Introduction of BioMedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering combines Engineering expertise with medical needs for the enhancement of health care. It is a branch of Engineering in which knowledge and skills are developed and applied to design and solve problems In biology and medicine. Students choose Biomedical Engineering to serve people, along with the excitement of working with living system, and to apply advanced technology to the complex problems of medical care. The Biomedical Engineer is a health care professional, a group that includes Physicians, Nurse and Technicians. Biomedical Engineer may be called upon to design instruments and devices, bring together knowledge from many sources to develop new procedures or carry out research to acquire knowledge needed to solve new problems.
As the Medical Technology is experiencing unprecedented growth and new methods and technologies are evolving to support health care professional to grow and move ahead in their fields. The advancement in medical science and extensive use of electronic system has led the pursuit to widen the scope of learning new disciplines in order to keep pace with ever developing field of medical sciences. The modern hospital is now the centre of a technologically sophisticated healthcare system, and this requires technologically articulate staff. Engineering professionals have become intimately involved in many aspects of medicine, and the discipline of “Biomedical Engineering” has become firmly established due to integration between two discipline, Medicine and Electronic Engineering.
In practice, it involves everything from equipment for diagnosis and patient monitoring through implants such as pacemakers, artificial joints and limbs to the computer simulation of biological functions. All these modern aids to healthcare have to be conceived, designed tested, manufactured, installed, operated, maintained and improved.
Biomedical engineering uses engineering principles to understand, modify and to control biological system. It is an interdisciplinary and applied branch on electronic engineering, which also requires a working knowledge such as physiology, anatomy and biological sciences.
As the Medical Technology is experiencing unprecedented growth and new methods and technologies are evolving to support health care professional to grow and move ahead in their fields. The advancement in medical science and extensive use of electronic system has led the pursuit to widen the scope of learning new disciplines in order to keep pace with ever developing field of medical sciences. The modern hospital is now the centre of a technologically sophisticated healthcare system, and this requires technologically articulate staff. Engineering professionals have become intimately involved in many aspects of medicine, and the discipline of “Biomedical Engineering” has become firmly established due to integration between two discipline, Medicine and Electronic Engineering.
In practice, it involves everything from equipment for diagnosis and patient monitoring through implants such as pacemakers, artificial joints and limbs to the computer simulation of biological functions. All these modern aids to healthcare have to be conceived, designed tested, manufactured, installed, operated, maintained and improved.
Biomedical engineering uses engineering principles to understand, modify and to control biological system. It is an interdisciplinary and applied branch on electronic engineering, which also requires a working knowledge such as physiology, anatomy and biological sciences.