What is biomedical engineering technology?
More than ever before the American medical community is determined to prolong both the quality of life and life expectancy of the word’s citizens. To accommodate this demand, the medical community is constantly researching and introducing new medical technologies that effectively create superior cutting edge instruments and devices to assist in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of countless medical conditions. Not surprisingly, there is a large number of health care, medical, and engineering professionals needed to work collectively in the research, development, manufacturing, maintenance and administration of such innovative technologies and tools. As a result, what were once considered highly specialized occupations are now quickly growing and gaining enough definition to become independent disciplines. An example of one of these emerging occupations is biomedical engineering. • Just as biomedical engineering was once identified as a subfield, there are nearly
