What is Biomedical Engineering?

The essential premise behind biomedical engineering is that the application of engineering to medicine will benefit health care. Not only is engineering used to solve problems in biology, but our increasing understanding of living systems at the cellular and molecular levels suggests that the lessons learned from billions of years of evolution can lead to the design of artificial systems, and can harness the understanding to perform reparative medicine via natural adaptive mechanisms.

The biomedical engineering field has swiftly become necessary both to health care delivery and basic life science research. The ultimate success of this emerging field will be the quality and training of the individuals it attracts. Both industry and academia recognize that students with a solid footing in both biology and engineering can contribute in ways that students with traditional engineering training cannot.

Adapted from the "The End will be just the beginning" by Dr. Peter Katona