Title :
Biomedical engineering curriculum: should it be the bioengineering curriculum?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
This paper highlights one disturbing intellectual dilemma "deciding on a definition of biomedical engineering (BME)" that faces BME curricula developers in Australia. It reports on the shortcomings of the Australian curricula in trying encompass biotechnology in classical biomedical engineering courses.
Keywords :
biomedical education; biotechnology; Australian curricula shortcomings; bioengineering curriculum; biomedical engineering curriculum; biotechnology; classical biomedical engineering courses; disturbing intellectual dilemma; Australia; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biotechnology; Design engineering; Genomics; Industrial training; Protein engineering; Proteomics; Tissue engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280912
