• Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering tools for solving problems in biology and medicine.
  • It is an engineering discipline that is practiced by professionals trained primarily as engineers, who specialize in medical and biological applications.
  • This area of study combines fundamentals of the biomedical sciences with advanced engineering methods of analysis and design and brings together these two fields in order to contribute to the design of new medical instruments and devices, apply engineering principles for understanding and repairing the human body, and other biological systems.