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Biomedical Engineer:
Design products and procedures that solve medical problems.
These include artificial organs, prostheses, instrumentation, medical information systems, and health management and care delivery systems.
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Treatment:
1. Doctor diagnoses and treat patient diseases.
2. Biomedical Scientist analyses the blood from a patient so that the doctor knows how to diagnose and treat.
3. Biomedical Engineer design the equipment used to analyse the blood.
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Heart Transplant:
1. Biomedical Scientist determines blood flow and heart functions
2. Biomedical Engineer uses this information to design the artificial heart
3. Doctor carries out surgery and monitors patient health
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Replacing Damaged Skin
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how the artificial skin will be tolerated by the body.
2. Biomolecular Engineer designs, operates and maintains the process to grow the synthetic skin (tissue engineering).
3. Doctor operates to graft the artificial skin to the body.
CRICOS: 00116K
Repairing a Damaged Hip
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how the hip joint functions in the body
2. Biomedical Engineer designs the prosthesis (artificial hip)
3. Doctor operates on the patient and monitors the recovery
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Repairing Damaged Bones
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how the bones function in the body.
2. Biomedical Engineer designs the equipment to be used during surgery to ensure correct alignment.
3. Doctor operates on the patient and monitors the recovery.
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Health Care
Food & Agriculture
Environmental
Research
Energy
Regulatory
Finance
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Parkville - the major centre in Australia for medical and bio-scientific research, education, clinical practice and production of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products for clinical trials.
Home to 2,000 researchers, 12 research institutes, 8 hospitals and 8 major industrial companies and the new Bio21 complex.
Bio21.
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Drug Discovery
Bioprospecting & Medicinal Chemistry
Medical Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics
Bioengineering & Biocompatible Materials
Cancer, Ageing, & Inflammatory Disease
Vaccine & Infectious Diseases
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Neurosciences
Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice
Animal Biotechnology
Environmental & Agricultural
Biotechnology
Molecular Platform Technologies
Animal Models
Nanotechnology
Tissue Engineering
Skeletal muscle after 2 weeks
BSc majoring in biomedical or biotechnology
BBiomedSci biomedical science
BE in biomedical and biomolecular
BE/BSc in biochemical engineering
Engineering @ Melbourne
@ Melbourne >
Bio Courses
BE (Biomedical Engineering)
BE (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
BE (Engineering Management)
All 4 year programs.
Engineering @ Melbourne
Engineering @ Melbourne >
New in 2005
biomedicalengineering
imaging
biomechanics
bioinfomatics
system engineering
tissue engineering
prosthetic devices
system modelling
clinical engineering
health engineering
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4 year program
No mid-year entry
Degree name is Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical)
Combined degrees not possible
Most programs in Australia either 5 year combined degrees, or BE with single subject biomedical electives
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What is Biomedical Engineering ?
Biomedical engineering is the application of techniques drawn from engineering to the analysis and solution of problems in biology and medicine.
Biomedical engineering applies the techniques of all classical engineering disciplines to problems encountered in living systems.
BIOMEDICAL Engineering
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Increasing focus on health issues, aging populations around the world – growing expectations of the delivery of better medical devices & equipment designed by Biomedical Engineers.
‘Employment of Biomedical Engineers is expected to grow faster than all occupations in US through to 2012’
(Source: US Department of Labour – Bureau of Labor Statistics – www.bls.gov)
BIOMEDICAL Engineering
CRICOS: 00116K
Four Programs :
biocellular engineering
bioinfomatics
biomechanics
biosignals processing
First two years largely common (strong links with Biomedical Science in early years)
BIOMEDICAL Engineering