In 1968, less than one year after the federation of Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University was formed. Its establishment combined resources from Western Reserve’s School of Medicine and Case’s undergraduate biomedical engineering elective sequence, which was the first such program to receive a training grant from the National Institutes of Health in 1963.
At the time of the department’s inception, it was one of only six of its kind in the nation, and in 1972, it offered one of the first bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering in the country.
