1. Adaptive and Assistive Bioengineering

2. What is Engineering?
Engineering is the process of creating technology.
Name some examples of technology that engineers, scientists, and inventors have created.

3. What is Bioengineering?
Bioengineering is the application of engineering (technology) to living things, such as humans and plants.
Bioengineers look at problems that occur in living things and invent technology that will help with these problems.

4. Assistive Bioengineering
Technology that is developed to help organisms, but DOES NOT change them.
ASSIST = HELP
Examples:
Eyeglasses
Wheelchairs
Antibiotics

5. Adaptive Bioengineering
Technology developed to help living organisms and DOES change them.
ADAPT = CHANGE
Examples:
Lasik Eye Surgery
Knee replacement
New strains of crop
in agriculture

6. Adaptive or Assistive????
On your Worsheet you will see 2 columns labeled Adaptive and Assistive
Write the name of the item you see underneath the type of bioengineering you think it is.
Remember: Assist = Help
Adapt = Change

7. EXAMPLE A

8. EXAMPLE B

9. #1. Hearing Aid

10. #2. Hip Replacement

11. # Crutches

12. #4. Genetically altered corn that resists pests

13. #5. Knee Brace

14. # Arm Cast

15. #7 Heart Valve Replacement or Angioplasty

16. #8 Crop Pesticide (kills bugs on plants)

17. #9. Contact Lenses

18. # Artificial Limbs
Leg removed and without a cover.

19. #11. Cochlear Implants (they are attached to the head)

20. #12. Glasses

21. #13. & #14. Assignment:
Choose one adaptive bioengineering technology and one assistive bioengineering technology to draw.
Draw and color each in the correct section.
Label the item and write one sentence on how each piece of technology can help organisms in their daily lives. And how it works.