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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
• Doctor diagnoses and treat patient diseases.
• Biomedical Scientist analyses the blood from a
  patient so that the doctor knows how to diagnose
  and treat.
• Biomedical Engineer design the equipment used to
  analyse the blood.

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• Heart Transplant
• Biomedical Scientist determines blood flow and
  heart functions
• Biomedical Engineer uses this information to
  design the artificial heart
• Doctor carries out surgery and monitors patient
  health

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• Replacing Damaged Skin
• Biomedical Scientist establishes how the
  artificial skin will be tolerated by the body.
• Biomolecular Engineer designs, operates and
  maintains the process to grow the synthetic skin
  (tissue engineering).
• Doctor operates to graft the artificial skin to
  the body.

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• Repairing a Damaged Hip
• Biomedical Scientist establishes how the hip
  joint functions in the body
• Biomedical Engineer designs the prosthesis
  (artificial hip)
• Doctor operates on the patient and monitors the
  recovery

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• Repairing Damaged Bones
• Biomedical Scientist establishes how the bones
  function in the body.
• 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
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Tissue Engineering
Skeletal muscle after 2 weeks
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Bio Courses
Engineering _at_ Melbourne
_at_ Melbourne gt

• BSc majoring in biomedical or biotechnology
• BBiomedSci biomedical science
• BE in biomedical and biomolecular
• BE/BSc in biochemical engineering

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New in 2005
Engineering _at_ Melbourne
Engineering _at_ Melbourne gt

• BE (Biomedical Engineering)
• BE (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
• BE (Engineering Management)
• All 4 year programs.

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biomedical engineering
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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BIOMEDICAL Engineering
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.
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BIOMEDICAL Engineering
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)
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BIOMEDICAL Engineering

• Four Programs
• biocellular engineering
• bioinfomatics
• biomechanics
• biosignals processing
• First two years largely common (strong links with
  Biomedical Science in early years)

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