About the program
Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that combines biology and engineering. Biomedical engineers and combines engineering principles with medical and biological sciences to design and create equipment, devices, computer systems, and software used in healthcare .
The demand for biomedical engineers or medical equipment engineers has increased as general society shifts towards the daily use of machines and technology in all aspects of life .
Biomedical engineering is one of the newest engineering disciplines that emerged with the development of modern medicine. While physicians once performed all diagnostic, treatment, and even drug manufacturing tasks, medical devices have become an essential complement to physicians in diagnosing, treating, and monitoring patients.
Given the urgent need to develop medical devices and equipment to serve the health of patients and speed up their recovery, it was necessary to involve specialists from fields other than medicine to design these devices, such as electrical, mechanical, and computer engineers. These engineers also had to be familiar with medical sciences, such as human anatomy and physiology, to understand the mechanism of each system and harness their knowledge and expertise to develop these devices. Consequently, the need arose for an engineer who had partial knowledge of all these specialties on the one hand and could interact with doctors on the other, but in any case, he was not a substitute for any of them .