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Teaching facilities for Bioengineering students are located in Benedum Hall and include an array of well-equipped laboratories and a dedicated multi-media classrom.

Bioengineering Methods and Applications Laboratory

The facility enables students to participate in an undergraduate laboratory course that integrates the knowledge and skills from three core Bioengineering courses including: Biotransport Phenomena; Mechanical Principles of Biologic Systems; and Biothermodynamics.

A student in BIOE 1150, Bioengineering Methods Labratory, is computing the energy expenditure rates and oxygen consumption rates during exercise of a fellow student.

A biotransport experiment - Students will investigate mass transport in intraluminal and cross-flow membrane oxygenators.

A biomechanics experiment - Uniaxial strength testing using a 4-point bending test of bone.

Bioengineering Design Laboratory

The Bioengineering Design Laboratoryconsists of 10 custom-designed computer workstation tables that facilitate the interaction of small teams of students working on design and analysis applications. Each station is outfitted with a high-resolution flat-panel monitor and is loaded with a variety of design and analysis software including SolidWorks, ProENGINEER, IDEAS, ADAMS, Materialise, ANSYS, AutoCAD, TecPLOT, Visual Studio, and AXUM. These systems are closely linked to the rapid prototyping facilities in the Swanson Center (see below), allowing students to produce prototypes for their senior design projects and other research efforts.

Swanson Center for Product Innovation (SCPI)

The John A. Swanson Center for Product Innovation is a joint initiative of the Departments of Bioengineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. It is a state-of-the-art network comprised of four laboratories that serve as a focal point for product development education within the School, and University, while working as a one-step shop for manufacturing and bioengineering companies. The Center ties together four otherwise distinct laboratories that parallel the new products development lifecycle of design, prototyping and manufacturing. It includes the Design and Multi-media Laboratory, the W.M. Keck Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Laboratory, the Kresge Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory, and the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory. These laboratories contain design workstations, reverse engineering equipment, rapid prototyping equipment (that allow the manufacturing of polymer based prototypes) rapid manufacturing equipment (that will produce fully functional prototypes and soft tooling) and micro- and nano-scale design technology.

For more information visit the Center web site at: http://www.engr.pitt.edu/~SCPI

Bioengineering Instrumentation Laboratory

The Instrumentation Laboratory is a laboratory for instruction in electronics design and instrumentation. The Laboratory contains high-speed networked PCs running at every station with a resident server running National Instruments' LabVIEW control and data collection, as well as large screen projection and centralized facilities for soldering and prototype construction. Each station also contains an oscilloscope, power supply, waveform generator, and instrumentation amplifiers.

Bioengineering Multimedia Classroom

The Bioengineering Multimedia Classroom provides students and faculty with a state-of-the-art presentation area that enables the delivery of quality technical presentations using a variety of technologies and media. The classroom seats 50 and is used for core Bioengineering lectures, and to host presentations by students, faculty and visiting speakers at seminars.