Biomedical Engineer:

Design products and procedures that

solve medical problems.

These include artificial organs,

prostheses, instrumentation, medical
information systems, and health
management and care delivery systems.

CRICOS: 00116K
 Treatment:
1. Doctor diagnoses and treat patient
diseases.
2. Biomedical Scientist analyses the
blood from a patient so that the doctor
knows how to diagnose and treat.
3. Biomedical Engineer design the
equipment used to analyse the blood.

CRICOS: 00116K
 Heart Transplant:
1. Biomedical Scientist determines
blood flow and heart functions
2. Biomedical Engineer uses this
information to design the
artificial heart
3. Doctor carries out surgery and
monitors patient health

CRICOS: 00116K
 Replacing Damaged Skin
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how
the artificial skin will be tolerated by
the body.
2. Biomolecular Engineer designs,
operates and maintains the process to
grow the synthetic skin (tissue
engineering).
3. Doctor operates to graft the artificial
skin to the body.
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 Repairing a Damaged Hip
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how
the hip joint functions in the body

2. Biomedical Engineer designs the

prosthesis (artificial hip)

3. Doctor operates on the patient and

monitors the recovery
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 Repairing Damaged Bones
1. Biomedical Scientist establishes how
the bones function in the body.

2. Biomedical Engineer designs the

equipment to be used during surgery
to ensure correct alignment.

3. Doctor operates on the patient and

monitors the recovery.
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 Health Care
Food &
Agriculture
Environmental
Research
Energy
Regulatory
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 Parkville - the major centre in Australia
for medical and bio-scientific research,
education, clinical practice and
production of pharmaceutical and
biotechnology products for clinical trials.
Home to 2,000 researchers, 12 research
institutes, 8 hospitals and 8 major
industrial companies and the new Bio21
complex.
Bio21.
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 Drug Discovery

Bioprospecting & Medicinal

Chemistry

Medical Genetics & Molecular

Diagnostics

Bioengineering & Biocompatible

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 Neurosciences
Clinical Trials to Clinical
Practice
Animal Biotechnology
Environmental & Agricultural
Biotechnology
Molecular Platform
Technologies
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Tissue Engineering

Skeletal muscle after 2 weeks

 Bio Courses

@ Melbourne
Engineering @>
Melbourne

BSc majoring in biomedical or biotechnology

BBiomedSci biomedical science

BE in biomedical and biomolecular

BE/BSc in biochemical engineering

 New in 2005

Engineering @ Melbourne
Engineering @>
Melbourne

BE (Biomedical Engineering)

BE (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

BE (Engineering Management)

All 4 year programs.

biomedical
engineering
imaging
biomechanics
bioinfomatics
system engineering
tissue engineering
prosthetic devices
system modelling
clinical engineering
health engineering
 4 year program
No mid-year entry
Degree name is Bachelor of
Engineering (Biomedical)
Combined degrees not possible
Most programs in Australia
either 5 year combined
degrees, or BE with single
subject biomedical electives
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 BIOMEDICAL Engineering

What is Biomedical Engineering ?

Biomedical engineering is the application
of techniques drawn from engineering to
the analysis and solution of problems in
biology and medicine.
Biomedical engineering applies the
techniques of all classical engineering
disciplines to problems encountered in
living systems.
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 BIOMEDICAL Engineering
Increasing focus on health issues, aging
populations around the world – growing
expectations of the delivery of better
medical devices & equipment designed
by Biomedical Engineers.
‘Employment of Biomedical Engineers
is expected to grow faster than all
occupations in US through to 2012’
(Source: US Department of Labour – Bureau of
Labor Statistics – www.bls.gov)
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 BIOMEDICAL Engineering
Four Programs :
biocellular engineering
bioinfomatics
biomechanics
biosignals processing
First two years largely common
(strong links with Biomedical
Science in early years)

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