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Biomedical Engineers

Apply knowledge of engineering, biology, and biomechanical principles to the design, development, and evaluation of biological and health systems and products, such as artificial organs, prostheses, instrumentation, medical information systems, and health management and care delivery systems.

Other names for Biomedical Engineers: Automation Engineer, Bio Engineer, Biochemical Engineer, Bioengineer, Biomechanical Engineer, Biomedical Electronics Technician, Biomedical Engineer, Biomedical Engineering Director, Biomedical Engineering Supervisor, Biomedical Engineering Technician, Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET), Biomedical Field Service Engineer, Biomedical Manager, Biomedical Scientist, Biomedical Technician, Bioprocess Engineer, Certified Orthotist, Certified Prosthetist, Clinical Engineer, Clinical Engineering Director, Dialysis Engineer, Imaging Engineer, Medical Engineer, Nanotechnologist, Orthopedic Designer, Product Development Engineer, Project Engineer, Research Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), Validation Engineer, Validation Specialist,

What do Biomedical Engineers do?

  • Develop new applications for energy sources, such as using nuclear power for biomedical implants.
  • Evaluate the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of biomedical equipment.
  • Install, adjust, maintain, and/or repair biomedical equipment.
  • Advise hospital administrators on the planning, acquisition, and use of medical equipment.
  • Advise and assist in the application of instrumentation in clinical environments.
  • Research new materials to be used for products such as implanted artificial organs.
  • Develop models or computer simulations of human bio-behavioral systems in order to obtain data for measuring or controlling life processes.
  • Design and develop medical diagnostic and clinical instrumentation, equipment, and procedures, utilizing the principles of engineering and bio-behavioral sciences.
  • Conduct research, along with life scientists, chemists, and medical scientists, on the engineering aspects of the biological systems of humans and animals.
  • Teach biomedical engineering, or disseminate knowledge about field through writing or consulting.
  • Design and deliver technology to assist people with disabilities.
  • Diagnose and interpret bioelectric data, using signal processing techniques.
  • Adapt or design computer hardware or software for medical science uses.
  • Analyze new medical procedures in order to forecast likely outcomes.

Do you enjoy these?

  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Accelerometers
  • Acoustic sensors
  • Modulators
  • Physiological recorders
  • Thickness measuring devices
  • Wave generators
  • Physiological recorders
  • Bacteria transformation kits
  • Microcontrollers
  • Biometric identification equipment
  • Amplifiers
  • Frequency calibrator or simulator
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Electrometers
  • Tissue culture incubators
  • Sterilization cabinets
  • Fatigue testers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Circuit tester
  • Viscosimeters
  • Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories
  • Deflecting devices
  • Desktop computers
  • Sonometers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Medical radiation dosimeters
  • Dynamometers
  • Proton spectrometers
  • pH electrodes
  • pH electrodes
  • Electroencephalography EEG units or accessories
  • Electromyography EMG units or accessories
  • pH electrodes
  • Electrometers
  • Endoscope maintenance units or accessories
  • Pressure indicators
  • Camera based vision systems for automated data collection
  • Flexure or transverse testing machines
  • Flow injection analysis equipment
  • Fluorescent microscopes
  • Pressure indicators
  • Pressure indicators
  • Infrared spectrometers
  • Radio frequency RF switches
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Gas or vapour concentration measuring instruments
  • Glass injection moldings
  • Neuromuscular stimulators or kits
  • Pressure indicators
  • Hardness testers
  • Digital cameras
  • Immunology or serology quality controls or calibrators or standards
  • Impact testers
  • Electrometers
  • Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
  • Pressure indicators
  • Electrometers
  • Isolators
  • Notebook computers
  • Laser cutting tools
  • Electronic loads
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Computed tomography CT or CAT radiotherapy simulators
  • Fatigue testers
  • Compression testers
  • Microcontrollers
  • pH electrodes
  • Microscopic structure estimation apparatus
  • Transmission electron microscopes
  • Plastic injection moldings
  • Microplate readers
  • Microplate washers
  • Microplates
  • Drug delivery systems or accessories
  • Drug delivery systems or accessories
  • Milling machines
  • Hemacytometer sets
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Electronic actuators
  • Flexure or transverse testing machines
  • Scanning electron microscopes
  • Multimeters
  • Medical computed tomography CT or CAT contrast agent injectors
  • Electrometers
  • Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
  • Tweezers
  • Physiological recorders
  • Oscilloscopes
  • Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories
  • Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories
  • Physiological recorders
  • Piezo electric crystals
  • Piezo electric crystals
  • Pressure indicators
  • Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
  • Plastic injection molds
  • Physiological recorders
  • Tissue culture coated plates or dishes or inserts
  • Tissue culture coated plates or dishes or inserts
  • Rapid amplification or complementary deoxyribonucleic acid ends RACE technology products
  • Medical positron emission tomography PET units
  • Pressure indicators
  • Electrometers
  • Pressure sensors
  • Electro pneumatic transducers
  • Tension testers
  • Surface tension measuring instruments
  • Pulse oximeter units
  • Q Meters
  • Medical radiation dosimeters
  • Amplifiers
  • Bacteria transformation kits
  • Scanning probe microscopes
  • Pneumatic actuators
  • Fatigue testers
  • Medical single photon emission computed tomography SPECT units
  • Skinfold calipers
  • Tissue culture apparatus
  • Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • Wear testers
  • Flexure or transverse testing machines
  • Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
  • Sterilization sets
  • Force or torque sensors
  • Strain gauges
  • Dye sublimination printers
  • Magnetometers
  • Physiological recorders
  • Treadmills
  • Physiological recorders
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo probes
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo transducers or accessories
  • Electrometers
  • X ray and fluoroscopy RF radiotherapy planning simulators
  • Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use

Technology used

  • Project management software
  • Pattern design software
  • Word processing software
  • Charting software
  • Presentation software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Content workflow software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Configuration management software
  • Development environment software
  • Enterprise application integration software
  • Object or component oriented development software
  • Program testing software
  • Requirements analysis and system architecture software
  • Web platform development software
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Compliance software
  • Medical software
  • Computer aided manufacturing CAM software