1. Biomedical Engineering Book Series
Metin Akay, Series Editor
August 23, San Diego, CA
11/18/2018

2. Leading Causes of Death, 2004 and 2030 compared
(Courtesy of WHO Health Statistics 2008)

3. Biomedical Engineering Research and Education in the 21st Century
Metin Akay

4. U.S. “bioengineering” market: $1 trillion+
Annual revenue for medical devices is about $300 billion
High growth segments include orthopedics and cardiovascular
Annual revenue in biopharmaceuticals is about $900 billion
High growth segments include lifestyle drugs & oncology (cancer)
Third Biomedical Engineering Education Summit Meeting
June 16-17, 2008 (Skalak & Akay) 4

5. Fastest Growing S&E Discipline:
Biomedical Engineering
The BME job outlook is projected to experience faster growth, through 2018, than other occupations requiring a bachelor's degree (The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012).
The BME graduate enrollment has been the fastest among the science and engineering fields (up 167% in the last decade (NCSES, NSF, 2012)

6. The Biomedical Engineer of 2020

7. Engineers…
– Exploit science to develop technologies
– Create new technologies that demand new science
Engineering education should lead technology advances
– Will need to deal with shifting demographics…
Increase in group populations traditionally under-represented in engineering
Opportunities for growth are at the interface between disciplines
– Nanotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Materials Science…
Traits that we should aspire to instill in our graduates
– Strong analytical skills, creativity, ingenuity, professionalism, and leadership

8. New Frontiers for Biomedical Engineering

9. Global Healthcare
Design and develop low cost replacements for currently existing expensive medical therapies and technologies in partnership with other disciplines.
Use these simpler, robust and cost effective technologies and therapies in both developing and developed countries to reduce the cost of healthcare.

10. Bio-inspired Engineering
Explores how living systems are organized (self-assembled) and function and then exploit this knowledge and understanding in non-living systems.
Helps bioengineers to develop advanced materials and devices for medicine and environments
inspires engineering and the physical sciences and leads to new approaches in design and manufacturing

11. Regenerative Medicine
Restores structure and function of damaged tissues and organs through:
Therapies that prompt the body to autonomously regenerate damaged tissue
Tissue engineered implants to prompt regeneration
Direct transplantation of healthy tissues into damaged environments

12. Engineering Immunity
Dysfunction of the immune system causes several debilitating and life threating diseases including cancer and diabetes.
Causes a major challenge to healthcare systems and societies.
Engineering approaches to investigate and modulate the immune system for the treatment of chronic diseases involving the immune system immune dysfunction.

13. Infectious Disease
Focuses on the detection, epidemiology, ecology, and transmission of tulermia, avian influenza, plague etc.
Starts at the organismal level and rapidly progress down to the systemic circulation and tissue organ infection, followed by the cellular and subcellular levels, where the infection processes target key metabolic elements leading to cell death and finally whole organism demise.

14. Grand Challenges from NAE
Make solar energy economical
Provide energy from fusion
Develop carbon sequestration methods
Manage the nitrogen cycle
Provide access to clean water
Restore and improve urban infrastructure
Advance health informatics
Engineer better medicines
Reverse-engineer the brain
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Enhance virtual reality
Advance personalized learning
Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

15. Recently Published Books (July 2013)
Micro & Nanotechnologies in Engineering Stem Cell and Tissues (Ramalingam) (July 2013)
Introduction to Neural Engineering for Motor Rehabilitation (Farina, Jensen & Akay)
11/18/2018

16. Books (Under Contract)
Introduction to Tissue Engineering (Birla)
Neuroelectric Brain Imaging (Babiloni)
M-Health (Istepanian)
Data-Based Nonlinear Modeling (Marmarelis)
Handbook of Telemedicine (Nikita)
11/18/2018

17. Grand Challenges and Opportunities for BME Book Series
Advances in Medical Imaging (A Laine)
Systems Biology (S Subramanian)
Healthcare Entrepreneurship (TBD)
Healthcare Economy (TBD)
Bio-Inspiring Engineering (TBD)
Immuno-Engineering ( Mohan & Wu)
11/18/2018

18. Grand Challenges and Opportunities for BME Book Series
Health Informatics (M Wang)
Nanoparticles in Medicine (R Merletti)
Global Healthcare (Xu & Akay)
Biomimetics (T Berger)
Optical Imaging (A Hielscber)
Synthetic Biology (H Hess)
Surface Electromyography (Merletti)
11/18/2018

19. Future: The Bionic Body

20. (Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine, 2010)

21. Engineering Bionic Skin

22. (Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine, 2010)

23. Closing In On a Life-like Limb

24. (Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine, 2010)