Title :
The universe of activity that is bioengineering research
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bioengineering, California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
What is bioengineering? A concise and meaningful answer to this question is important for pedagogy. This paper demonstrates that research activity within ´bioengineering´ resides in a multidimensional space. A specific study can be characterized by an area into which it falls, a problem that it attacks, a specific level of analysis, a species of focus, pertinent disciplines, relevant tools that are employed, and temporal features. Each represents a dimension of the universe and each dimension may be shown to be largely orthogonal to every other dimension. The universe thus defined is sparsely populated. Accordingly, bioengineering is a field of rich opportunity within which frontiers lie almost everywhere.
Keywords :
biomedical engineering; bioengineering research; pedagogy; Auditory system; Biology; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Cardiology; Education; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Face recognition; Multidimensional systems; Bioengineering areas; bioengineering research;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404436