ENGINEERING & MEDICINE SYMBIOSIS – AN EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Biomedical Engineering integrates knowledge from Engineering, Science, and Technology to solve health-related problems in Biology and Medicine. Eventually, Biomedical Engineers work shoulder to shoulder with medical specialists in various health-care applications and research. A Biomedical Engineering unit was introduced by this author into a course of Mechatronic Engineering in WSU to reflect an increasing interaction between Engineering and Medicine and prepare future professionals for meeting health-related engineering challenges ahead. This involved inviting medical professionals and engineering specialists to address students about application of engineering tools in the course of their practice and also liaising with the School of Nursing as well as with the local Hospital. Such an approach was very well received by all who participants in the process. Since WSU has a School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Engineering, it is now in a position to start a Biomedical Engineering undergraduate degree.