Senior MESA Day

Application of engineering technology to fields of medicine and biology.

Combines design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences

Improve the quality of life by developing and advancing medical care and technology

Emerging field Interdisciplinary – engineers, physicians,

nurses, therapists, biologists

Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals◦ Use “biological systems, living organisms, or

derivatives thereof.”◦ Tissue Engineering

Ability to take cells out of a person and keep them alive in culture for an extended period of time in order to create artificial organs

◦ Genetic Engineering Direct manipulation of an organism’s genes

◦ Pharmaceutical Engineering Development of pharmaceutical products such as

drugs

Medical Devices◦ Used in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or

in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease

◦ Medical imaging enables clinicians to directly or indirectly view things not visible in plain sight

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Projection radiography such as x-rays

and CT scans Ultrasound

◦ Bioinstrumentation uses electronics (computers) and measurement principles

Nervous System: EMG – muscle / EEG – brain

Cardiovascular: ECG – heart/blood pressure

Top picture: MRI of human headBottom picture: a pump for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion

◦ Artificial Organs and Implants are used to replace and act as a missing biological structure Pacemaker Artificial heart Corrective lenses Ocular prosthetics Cochlear implants Dental implants

Biomechanics◦ Uses mechanics applied to biological or medical

problems Joint or limb replacements Design ergonomic devices Study disease mechanisms

Internal part of a cochlear implant

Clinical Engineering◦ Deals with actual

implementation of medical equipment and technologies in hospitals and other clinical settings

◦ Health care systems management

◦ Overall hospital planning and development

◦ Safety and risk management

Introduction to Biomedical Engineering◦ http://www.allthingsscience.com/video/54/

Biomedical-Engineering

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