics
- Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
- Particulate and multiphase processes
- Computational and data-enabled science & engineering
- Scientific machine learning
- Nonlinear waves
- Modeling and simulation techniques for multiphase and multiphysics problems using the phase-field method.
- Isogeometric methods with applications in fluid and solid mechanics.
- Modeling and simulation tools for several biomechanics problems, including tumor growth, cellular migration and blood flow at small scales.
- Computational methods for fluid-structure interaction, especially when the problem involves complex fluids.
- Predictive, multi-scale modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in confined granular systems, with an emphasis in manufacturing processes and the relationship between product fabrication and performance.
- Application areas of interest include:
- (i) particulate products and processes (e.g., flow, mixing, segregation, consolidation, and compaction of powders),
- (ii) continuous manufacturing (e.g., Quality by Design, model predictive control, and reduced order models), and
- (iii) performance of pharmaceutical solid products (e.g., tensile strength, stiffness, swelling and disintegration), biomaterials (e.g., transport and feeding of corn stover) and energetic materials (e.g., deformation and heat generation under quasi-static, near-resonant and impact conditions, and formation and growth of hot spots) materials.
- Sustainable energy and environment
- Combustion and turbulent reacting flows
- Combustion and heat transfer in materials
- Biomedical flows and heat transfer
- Global policy research
- Thermal stresses, thermal fracture and fatigue of advanced materials, in particular high temperature materials, ceramic coatings.
- Mechanical behavior, design and remodeling of biological tissues, effect of stresses on remodeling, microbiomechanics of cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions, tissue engineering
- Wearable biomedical devices
- 'Crack’-driven transfer printing technology
- Scalable manufacturing technology
- Mechanics and materials for flexible/stretchable electronics
- Acoustic tweezers
- Acoustofluidics
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Ultrasound control
- Underwater communication
- Ultrasound imaging
- Multiphysics wave propagation theory
- Noise control and energy harvesting
- Naturally nanostructured materials
- Energy, water, and wearable technology
- Manufacturing
- Bio-inspired designs
- Surface engineering and multifunctional materials
- Convergent Manufacturing for Industry 5.0: hybrid manufacturing processes, heterogeneous materials, and bio-inspired designs
- Systems integration, productization, and production
- Heavy-duty machines: machining, lubrication, and corrosion
- Heterogeneous and hierarchical integration (mechanical-electrical-optical and nano-micro-meso-macro)
- Precision agricultural and food: cellular agriculture, vertical farming, micro-production, and resilience
- Frugal engineering, social innovations, and social equity
- Manufacturing in space
- MEMS, nanotechnology
- BioMEMS
- Biosensors
- Protein detection
- Aptamers (Nucleic-acid-based receptor molecules)
- Solid mechanics, multiscale and multiphysics modeling.
- Design of engineering material systems.
- Fracture and fatigue.
- Microarchitectured materials.
- Biomechanics of soft and hard tissues.
- Measurement science and instrumentation
- Particle image velocimetry
- Quantification of uncertainty
- Multi-phase flows
- Flow induced vibrations and hydro-kinetic energy
- Biological flows
- Biofluid mechanics
- Biomedical cardiovascular devices
- Heart failure and diastolic dysfunction
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Metrology
- Optomechanics
- Mass spectrometry
- Contact mechanics
- Microfluidic MEMS devices
- Development of new microfluidic diagnostic techniques
- Biological flows at the cellular level
- Micro-scale laminar mixing
- Flow transitions and instabilities
- Biomanufacturing and biopreservation
- Microfluidics
- Biotransport
- Micro/nano biomedical devices
- Diagnostics
- Multiscale superfast 3D optical sensing
- Biophotonic imaging
- Optical metrology
- Machine/computer vision
- 3D video telepresence
- 3D video processing
- Virtual reality
- Human computer interaction