Similarities and Differences in Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Curricula in the United States

Robert Linsenmeier is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and of Neurobiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, with an additional appointment in Ophthalmology. His research interests are in the role of retinal oxygen transport and metabolism in both normal conditions and diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment, and in bioengineering and physiology education. His teaching is largely in the area of human and animal physiology. He is the Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Formerly, he was the Associate Director of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, and chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.