Biomedical Manufacturing
This multidisciplinary field, focusing on 3-D modeling, bioinformatics, surgical machining, pharmaceutical production, image processing, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics, requires engineers to collaborate extensively with physicians, therapists and many other professionals in the medical and biotechnology sectors.
Medical imaging, computer aided design (CAD) and rapid prototyping (RP) technologies are used to develop and fabricate custom medical implants, prosthetic devices and medical instruments. RP technologies are also used to produce biomedical models to help surgeons with complicated interventions, and to design and produce custom biopolymer scaffolds to be used for tissue engineering of bones and organs.
This thrust area prepares graduates to succeed in a field poised for explosive growth.