Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Evolution of BME as its own discipline

      BME is a very unique career in the sense that it applies more than one academic field to solve one objective, the improvemnet of healthcare and human lifestyle.  Biomedical engineering has recently evolved as its own discipline in the 21st century. In fact, according to bmecentral.com, researchers have only recently started to name the combination of engineering applications and health science as BME. In fact, the Biomedical Engineering Society was founded in Illinois on Febuary 1, 1968 (BMES).
        According to bmecentral.com, BME has evolved into one of the most important and fastest growing sectors of medical employment. Throughout the years, BME has evolved into several subbranches in order to fulfill several different needs. Several of these divisions of BME are; orthopaedic Bioengineering, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, neural engineering and many more.  These speacilization within BME, have all been a consequence due to the many applications that BME has to offer.

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