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INTRO TO ENGINEERING

Engineering Discipline Description : Biomedical Engineering

Description:
Biomedical engineering is a combination of engineering, medicine, and biology. Biomedical engineers may develop new medical procedures, they might do this by creating artificial devices that can help people learn more about how biology works, so they can improve medical devices. An example of the artificial devices that biomedical engineers create are replications of human body parts that can be used to study, and further the understanding of how the human body works. Biomedical engineers help to improve the safety, and accuracy of biomedical equipment. They create new techniques based on newfound engineering knowledge, they combine engineering and biology principles to create and improve medical devices.
These engineers work with medical staff, and sometimes patients, to help further knowledge as well.

Examples:

  • Design artificial organs and body parts, which can help with transplants

  • Provide technical support for biomedical equipment

  • Train scientists on how to properly work equipment

  • Enforce safety towards biomedical equipment

  • Examples of some external things biomedical engineers have accomplished are the development of hearing aids, pacemakers, prosthetics, and dental products. Other, more clinical engineers, work to ensure that medical equipment is safe and reliable to use in clinical settings

Ava Tran

Baxter Academy for Technology and Science

185 Lancaster Street

Portland Maine

04101

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