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What is bioengineering?
Intersection of engineering, medicine and the physical and natural sciences,
Bioengineering exploits new developments in molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and neurosciences as well as sensing, electronics, and imaging, to encompass any situation where technology must interface with a living system.
Bioengineers are mostly focused on help people lead longer, healthier, and more productive lives, and promoting environmental sustainability. Are currently there greater challenges for our world?
Bioengineering integrates physical, chemical, or mathematical sciences and engineering principles for the study of biology, medicine, behaviour, or health. It advances fundamental concepts, creates knowledge for the molecular to the organ systems levels, and develops innovative biologics, materials, processes, implants, devices, and informatics approaches for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, for patient rehabilitation, and for improving health.
July 24, 1997 - Bioengineering Definition Committee - US National Institute of Health
Bioengineering combines the analytical and experimental methods of the engineering profession with the biological and medical sciences to achieve a more detailed understanding of biological phenomena and to develop new techniques and devices.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2002 Jun 15, 36(12), 2572 - 80 |
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Prolonged human presence in space has been studied extensively only in Earth orbiting space stations. Manned missions beyond Earth’s orbit, require addressing further challenges: e.g. distances exclude effective tele-operation; travel times, distances and the absence of safe abort and return options add physiological stress; travel times require novel closed-cycle life support systems; robotic extravehicular activities require the development of hardware for semiautonomous exploratory, inspection and maintenance tasks, partly tele-controlled by human operators inside the spacecraft. These few examples suggest that if the endeavour of interplanetary manned space flight has to become a realistic future possibility, the technological support to astronauts will need to be substantially developed. 
