• A "no-strings-attached" opportunity to work with talented senior students that you may consider hiring in the future
• A cost effective method for discovering blue sky project or product opportunities for your business
• An opportunity to have a constructive relationship with faculty and students in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
• An opportunity to provide input to the department, such as desirable characteristics you are looking for in graduating students
• The satisfaction of knowing that you are contributing to the community by providing students with industry relevant feedback on projects of real value, thus enhancing a truly unique educational experience

Testimonial:
Contributing to Biomedical Engineering Senior Design has proved to be a valuable return on investment for Applied Technologies. Aside from the long term goal of helping to prepare students to be meaningful contributors to the biomedical industry, our company has experienced many shorter term benefits.

There is a definite benefit to the fresh and youthful thinking the students bring to our fairly mature engineering organization (average length of ATI's senior engineers being 40 years). Providing guest lectures and advising team members on their projects has motivated our staff to refresh and refine our own engineering knowledge and presentation materials.

Working with BME Senior Design students has shown them to be well trained and capable. Our close association with the students has helped us to critique them as potential future ATI employees. In fact, we hired one such student from the BME graduating class of 2008 who has proved to be a strong asset to our company.

Thank you again for the opportunity to participate in the program. I hope that our investment into the students provides them a level of benefit that to some small extent approaches what we have received in return.

Dan Fuccella
President of Applied Technology, Inc.
a Product Design and Engineering Firm that has provided financial support, guest lectures, and team consulting to BME Senior Design

The undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering at NC State University is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and is provided by the faculty and staff of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The department is a part of the College of Engineering at NC State and of the School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.