- What are the specializations in the Biomedical Engineering area?
- Which specified area of Biomedical Engineering do I like the most?
- How do I prepare for this career?
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http://www.biomedicalengineeringschools.org/specialization- The areas of Biomedical Engineering
http://www.bioen.utah.edu/sbme/plan.html- More Areas and how to prepare for the career.
http://www.biomedicalengineeringschools.org/specialization- The areas of Biomedical Engineering
http://www.bioen.utah.edu/sbme/plan.html- More Areas and how to prepare for the career.
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Areas of Biomedical Engineering:
- Bioinformatics - Computer tools are developed and utilized to collect and assess biology and medicine information like managing gene search databases.
- BioMEMS - MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) integrates mechanical sensors, electronics, sensors, and elements on a silicone chip to develop tools like microrobots.
- Biomaterials - Substances are engineered to be used in devices or implants that interact with living tissue like artificial joint implants.
- Biomechanics - Biology applied mechanics examines motion, fluid flow, and material deformation like in blood circulation examinations to create artifical hearts.
- Biosignal Processing - Useful information is extracted from biological signals for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes like detecting brain signals used to control a computer.
- Biotechnology - A set of tools that incorporates living organisms to create or alter products, develop microorganisms, and improve animals and plants for explicit uses like hazardous contaminant's bioremediation-degradation to assist living organisms
- Cellular, Tissue and Genetic Engineering involve more recent attempts to attack biomedical problems at the microscopic level. These areas utilize the anatomy, biochemistry and mechanics of cellular and sub-cellular structures in order to understand disease processes and to be able to intervene at very specific sites. With these capabilities, miniature devices deliver compounds that can stimulate or inhibit cellular processes at precise target locations to promote healing or inhibit disease formation and progression.
- Clinical Engineering - Patient care is supported and advanced with managerial skills and engineering through health care technologies which can be used in medical product development.
- Genomics - Mapping, analyzing, and sequencing genomes is a new field where new treatment of diseases can occur.
- Imaging and Imaging Processing - Ultrasound, computerized tomography (CT), X-rays, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allow a view inside the body where low cost image systems are developed.
- Information Technology - Diverse applications and technologies are covered in this biomedicine area like using virtual reality in applications of medicine.
- Instrumentation, Sensors, and Measurement - The design of hardware and software that calculate biological signals and includes the building instrumentation systems like heart monitoring systems.
- Micro and Nanotechnology - Microtechnology is creating and using devices on a micrometer scale, and nanotechnology is developing and utilizing devices on a nanometer scale where microscopic tissue properties are changed and identified.
- Neural Systems and Engineering - This new multidisciplinary field studies the brain and nervous system with replacement or restoration sensory and motor abilities occuring.
- Physiological Systems Modeling - Therapeutic innovations and medical diagnostic applications are developed as a comprehensive knowledge of living functions of organisms is understood.
- Proteomics - Studies the set of all proteins that species produces and can explain how infections are spread.
- Radiology - The use of X-rays, MRIs, and ultrasound to create body images of organs and structures where a diagnosis and treatment of a disease can ensure.
- Rehabilitation Engineering - Science and technology is applied for people with disabilities to improve their quality of life.
- Robotics in Surgery - Image-processing systems and robotics assist medical teams in preparing and administering a surgery.
- Telemedicing - Electrical medical information is transferred from one location to another, as in video-teleconferencing systems.
The Areas I am most interested in right now are Genomics, Neural Systems and Engineering, Biotechnology, Cellular, Tissue, and Genetic Engineering, BioMEMS, and Biomechanics.
To prepare for Biomedical Engineering, it is a similar preparation to any other engineering area. This means Math and Physics, but Life Sciences must be emphasized as well. Hopefully, these classes should be AP.
At College level, one should enter the Engineering Area which is taken as a course by itself.
Since it is a new career not much courses are offered at CNG, so I'll have to do my best.
