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Biomedical Engineering. OVERVIEW. We will be explaining: What Biomedical Engineers do Their salaries Potential job positions Current inventions and future trends Cost of losing a semester Classes offered in FIU Main Employers Ethical Cases. What is Biomedical Engineering?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Biomedical Engineering
OVERVIEW We will be explaining:
What Biomedical Engineers do Their salaries Potential job positions Current inventions and future trends Cost of losing a semester Classes offered in FIU Main Employers Ethical Cases
What is Biomedical Engineering?
The branch of engineers that think up and create medical devices. Stethoscopes Echograms CT Scans Dialysis machines Even syringes
History
• Was first recognized as an official discipline in the 1940’s
• But was actually first seen in:• Stethoscope• Prosthetic Body Parts
Sub-disciplines Instruments and Device Engineers
Design and create a model of what they want to create, and how it is supposed to work.Some current examples attributed by this
branch: Jarvik-7 artificial Pace maker Prosthetic eyes Prosthetic breasts Prosthetic testes, limbs, and joints.
Jarvik-7 Artificial HeartProsthetic Breast
Prosthetic Eye
Prosthetic Limbs
Hip Joint Replacement
MRI of Brain
Pump for Insulin Infusion
Sub-disciplines Bio Material Engineers
They obtain the ideas of the Instruments and Device Engineer and make the product biocompatible by choosing materials that areNon-toxicDurableNon-carcinogenic
These are crucial factors considering they will be implanted into a patient
Sub-disciplines Image Processing
They create non-invasive exploratory machinery, this allows for lower risk investigation of internal problems in a patient
Some machines areEchograms
Used to view the heart to identify murmurs, or arrhythmia
Also used to monitor fetuses throughout development
CT Scans Identify tumors, kidney stones, ovarian cysts.
Description of Courses at FIU
* = required strengths (classes that require math, science, or engineering)
Possible Functions Designer
Basically come up with ideas and sketches for biomedical devicesRelates to Instrument and Device
Engineer
Analyzer Analyzes designers idea, and attempts
to make it functional as well as biocompatibleRelates to Materials Engineer
Possible Functions Presenter (To Clients)
Present the new product to doctors hospitals and clinics, proving its simplicity and usefulness in order to have a client to promote this product to patients.
Presenter (To Patients) This includes doctors, just having
information on as well as using the new product so that more people learn of its simplicity and effectiveness.
Sue H. AbreuCareer Life: Nuclear Medicine U.S. Army Medical Corps President of ICANL
Life Outside Work: Skydiving U.S. Parachute Team
Volunteer: Team Doctor
Ethical Cases “Infants Under Pressure”
MedTech fires professional engineer, Sam Wilson, who discovers error in infant respirators
Stem Cell Human embryos used for research cause
controversy In vitro Fertilization
“test-tube babies”
Future Trends
Healthcare dominating
Innovations: Browsing brain, world-wide
diagnosing More efficient prosthesis Cure cancer
Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering 1995-2004
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500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Time (Yrs.)
Num
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f Deg
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Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Percent of Total
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0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Time (Yrs.)
Perc
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ge (%
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% Average change since 2003: 15.8%
Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years
2008 January February March April May June
Your Salary 0 0 0 0 4280 4280
Comparison 4280 4280 4280 4280 4280 4280
Difference 4280 4280 4280 4280 0 0
2009 January February March April May June
Your Salary 4280 4280 4280 4280 4494 4494
Comparison 4494 4494 4494 4494 4494 4494
Difference 214 214 214 214 0 0
2010 January February March April
Your Salary 4494 4494 4494 4494
Comparison 4718.7 4718.7 4718.7 4718.7
Difference 224.7 224.7 224.7 224.7
Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years
For all years after the first: Let x = years passed, s = Starting
Salary S = Your Salary = s(1.05x) Comparing Salary (C)= S(1.05) Loss Per Month = C – S
S(1.05) – SS(1.05 – 1)(s(1.05x))(.05)
Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years
A to P
Years Loss Per Month A to P Loss Per Year n Total
$4,280.00 $16,978.28 0 $16,978.28
0 $214.00 $848.91 1 $816.26
1 $224.70 $891.36 2 $824.11
2 $235.94 $935.93 3 $832.04
3 $247.73 $982.72 4 $840.04
… … … … …
… … … … …
… … … … …
… … … Grand Total $44,130.34
Main Employers In Florida
Cordis Corp., Miami Lakes, FL Biomedical devices manufacturer
Andrx Corp., Davie, FL Specialty Pharmaceuticals Developer
Beckman Coulter Inc., Miami, FL Medical Instrument Systems Manufacturer
Boston Scientific, Miami, FL Medical Devices Manufacturer
Ivax Corp. , Miami, FL Pharmaceutical Developer, Manufacturer
Main Employers Nationally
1. ABC Coding SolutionsAlbuquerque, NM 2. Lumidigm IncAlbuquerque, NM 3. MIOX CorporationAlbuquerque, NM 4. Star CryoelectronicsSanta Fe, NM
Job Stability, Internships, and Voluntary Works
Growing healthcare and medical devices industry needs growing number of industry professionals
Internship available at hospitals, clinics, and universities NIH – National Institute of Health NASA – National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Voluntary work can be completed at Mercy
Hospital - Miami, FL
Job Postings
Top Ranked Medical Device Company in Bergen County, NJ $55,000 - $70,000 Quality Engineer QA Compliance Auditor Reliability Engineer (Product
Surveillance)
The Vision of the BMES is to serve as the lead society and professional home for biomedical engineering and bioengineering by: Enhancing interactions with industry and
clinical medicine Publishing the high quality journal Promoting the education of the next generation
of biomedical engineers Maximizing the performance of the discipline
Review In our presentation, we discussed:
What Biomedical Engineers do Their salaries Potential job positions Current inventions and future trends Cost of losing a semester Classes offered in FIU Main Employers Ethical Cases
Questions & Answers