Biomedical engineering and biotechnology: applications and advances

¶ … Bioengineer - Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology Application

In today's world, biotechnology and engineering play a very important role in man's day-to-day lie. Biotechnology, engineering coupled with medical sciences are seen as the new key to have a safe and comfortable life.

With biotechnology, research and breakthroughs over food, nutrition, human health and human aspects will pave the way. Even from the start of the 21st century, the benefits of maximizing research over biotechnology have put the overall science and technology aspect into the limelight. Biotechnology is the reason for the development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the likes. Biotechnology is seen to provide high potential in positively affecting human health. Health professionals can either facilitate or diminish this process, according to their level of understanding about the technology and their ability to communicate it effectively. Indeed, Biotechnology is receiving much attention these days amid predictions that an increasing portion of the world's drugs, food, and chemicals will be produced using biotechnology processes and that biotechnology will lead to a cure for cancer, the common cold, and many other diseases. In medicine, biotechnology is hoped to lead to new, better, and cheaper drugs. The use of human insulin produced by recombinant DNA is an example.

Meanwhile, with biomedical engineering, the combination of engineering in the medical field paves the way to better understanding of human health, medicines and equipments thereby providing better life and better medical procedures for man. The degree related to Biomedical engineering, degree offers students a foundation-level understanding of biological processes and skills in both engineering software and hardware for solving problems in biology and medicine. Biomedical engineers work with physicians, therapists and technicians in the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of equipment and medical and manufacturing facilities. This need exists at inpatient and rehabilitation hospitals and clinics, biotech companies, government agencies and universities, and in sales and marketing and other areas of the medical and manufacturing industry. With the continuous use of biomedical engineering, there will surely be more things that will be discovered and will help solve various medical problems.

These are the aspects and ideas which John Doe has been contemplating for a while. These are the thoughts that made him decide to pursue a graduate study related to Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. His has a very strong desire to make use of his interest to sciences to a further level. He is very optimistic that the knowledge and skills he have gained in the university when he took Computer Science will serve as a very valuable starting ground for this graduate study.

With the combined knowledge in Computer Science, Biotechnology and Biomedical engineering, John Doe is hoping that he can prove himself beneficial to the society, particularly in the line of research.

Goals

John Doe has carefully laid down his short- and long-term goals with regards to taking up a graduate study related to Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. Part of his short-term goal is to be able to develop a research focusing on the "Creation and advancement of algorithms, computational and statistical techniques, and theory to solve formal and practical problems posed by or inspired from the management and analysis of biological data." This research will provide series of benefits to the medical field and of course to other future researchers.

As for the medical practitioners, the success of John Doe's" research will help enhance the current systems of managing and analyzing biological data. With the new algorithms and computational statistical techniques that John Doe will come up in his research, there will surely be positive changes that will be applied to the medical practitioners and other healthcare providers particularly in data analyses and presentations.

Meanwhile, part of John Doe's" long-term goal is to focus his career on computational genomics research. He is inspired by different research methods and the benefits of coming up with good research findings.

Thus, he is optimistic that with his Computer Science background coupled with the understanding in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology that he will achieve, he will be able to perform effectively as a researcher on computational genomics.

In this type of career, it is not enough that a researcher is able to present the data. More so, is will not be enough if the researcher knows where and when to get the needed information for a particular idea or concept. What is very essential in being a computational genomics researcher is the fact that the researcher himself knows how to analyze and interpret the data he/she will gather and present the said data in a more meaningful and/or useful way. Thus, the combination of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology is sure to make John Doe an effectual researcher of computational genomics.

The School

John Doe has specifically chosen this school because of its long-term good standing in providing better training of students and of course in giving the better access to information and research.

The students who have graduated to this school have excelled in their own line of career. They are the living proofs that what they have learned in the university can play a very essential role in honing their skills and abilities and in opening better opportunities, locally and internationally.

The school itself has outstanding research facilities which will provide the students with good access to information. The libraries and other research facilities are updated from time to time which assure the students that they are accessing the timely and/or updated versions of books, journals and/or magazines.