I’ve been reading about a number of majors as well as come upon biomedical engineering and bioengineering intermittently. What is the difference among Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Biomedical Sciences?
- Stephen123 asked 7 years ago
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At most of the schools, bioengineering is the wide term which portrays the whole field of biotechnology, genetic engineering, and biomedical engineering. Therefore, Biomedical Engineering is a segment of bioengineering. Biomedical engineers generally work in hospitals and maintain the equipment. They also work in industries to create or deal with the medical equipment, or they do research in academia on devices and materials. Biotechnologists work in academia and biotech firm. In the two ranges, the concentration would generally be medical research and development.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering is known as the designing concepts to biology and medicine and application of engineering values. It develops innovative biology, materials, procedures, implants, mechanisms, informatics approaches for diagnosis, treatment for diseases, and patient rehabilitation. It’s an interdisciplinary subject and influenced by a lot of medical and engineering fields including biomaterials, biomedical electronics, bio-instrumentation, tissue, cellular, clinical engineering, and genetic engineering. Several major biomedical engineering programs involve the improvement of biocompatible prostheses, therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices which range from ordinary imaging tools to clinical tools like MRIs and EEGs. The biotechnology associated applications of such field involve resurgent tissue growth as well as the creation of biopharmaceuticals.
Bioengineering
Bioengineering refers to biological engineering, biological systems engineering, and biotechnological engineering. This discipline includes methods and principles of mathematics, computer sciences, physics, and chemistry so as to design and analyze tools to bridge innovative methods in life sciences. Because of several experts in the area, bioengineering offers a broad specialty which involves medical engineering, biochemical engineering, and biomedical engineering. Bioengineers pay attention to creating new products like preservatives, pharmaceutical products, biomass-based energy, food supplements, and bionanotechnology, by using basic concepts and processes in the biological science. Basic engineering principles like kinetics, separation and purification methods, thermodynamics, polymeric science, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and surface phenomena are used in design and innovation of new products. Experts subdivide bioengineering into different specialties, such as food and biological process engineering, agricultural engineering, natural resource engineering, etc.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology refers to the technological application which makes use of biological systems and living organisms to create or modify processes or products for particular use. The modern biotechnology utilizes innovative techniques those offer much more understanding as well as control over all living processes. Nowadays, this has a variety of applications, mainly in the fields of health care, environmental processes, agriculture, and industrial processes. There are a number of common applications of biotechnology, and some of them are enhanced gene therapy, enzymes, crops, and genetic screening which work as industrialized catalysts. We also use biotechnology in the fields of pollution control, forestry energy production, mining, aquaculture, and waste management. There are some risks in biotechnology as well. Colossal debates have emerged over the creation of genetically modified living beings because of the change of their regular compositions which can harm the balance of nature, ultimately leading to the dangerous results.
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- Chitra answered 7 years ago
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Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
Bioengineering a very broad field of study with many sub-fields such as biomedical engineering. They are both interdisciplinary fields wherein the use of engineering and medical knowledge are applied to improving medical and surgical care through tools and equipment. These fields of study involves bio-instrumentation, biomaterials, imaging, and biomedical devices.
Biotechnology
While bioengineering and biomedical engineering are mainly focused on the healthcare setting, biotechnology encompasses all biological organisms and their products into the mix. Biotechnology engineers uses biological organisms and their products to manufacture useful materials such as reducing green house gas emissions, creating sustainable crops, etc.
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