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 head Bottom 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 ◦ ical-Engineering ical-Engineering  Engineering Profiles ◦ Jennifer ◦ Kim