Biomedical Engineers
Biomedical engineers are involved in developing devices and procedures which solve medical and health-related problems by combining their knowledge of biology and medicine with engineering principles and practices.
Biomedical engineering (BME) is the ingenious and elegant application of the engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It combines the design and problem solving expertise of engineering with the medical expertise of physicians to improve patient health care and the health of life. Biomedical engineers design devices employed in various medical procedures, such as the computers used to analyze blood or the laser systems applied in corrective eye surgery.
They develop artificial organs, imaging systems like magnetic resonance, ultrasound, and x-ray, and devices for automating insulin injections or controlling body functions. The aging of the population and the focus on the health issues will increase the demand for better medical devices and equipments designed by the biomedical engineers. For example, computer-assisted surgery and molecular, cellular, and tissue engineering are being more comprehensively and exclusively researched and are developing fast.