Biomedical Engineers
By Carolyn Kolb
And
Jackie DiMaria
Table of Contents
Page 3 Definition
Page 4 Working tasks
Page 5 Famous Engineer
Page 6 Famous Engineer
Page 7 Projects Being done
Page 8 Professor
Page 9 Jobs you can get with degree
Page 10 Salary
Page 11 Work Condition
Definition of Biomedical
Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering- They study how
living things work. They do research and
perform experiments to reconstruct robotic
surgical instruments.
What a biomedical engineer
does…
1) Design and test new and practical
materials, devices, and experiments that help
equipment;including people with
programming disabilities live safely
electronics and and independently
trouble-shooting 3) Discussing and
problems solving problems with
2) Research to solve manufacturing,
clinical problems. quality, purchasing,
They do hands-on and marketing
department
Famous Biomedical Engineers
• Yuan Cheng Fung: founder of the biomedical engineering
department at UC, SD. He graduated from Cal Tech. He is
famous for remolding tissue
Bonnie Dunbar
She earned her BS and MS in mechanical,
biomedical, and ceramic engineering from
Washington University. She as a professor at Houston
U and is a Nasa Astronaut
Projects being done at Rutgers
1) Clinical methods
development using
ultra fast lasers for
assessing cancer
tissue viability.
2) Clustering
techniques for
evaluating genomic
and proteomic data
Professor at Rutgers University
Stanley M. Dunn is a biomedical engineer and a
professor. He finished working on three papers from
1999-2001. Stanley is currently working on two projects
that are dealing with creating new methods in biomedical
engineering.
Jobs that you can get with a
degree
You can be a…….
• Biomedical scientist: deals with
laboratory tests on human samples
• Clinical biochemist: develops methods
of analysis and data interpretations of
patient samples
*Work Hours: 9a.m.- 5p.m.
*8 hour work day
*Longer hours may be necessary at certain stages of a project
*they work in either an office, laboratory, workshop,
manufacturing plant, clinical, or other medical settings.
*There is an approximate ratio of 60:40 male female
In 2002 Bio Medial Engineers, made around
$60,410. 50% earned between $58,320 and $88,830. The
lowest 10% earned less than $48,450. The highest 10%
earned around $107,520.