1. Biomedical Engineering

2. What do biomedical engineers do?
Apply engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology
Seek to improve healthcare diagnosis, monitoring and therapy

3. Examples...

4. Medical Imaging Equipment
Devices used to look inside people's bodies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.

5. Prosthetic Body Parts
Mechanical devices that function as the body part that the user is missing.

6. Tissue/Implant Engineering
Creating new, artificial body parts that can replace body parts that do not work.

7. Genetic Engineering
Modifying a person's or animal's genes in order to fix a problem or attempt to cure a disease.

8. Medical Device Design
Designing devices that help people's bodies function better.

9. Medical Device Design
Designing devices that aid the recovery of people.