The mission of the department is to enhance biomedical engineering education at Wayne State University in order to enable our graduates to attack the societal epidemics of premature death, pain, and disability that result from trauma and aging.

  New Graduate Certificate in Impact Biomechanics

This program is designed for students with an engineering or a mathematics-based science background. The training consists of discourses in the fundamentals of impact injury both for the automotive as well as for the military environment. Topics include mechanisms of injury to various parts of the body from head to toe, human response to impact loading, human tolerance to impact and the use of human surrogates in testing for vehicular safety. Computer models are also taught because they can serve as a human surrogate.