About Biomedical Engineering

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What is Biomedical Engineering?

Biomedical engineering is the fastest growing, most exciting, and most challenging area in engineering today.

It is the fastest growing because there has been an explosive growth in our understanding of how biological systems work. This understanding is being driven along by new technologies like high throughput DNA and protein sequencing, new imaging systems and wireless communications, which are all underpinned by cheap high-speed digital computing.

This intersection between new technologies and new understanding of how biological systems work makes for a heady mix that is both exciting and challenging. Exciting because it offers unsurpassed opportunities to do new creative things. Challenging because to take an idea and turn it into a reality is not always easy, usually requiring a detailed knowledge of both biology and engineering.

Biomedical Engineering at Melbourne

Our central aim here at Melbourne School of Engineering is to make you fluent in both the languages of biology and engineering, so as to place you at the epicentre of this 21st century revolution in medicine and the treatment of disease.

Subjects you may study include

• Anatomy & Physiology for Engineers
• Auditory Processing & Hearing Bionics
• Biological Systems Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Bionanoengineering
• Clinical Engineering
• Computational Sequence Analysis
• Computational Genomics
• Forces, Fields & Flows in Bio Systems
• Neural Info-Processing & Learning
• Tissue Engineering