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What is Biomedical Engineering? |
Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field combining the analytical and experimental methods of the
engineering profession with the biological and medical sciences and applied to solving problems in biology or medicine. It applies physical, chemical, mathematical, and computational sciences and engineering
principles to study biology, medicine, behavior, and health. It advances fundamental concepts; creates knowledge from the molecular to the organ systems level; and develops innovative biologics, materials,
processes, implants, devices and informatics approaches for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, for patient rehabilitation, and for improving health. Some of these
engineers work closely with biologists and medical doctors to develop medical instruments, artificial organs, and prosthetic devices. Others investigate questions that involve technology and humans such as:
How does working with computers all day affect one's health and behavior? |
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What do Bioengineers do? |
Students after graduating with bio-medical engineering degrees may work as biomedical engineers with
medical practitioners for the development of new medical techniques, medical devices, and instrumentation for manufacturing companies. Clinical engineers work in hospitals and clinics to maintain and improve
the vast amount of technological support required in modern medicine. With advanced degrees in the various fields of biomedical engineering, some graduates perform basic research related to biology and
medicine in the research laboratories of educational and governmental institutions or in medical industries. Some biomedical
engineers aim to understand each machine's function so that they can model it and predict responses to untested situations. Other biomedical engineers aim to correct deficiencies in function. Still other
biomedical engineers aim to copy nature's designs to create better man-made machines. Nature is the gifted experimentalist and teacher that all biomedical engineers learn from. Biomedical engineers measure
biological phenomena as physicians do in a hospital in order to diagnose a patient. In many respects the goals of biomedical engineers and those of biologists or physicians overlap. What distinguishes the
biomedical engineer, however, is a desire to reach a quantitative understanding of the properties of biological systems. This quantitative understanding can provide a means to measure, for example, which
medical diagnostic test is the more accurate, or the less harmful. Top |
Biomedical Engineering at JIS Group of Colleges |
B.Tech programme in Bio-medical Engineering is offered at JIS college of Engineering, Kalyani. The curriculum followed is as designed by the
West Bengal University of Technology. Top |
Career Opportunities |
Students completing the undergraduate curriculum in biomedical engineering will be prepared for
professional careers in businesses related to medical diagnostics, prosthetic devices, and implants, the pharmaceutical industry, and consulting in health-related fields. Bioengineering positions are found
in industry, commerce, education, and government. Some students may choose to continue their formal education at a graduate school of their choice. Top |
Why Bioengineering? |
BME is booming. Outgrowths of the human genome project will lead to newer and better diagnostics therapies,
including gene therapy; specific engineering studies of nervous and cardiopulmonary systems are revolutionizing neural and tissue engineering; and medical imaging at minute and organ-level scales is
providing virtually harmless diagnostic tools. And as these technologies develop, they change our world. Almost all observers expect an explosion of bioengineering activity, devices, understanding, and
breakthroughs to dominate society during the working careers of students entering college today. Advances in Bio-medical
Engineering will change medicine, law, science, and industry. The industrial revolution changed forever the way the world worked; the recent networked information biotechnological revolution has changed the
way the world communicates, and this revolution promises to change the way the world lives. Unpredictable, fortuitous results in the field of biomedical engineering in the past few years, have already become
part of our everyday lives--and these results, in pharmacology, imaging, and gene therapy, are an optimistic prediction of the future-- a life wholly free of devastating diseases may be achievable before the
end of the next century, and biomedical engineers will guide us into this next incredible era. Top
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