The bar of success is set high for the School of Engineering at Rutgers. Simply put, our goal is to become one of the top ten engineering schools in the country. Achieving this goal of growth and excellence requires innovative strategic planning and the investment of new resources. Leading the charge is the Department of Biomedical Engineering which, over the past five years, has: i) established a new vibrant undergraduate program which is currently the third-most popular engineering major; ii) more than doubled its core faculty; and iii) more than quadrupled its external research funding. Internally, we are dedicating a significant amount of resources to this effort, and have already assembled a number of key ingredients for success. These include visionary leadership, new state-of-the-art facilities, and exciting and unique programs in tissue engineering, nanotechnology, functional genomics, and biomedical imaging. Finally, industry in New Jersey, which is #1 in pharmaceutical development and #3 in medical device development, is more than ever looking to us for outstanding recruits and new discoveries. With quality as the foundation to our growth, we are poised to meet this demand head-on by sculpting a unique and outstanding biomedical engineering enterprise with rigor and relevance as its guiding principles.

Michael T. Klein,
Dean, School of Engineering,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey