Essay On Biomedical Engineering

Our generation is faced with many growing global issues. Many of which have to do with solving medical and healthcare matters. As population increases, as does the risk of an increase in the spread of disease or epidemic growth. This calls for a growing need in biomedical engineering to develop the ideas to save humanity in the future. Biomedical Engineering is a complex process of solving, and then designing ways to solve problems in the human body using medicines or technology to improve humanities overall health. More specifically, Biomedical Neural Engineers, or neuroengineers, works with comprehending, improving, enhancing, and restoring parts of the nervous system. I chose this type of engineer because they focus on the electrical impulses that control the human body, including the brain, and how we can make them superior. There are a variety of different subjects within neural engineering; some of which include brain-machine interface, neurorobotics, tissue regeneration, neuro-rehabilitation, neuro-therapeutics, neural control, neural prostheses, and theoretical/computational neuroscience. The possibilities in this specialty field are endless. Your average neural engineer will spend years working towards and researching in one of these particular subjects. Usually, they hope …show more content…
Though the demand for employees in the field is low (at nearly 2 out of 5 stars), there is a large escalation in the amount neural engineers. In 2012, there were around 19,400 neural engineers total in the U.S. It is expected for this career to have a 26.6% growth rate, meaning around 24,600 neural engineers will be in the field by 2020. Engineering in itself has taken off as one of the largest priorities in schools around the world. As more and more students become interested in engineering the career will begin to take off in ways we never