The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established in 2005. It enrolled its first undergraduate students in 2006 and its first master students in 2007. In 2016, it established a doctoral program in interdisciplinary clinical medical engineering and became a key discipline cultivation site in Jiangsu Province. In 2019, it was approved as a “Double First-Class Projects” construction site and classified as a key discipline of type B in Jiangsu Province. In 2021, it was approved as a master’s program in Biomedical Engineering. In 2023, it ranked as B+ and among the top 40% in the Best Subjects of Chinese Universities and Colleges. Currently, the Department has a faculty of 19 members, including 12 with senior titles, 3 doctoral supervisors, 7 master supervisors, and 2 specially-appointed provincial professors. There are also 5 teaching-oriented postdoctoral fellows and 2 postdoctoral fellows at the Changzhou Medical Center.
The Department has established several research platforms, translational platforms, and laboratories, including the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Technology and Instruments (2022), Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Wearable Monitoring and Rehabilitation Devices (2019), Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Digital Medicine and 3D Printing Clinical Engineering (2019), Joint International Research Laboratory of Health Informatics and Rehabilitation Engineering (2022), and Interdisciplinary Technology Institute For Medicine And Engineering (2021). These platforms are dedicated to research in areas such as intelligent wearable monitoring devices and systems, intelligent rehabilitation robots, preparation of micro-nano materials and flexible sensors, and biomedical nano materials. In recent years, the Department has undertaken 13 national and provincial projects, including four National Key Research and Development Programs, one National Major Scientific Research Instrument Research Project, and two Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Special Funds Projects, with a total funding of 38.23 million RMB. Over the past five years, the research outcomes in the Department have been published in more than 50 domestic and international journals, and over 20 invention patents have been granted.
The Department aims to cultivate talents with a “health-oriented” approach. It relies on the Jiangsu Provincial Biomedical Engineering Experimental Teaching Center (2016), and is guided by teaching themes, such as the National New Engineering Research and Practice Project (2020). It has formed a “3+3+3” innovation and entrepreneurship training system to culture talents with medical, scientific, and engineering characteristics. Faculty members have charged or participated in the compilation of 15 medicine-engineering integrative textbooks and created 6 first-class courses. They also guide students in competitions such as the “Challenge Cup”, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, and China International College Students’ Innovation Competition. In the past three years, they have won 27 awards in the innovation and entrepreneurship competition at or above the provincial level and 11 provincial undergraduate innovation projects. Graduates are employed in top hospitals, medical enterprises, and universities such as Jiangsu Province Hospital, Gulou Hospital, Mindray Medical, Siemens Medical, Southeast University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Nanjing University.
Director
Name: Songsheng Zhu, Associate Professor
Research fields: Medical Instruments and Devices, Medical Signal Processing, Intelligent Rehabilitation, Wearable Monitoring Devices.
E-mail: zhu@njmu.edu.cn