By: Noemi
Melo
Biomedical engineering is different
from all other engineering fields. This is because of the way it deals with the
understanding of the human body. For example, biomedical engineers need to know
about molecules, cells, tissues, organs, the circulatory system, nerves,
muscles, bones, and anything that will help them understand how the body works.
As a biomedical engineer, you must add life sciences and the medical knowledge
that is necessary to understand the frame work of the problems which you will
face. With biomedical engineering, you are studying biology and engineering at
the same time. Engineers design equipment and devices, such as artificial
internal organs and the replacements of body parts. These engineers need to
know how to install, adjust, maintain, repair, and provide technical support
for the devices they make. They have to develop life support systems, as well
as create devices to aid the impaired or disabled and they create systems to
allow better diagnosis of medical disorders. Another difference that biomedical
engineering has with the other engineering fields is that in this field these
engineers mainly work in health care.
Many of the other engineering fields
don’t have to deal with the understanding of the human body and how it works. Aside
from this difference other engineers don’t have to worry about reconstructing a
heart or body part. Computer engineers focus on computers and anything related
to technology. A mechanical engineer focuses on the development of processes
and products. They have to build a product and test it out to see if it was
properly developed. Although biomedical engineers develop products as well they
manly focus on developing products for the body and not like car parts and so
on. A packaging engineer focuses on the manufacturing process of a product and
the placement of the product. The other engineering fields don’t focus on
building prosthetics and organs.
As a biomedical engineer you get to
help paralyzed people walk again. For people who have been in accidents and
have lost a body part, biomedical engineers design and produce prosthetics to
help them walk again. Another cool thing that biomedical engineers do is
reconstruct body organs, like a heart, to help people that need heart
transplants get off the waiting list. Other than that, biomedical engineers
study how they can cure cancer. A cancer that biomedical engineers have worked
to cure is ovarian cancer. They have been able to build a 3D model of ovarian
cancer in order to find out how to cure this type of cancer. In the future
biomedical engineers will be able to cut back on melanoma biopsies and the goal
of this new device will be to reduce the number of patients left with
unnecessary biopsy scars and along with this they are looking forward to
eliminating the cost of unnecessary procedures. Another technology is the
electronic aspirin for people who suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, and
so on. This device involves the permanent implant of small nerves stimulating
this device in the upper gum on the side of the head normally affected by a
headache. Biomedical engineers are also developing a needle-free diabetes care.
This device will replace the poke with a patch.
With the information provided above everybody now knows how cool
the field of biomedical engineering is rather than the other engineering
fields.
Sources
Indiana University. "Indiana
University–Purdue University Indianapolis." Is Biomedical Engineering
Right for Me? N.p., 2014. Web.
24 Sept. 2016.
"An Exploration of Biomedical
Engineering." Youtube. N.p., 1 Dec. 2015. Web.
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