University Catalog 2024-2025

Biomedical Engineering (MS): MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration

Degree Requirements

Core Courses24
MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship I - Needs Discovery
MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship II - Design and Regulation
MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship III - Product Development
Medical Device Materials and Manufacturing
Global Regulatory Affairs for Medical Products
Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization I
or MBA 848A & MBA 848B at UNC-CH *
Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization II
or MBA 848C & MBA 848D at UNC-CH *
Internship/Entrepreneurship Elective3
Students can choose between BME 650, which requires completion of an internships with a medical technology company/consultancy, or 3 credit hours of MBA electives from the Poole College of Management at NC State or from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Technical Elective Course3
Select a minimum of three credit hours of 500-level or 700-level technical coursework from the following course prefixes: BME, CHE, CE, ECE, ISE, MSE, MAE, or NE as approved in conjunction with the program advisor **
Total Hours30
*

Required MBA courses must be completed at either NC State or UNC-CH. Student must complete either MBA 576 and MBA 577 or MBA 848A, MBA 848B, MBA 848C and MBA 848D.

**

Other graduate courses in applied or technical fields at NC State or UNC-Chapel Hill as approved in conjunction with the program advisor.

Faculty

Department Chair

  • Paul Dayton

Associate Chairs

  • Lianne Cartee, Associate Chair for Education
  • Shawn Gomez, Associate Chair for Research

Directors

  • Lianne Cartee, Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Matthew Fisher, Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Director

  • Naji Husseini, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

Distinguished Professors

  • Lianne Cartee, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
  • Paul Dayton, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
  • He (Helen) Huang, Jackson Family Distinguished Professor
  • H. Troy Nagle
  • Roger Narayan
  • Koji Sode, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor

Professors

  • Lianne Cartee
  • Paul A. Dayton
  • Caterina M. Gallippi
  • Shawn Gomez
  • Leaf Huang
  • H. Troy Nagle Jr.
  • Weili Lin
  • J. Michael Ramsey
  • George (Rick) Stouffer

Associate Professors

  • Ashley Brown
  • Yevgeny Brudno
  • Jacqueline Cole
  • Michael Daniele
  • Bob Dennis
  • Kenneth Donnelly
  • Oleg Favorov
  • Matthew Fisher
  • Jason Franz
  • Donald Freytes
  • Michael Gamcsik
  • David Hill
  • Devin Hubbard
  • Naji Husseini
  • Derek Kamper
  • David Lalush
  • Jeffrey Macdonald
  • Scott Magness
  • Matthew Penny
  • Gianmarco Pinton
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Mark Tommerdahl
  • Anka Veleva
  • Bruce Wiggin
  • David Zaharoff

Assistant Professors

  • Amy Adkins
  • Pritha Agarwalla
  • Wen Yih Aw
  • Rahima Benhabbour
  • Joseph Burclaff
  • Melissa Caughey
  • Silvia Ceballos
  • Brian Diekman
  • Alon Greenbaum
  • Michael Jay
  • Kennita Johnson
  • Jinwook Kim
  • Wesley Legant
  • Ming Liu
  • Virginie Papadopoulou
  • Ross Petrella
  • William Polacheck
  • Imran Rizvi
  • Francisco Santibanez
  • Sarah Shelton
  • James Tsuruta

Lecturers

  • Sidhartha Jandhyala
  • Nick Jardine