Biomedical Engineering Education

Biomedical engineering is an engineering discipline that:

 advances knowledge in engineering, biology and medicine, and in basic sciences,
 improves human health by design and problem solving skills of engineering
 science applied to diagnosis, monitoring, therapy and rehabilitation, but also to
prevention and prediction
 integrates engineering sciences with biomedical sciences and clinical practice
 Challanges of Biomedical Engineering

 ICT in medicine and health care

 Minimally invazive surgery
 Biomedical sensors
 Medical imaging and visualisation of the data
 Intelligent materials
 Cellular and stem cell engineering
 Nanotechnology
 Modeling and simulition of physiologic systems and human body
as a whole
 ……
 Why to study Biomedical Engineering?

 Established field of science and engineering – still a lot of

challenges – need for innovation
 Use engineering and science to help living beings
 Apply experience and knowledge of living systems to designing
inovative machines
 Rapidly expanding field
 Industrial and research opportunities available, employment also
in hospitals and in government regulatory agencies
 BME for improving the effectiveness and delivery of clinical
medicine
 Students enthusiastic because BME is directed to improve health
and wellbeing of people
 Biomedical Engineering Education

Core topics
 Biomaterials
 Biomechanics
 Biomedical data and signal processing
 Biomedical instrumentation and sensors
 Health technology design, assessment and management
 Information and communication technologies in medicine
and healthcare
 Medical imaging and image processing