An Introduction to Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA 

Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Madhavan et al. (eds.). Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-76495-5 l, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008 

Biotechnology is the use of biological processes, organisms, or systems to manufacture products intended to improve the quality of human life.The earliest biotechnologists were farmers who developed improved species of 

The ability to design systems and products is a key element of any field of engineering, so it is natural to expect that biomedical engineers would be the ones designing medical products and devices. However, biomedical engineering is still a small field relative to electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering. 

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