CRICOS: 00116K

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.

CRICOS: 00116K

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.

CRICOS: 00116K

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

CRICOS: 00116K

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

CRICOS: 00116K

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.

CRICOS: 00116K

Health Care

Food & Agriculture

Environmental

Research

Energy

Regulatory

Finance

CRICOS: 00116K

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.

CRICOS: 00116K

Drug Discovery

Bioprospecting & Medicinal Chemistry

Medical Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics

Bioengineering & Biocompatible Materials

Cancer, Ageing, & Inflammatory Disease

Vaccine & Infectious Diseases

CRICOS: 00116K

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

CRICOS: 00116K

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

CRICOS: 00116K

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

CRICOS: 00116K

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