Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering

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What Biomedical Engineers do Their salaries Potential job positions Current inventions and future trends Cost of losing a semester Classes offered in FIU Main Employers Ethical Cases

What is Biomedical Engineering?

What is Biomedical Engineering?

The branch of engineers that think up and create medical devices. Stethoscopes Echograms CT Scans Dialysis machines Even syringes

History History

• Was first recognized as an official discipline in the 1940’s

• But was actually first seen in:• Stethoscope

• Prosthetic Body Parts

Sub-disciplinesSub-disciplines Instruments and Device Engineers

Design and create a model of what they want to create, and how it is supposed to work.Some current examples attributed by this

branch: Jarvik-7 artificial Pace maker Prosthetic eyes Prosthetic breasts Prosthetic testes, limbs, and joints.

Jarvik-7 Artificial HeartProsthetic Breast

Prosthetic Eye

Prosthetic Limbs

Hip Joint Replacement

MRI of Brain

Pump for Insulin Infusion

Sub-disciplinesSub-disciplines Bio Material Engineers

They obtain the ideas of the Instruments and Device Engineer and make the product biocompatible by choosing materials that areNon-toxicDurableNon-carcinogenic

These are crucial factors considering they will be implanted into a patient

Sub-disciplinesSub-disciplines Image Processing

They create non-invasive exploratory machinery, this allows for lower risk investigation of internal problems in a patient

Some machines areEchograms

Used to view the heart to identify murmurs, or arrhythmia

Also used to monitor fetuses throughout development

CT Scans Identify tumors, kidney stones, ovarian cysts.

Description of Courses at FIU

Description of Courses at FIU

* = required strengths (classes that require math, science, or engineering)

Possible FunctionsPossible Functions Designer

Basically come up with ideas and sketches for biomedical devicesRelates to Instrument and Device

Engineer

Analyzer Analyzes designers idea, and attempts

to make it functional as well as biocompatibleRelates to Materials Engineer

Possible FunctionsPossible Functions Presenter (To Clients)

Present the new product to doctors hospitals and clinics, proving its simplicity and usefulness in order to have a client to promote this product to patients.

Presenter (To Patients) This includes doctors, just having

information on as well as using the new product so that more people learn of its simplicity and effectiveness.

Sue H. AbreuSue H. Abreu

Career Life: Nuclear Medicine U.S. Army Medical Corps President of ICANL

Life Outside Work: Skydiving U.S. Parachute Team

Volunteer: Team Doctor

Ethical CasesEthical Cases “Infants Under Pressure”

MedTech fires professional engineer, Sam Wilson, who discovers error in infant respirators

Stem Cell Human embryos used for research cause

controversy

In vitro Fertilization “test-tube babies”

Future TrendsFuture Trends

Healthcare dominating

Innovations: Browsing brain, world-wide

diagnosing More efficient prosthesis Cure cancer

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Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

2008 January February March April May June

Your Salary 0 0 0 0 4280 4280

Comparison 4280 4280 4280 4280 4280 4280

Difference 4280 4280 4280 4280 0 0

2009 January February March April May June

Your Salary 4280 4280 4280 4280 4494 4494

Comparison 4494 4494 4494 4494 4494 4494

Difference 214 214 214 214 0 0

2010 January February March April

Your Salary 4494 4494 4494 4494

Comparison 4718.7 4718.7 4718.7 4718.7

Difference 224.7 224.7 224.7 224.7

Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

For all years after the first: Let x = years passed, s = Starting

Salary S = Your Salary = s(1.05x) Comparing Salary (C)= S(1.05) Loss Per Month = C – S

S(1.05) – SS(1.05 – 1)(s(1.05x))(.05)

Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

Calculating Cost of Losing One Semester Over 30 Years

A to P

Years Loss Per Month A to P Loss Per Year n Total

  $4,280.00 $16,978.28 0 $16,978.28

0 $214.00 $848.91 1 $816.26

1 $224.70 $891.36 2 $824.11

2 $235.94 $935.93 3 $832.04

3 $247.73 $982.72 4 $840.04

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… …   … Grand Total $44,130.34

Main Employers In Florida

Main Employers In Florida

Cordis Corp., Miami Lakes, FL Biomedical devices manufacturer

Andrx Corp., Davie, FL Specialty Pharmaceuticals Developer

Beckman Coulter Inc., Miami, FL Medical Instrument Systems Manufacturer

Boston Scientific, Miami, FL Medical Devices Manufacturer

Ivax Corp. , Miami, FL Pharmaceutical Developer, Manufacturer

Main Employers Nationally

Main Employers Nationally

1. ABC Coding SolutionsAlbuquerque, NM

2. Lumidigm IncAlbuquerque, NM

3. MIOX CorporationAlbuquerque, NM

4. Star CryoelectronicsSanta Fe, NM

Job Stability, Internships, and Voluntary Works

Job Stability, Internships, and Voluntary Works

Growing healthcare and medical devices industry needs growing number of industry professionals

Internship available at hospitals, clinics, and universities NIH – National Institute of Health NASA – National Aeronautics and Space

Administration

Voluntary work can be completed at Mercy Hospital - Miami, FL

Job PostingsJob Postings

Top Ranked Medical Device Company in Bergen County, NJ $55,000 - $70,000 Quality Engineer QA Compliance Auditor Reliability Engineer (Product

Surveillance)

The Vision of the BMES is to serve as the lead society and professional home for biomedical engineering and bioengineering by: Enhancing interactions with industry and

clinical medicine Publishing the high quality journal Promoting the education of the next

generation of biomedical engineers Maximizing the performance of the discipline

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