14. Costs to study Biomedical Engineering:

Now the problem arises of how much it costs to study Biomedical Engineering. In Nepal, it cost a total of NRs. 5,50,000.00 for all four-year courses whereas in India you must pay a total of NRs. 16,00,000.00 to college and others were spent on clothing, flooding, and lodging.

15. Roles of Biomedical Engineers in society

As we get conclusion Biomedical Engineering is a vast term so to be an effective Biomedical engineer, the student must have versatile knowledge in many fields such as physics, mechanical, computer and electronics, mathematics, clerical, design, engineering science, and technology. A renowned Biomedical Engineer can get a chance to work with a team. In a team with other Engineers or with manufacturing Professors or researchers, Biomedical engineers create innovation for society in the medical field that saves the life and makes patients feel safer and more comfortable. Those Biomedical Engineers who graduated are in research, and chemistry, assisting life scientists and other scientists to develop and evaluate medical systems and products. Some renowned research units include the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering (BIB) and the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME).

As Biomedical is a versatile subject, biomedical engineers have versatile roles. They can work at health charities, medical equipment manufacturing companies, or hospital trusts. They even work as a medical physicist, electrical engineer, electronics engineer, clinical research associate, audiological scientists, material scientists, biomedical scientists, and research scientists. As there is a thought that medicine and engineers are like the same pole of a magnet. They will never be apart. To bridge the gap between medicine and engineering, a sophisticated level of scientific and technical knowledge is required for bioengineers. Graduation in Bioengineering is a sure job but job titles can vary which depends on the exact nature of the work and typically depends on where we are going to work. Biomedical engineers can evaluate the safety and effectiveness of biomedical equipment.

They can also deal with the efficiency of equipment, installment, and maintenance or repair of medical equipment. An engineer can advise hospital administrators on the acquisition, planning, and use of medical equipment. Biomedical engineers can also assist and advise in the application of instruments in a clinical environment. They can also research other new materials that can be used for products such as implanted artificial organs; design and develop medical diagnostic and clinical instrumentation, develop models or computers simulations of a human biobehavioral system that helps to take data for measuring or controlling life processes, design and develop equipment and procedures by using the principle of engineering and biobehavioral science.

Besides these, the Biomedical engineers conduct research in the Calabrian with a medical scientist, chemist, and life scientist on engineering aspects of the biological system of humans and animals. They can teach biomedical engineering or can spread out knowledge about this field through writing or consulting and can design new society innovative technology to assist people with disabilities. As we can say a bachelor’s degree is the first step in engineering. Most careers want to have a degree as an entry-level requirement. The only college in Nepal which is providing education for Biomedical is the College of Biomedical and Applied science. It is providing this service since 2005.

As biomedical science does not have provisions for research, each graduate must work either in hospitals as a maintenance staff or in a medical device supplying company as a medical device sales officer. However, the globalized world leads every graduate to go abroad and involve in research activities. After graduation, students can join in some of the related fields such as masters in biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, molecular and cellular engineering, drug regulation and drug delivery system, rehabilitation engineering, intracellular physiological control mechanism, plasma engineering, and so on. Most of the engineers go to join the MBA degree as a marketing team which is very important for the uplift of the devices. These types of skilled manpower are necessary who help in advertising biomedical products and who have proper knowledge of the working, manufacturing, and repairing of such products.

As Biomedical Engineering is a new concept, the demand for this course is increasing day by day in Nepal. If several hospitals and clinics are established in Nepal, then the need for installment and maintenance of the equipment is necessary. So the demand for biomedical engineers is increasing day by day. The advancement of the medical field is the rapid way all over the world so Nepal is also on its way to improving its medical industries.

Biomedical engineering is now emerging as a very important course as it has the potential to unlock a door to a better and successive world. Integration of biomedical engineering in addition to medical research and education, it has been possible to create some creative innovations that are obvious factors to uplift the quality and standard of life. This is the reason that it is swiftly emerging all over Nepal as well as the world. Yet this course is not being highly introduced in Nepal. Advancement of Biomedical engineering needs the government of Nepal to implement a policy and declare a rule to have at least a biomedical engineer in every hospital and clinic.

Those students who are interested in the field of medical terminology, electronics, and biomedical instrumentation and who want to work in hospitals, independent service organizations, or original equipment manufacturers can apply to Biomedical engineering which is great for those.

Hence Biomedical engineering is one of the exciting as well as the rapidly growing field. Moreover, it ranks as the top demanding course both nationally as well as internationally. No medical treatment can be possible without Biomedical engineering as doctors need biomedical devices to diagnose and treat patients. And it is only biomedical engineers who manufacture such medical devices. It clears the need for biomedical engineering and proves that biomedical engineering is compulsory to sustain mankind and quality of life.

As is already mentioned that biomedical engineering includes various aspects. Some of the pursuits of this course consist of research in innovative devices for the implantation of artificial organs. it is necessary to discover and improve some medical devices to transfer some organs like kidneys, eyes, heart, etc.

It is also needed to develop a modern diagnostic device for blood analysis. Biomedical engineering has innovated human heart modeling computers which control the functions of the human heart artificially. It has also developed written software to conclude the research in the medical field. It’s one of the major aspects that includes an analysis of the hazardous effects of medical devices and the measures for safety and efficiency which is very necessary to be implemented. moreover, its new achievement is regarded as the advancement of some new diagnostic imaging systems. Biomedical engineers are needed to design telemetry systems for monitoring patients also.

Human physiology has benefited from biomedical engineers with the development of biomedical sensors to measure human physiologic variables. it has developed some expert methods of diagnosis of diseases as well as a designed closed-loop control system for drug administration. Not only that, there have been dramatic changes in the field of sports medicine and dental treatment just because of biomedical engineering. Communication aids for the handicrafts like hearing devices for the deaf, advancement of commutating systems, and upliftment of their living standard are possible due to biomedical engineering. The study of the biomechanics of the human body and pulmonary fluid dynamics is also an important aspect of this course. It has developed some materials to be used as a replacement for human skin during skin transplantation.

Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that consists of theoretical, nonexperimental, and undertakings to state of art applications. It is a course that holds research, development, and implementation followed by its operation. Like medical practice, it is sure that no person seems to have been an expert in the entire field of biomedical engineering. Yet, there is interplay and overlapping of interests and efforts just because of the interdisciplinary nature of those activities. For instant, some biomedical engineers who are interested in the development of biosensors might have interacted with some of the engineers who are interested in prosthetic devices to develop a single means to detect and may use the same bioelectric signal to power the device. Similarly, those engaged in clinical chemistry laboratories also may collaborate with those developing expert systems to help the clinics in decision-making based on the specific data of the laboratory. These mentioned possibilities tend to be endless.

Author: Amrit Chapagain