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About Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine.
Biomedical engineers work at the intersection of engineering, life sciences and healthcare. These engineers take principles from applied science (including mechanical, electrical, chemical and computer engineering) and physical sciences (including physics, chemistry and mathematics) and apply them to biology and medicine. Although the human body is a more complex system than the most sophisticated machine, many of the same concepts that go into building and programming a machine can be applied to biological structures, diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
The goal is to better understand, replace or fix a target system to ultimately improve the quality of healthcare.
Subdisciplines Within Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Instrumentation.
- Biomaterials.
- Biomechanics.
- Bionics.
- Medical Imaging.
- Biometrics.
- Biosignal Processing.
- Rehabilitation engineering.
- Neural Engineering.
Sometimes, disciplines within BME are classified by their association(s) with other, more established engineering fields, which can include:
- Mechanical engineering - associated with biomechanics, biodesign, and modeling of biological systems.
- Electrical engineering - associated with bioinstrumentation, biomedical imaging & medical devices.
- Chemical engineering - often associated with biochemical, cellular, molecular and tissue engineering.
- Optical engineering - biomedical optics, imaging and related medical devices.