Bioengineers

Here is where I admit that initially I had very little idea of what it is that Bioengineers actually do. Definitions such as “biological or medical application of engineering principles” (taken from http://www.merriam-webster.com/) are vague and if someone had asked me exactly what it was that Bioengineers do, I would have just blathered out something about engineering with biology. Since then, however, I have done some research and talked to some people with experience and I have learned that the field is so large and encompasses so many different areas that it would take pages and pages and long hours into the morning to even scratch the surface of this branch of engineering. However, to summarize what I have gathered, Bioengineers apply the principles of engineering to the fields of biology and medicine. I believe areas such as organ replacement, prosthetics, genetic engineering, tissue/bone/organ regeneration, surgical robots, and medical electronic devices (just to name a few) all fall within this broad definition. Ironically enough, researching this topic has taught me that the vague answer is probably the more correct one, as the various branches of BE are too numerous to list.