Biomedical Engineering
What do biomedical engineers do? Apply engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology Seek to improve healthcare diagnosis, monitoring and therapy
Examples...
Medical Imaging Equipment Devices used to look inside people's bodies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.
Prosthetic Body Parts Mechanical devices that function as the body part that the user is missing.
Tissue/Implant Engineering Creating new, artificial body parts that can replace body parts that do not work.
Genetic Engineering Modifying a person's or animal's genes in order to fix a problem or attempt to cure a disease.
Medical Device Design Designing devices that help people's bodies function better.
Medical Device Design Designing devices that aid the recovery of people.