Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering (BME) is a new discipline which is highly intersected by science, engineering, medicine and biology. This discipline is devoted to the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and health of people, and provides high-level scientific methods and engineering technical means for exploring life phenomena. Therefore, biomedical engineering will always be a sunrise discipline.
Biomedical engineering applies the most advanced scientific and engineering theories and methods to study the phenomena and laws of human life, so its research fields are extremely extensive and there are many research directions, including: detection and processing of biomedical signals; Medical imaging; Biomedical materials; Artificial organs; Rehabilitation project; Telemedicine; Biochips and so on. Each research direction has a very wide range of content. Therefore, biomedical engineering is also one of the fields where theoretical breakthroughs and technological innovations are most likely to occur in the next few decades.
Basic profile
Tsinghua University's biomedical engineering specialty originated from the biomedical engineering and instrument specialty of Tsinghua University Department of Electrical Engineering founded by 1979. With the establishment of Tsinghua University Medical College, biomedical engineering specialty was transferred to Medical College on 200 1, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Tsinghua University Medical College was established. Biomedical engineering in our school is a first-class discipline, with the right to award bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees, and has established an independent postdoctoral mobile station. With its high-quality teaching and scientific research, it has been widely praised by peers all over the country, and 200 1 has been rated as a national key discipline. The leaders of Tsinghua University University have repeatedly stated that on the occasion of the100th anniversary of the founding of Tsinghua (20 1 1), they will focus on supporting the development of biomedical engineering disciplines and strive to make our biomedical engineering disciplines reach the international advanced level.
At present, there are five teaching laboratories in this discipline (biomedical signal detection and processing laboratory; Medical imaging and medical image processing laboratory; Medical instrument laboratory; Electrophysiology laboratory; Tsinghua University -Ti joint DSP laboratory) and 5 laboratories (biomedical signal detection and processing laboratory; Laboratory of medical engineering and health technology; Eugenics Engineering and Cognitive Science Laboratory; Medical information engineering laboratory; Human motion information testing laboratory).
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has a competent and famous teacher. Teachers 1 1, most of whom have the experience of studying or working abroad. Among them, there are 4 professors and doctoral supervisors, distinguished professor Changjiang 1 person from the Ministry of Education, 5 associate professors and lecturers 1 person. Open recruitment of first-class academic leaders at home and abroad as soon as possible, and strive to reach the scale of 50 teachers within five years.
In addition, the Department of Biomedical Engineering attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation. He is participating in the research of major national topics in brain science, new methods for detecting major diseases, the construction of digital human simulation platform, and the detection of human motion information. And has established extensive cooperative relations with MIT, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Oxford University, University of Sydney, Northwest University, Hong Kong Zhenxiong Group, TI, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, etc. By attracting foreign investment, the base construction has been strengthened, and the overall level of scientific research and teaching has been improved through mutual visits and cooperation.
Main research directions and achievements
At present, the main research directions of this major are: detection and processing of biomedical signals; Medical imaging and medical image processing; Modeling and simulation of physiological system; Human motion and nondestructive testing: medical information and intelligent medical instruments.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has long-term and systematic research in the fields of non-invasive detection, processing and transmission of biomedical information, modeling and simulation of physiological systems, and ultrasonic imaging technology, and its level is at the forefront in China. It has obvious characteristics in brain-computer interface, cardiovascular system simulation, human motion information detection, neuromuscular simulation, fetal monitoring, otoacoustic emission detection, remote home monitoring and so on, and is at the leading level at home and abroad. More than 800 papers were published, of which more than 50 were published in internationally recognized high-level journals in this field, more than 20 were included in SCI, and more than 65,438+000 were included in EI. Three teachers in this department have been invited to be the editorial board members of three IEEE Trans on BME (IEEE Trans on ITB) journals in this field and the guest editor of AUTOMADICA cardiovascular simulation special issue. 12 works in seven domestic societies and nine journals. Professor Bai Jing was also elected as IEEE Fellow.
Personnel training and curriculum setting
The goal of the Department of Biomedical Engineering is to cultivate high-level scientists and outstanding talents who can engage in theoretical research and application development in their own fields.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has formed a relatively complete undergraduate training system with reference to the curriculum framework of similar majors in famous foreign research universities and combined with its own characteristics. We emphasize that students should lay a good foundation in their study, pay attention to the cultivation of ability (especially innovation ability), implement the cultivation mode of "thick foundation and wide caliber", pay attention to practical links, increase elective courses relatively and cancel limited elective courses, thus broadening the space for students to choose courses and develop their personality.
On the one hand, this major requires students to master the basic knowledge of medicine and biology, on the other hand, it requires students to study the professional knowledge of electronics and information in a deep and solid way, such as medical electronics, detection and processing of medical signals, medical images and medical image processing, medical pattern recognition, and the principle and design of medical instruments. In addition, this major also attaches great importance to improving students' mathematics and foreign language level.
In addition to foreign languages, mathematics, physics, humanities, physical education and other public courses, the courses that undergraduates should study (or choose) mainly include: introduction to modern biology; Physiology; Special topics in biology; Introduction to biomedical engineering; Fundamentals of digital electronics technology; Fundamentals of analog electronics technology; High level language programming; Principle and application of microcomputer; Computer graphics; Signals and systems; Digital signal processing; Automatic control principle; Detection and processing of human motion information; Biomedical electronics; Medical electronic instruments; Medical device design; Medical image processing and so on.
The practical links are: electronic technology practice; Cognitive practice; Metalworking practice; Physiological experiment; Comprehensive experiment of electronic technology; Comprehensive training of professional practice; Production practice; Comprehensive training of papers, etc.
Graduation prospect
Due to the emerging, cutting-edge and extensive research and application fields of biomedical engineering, students trained by biomedical engineering have great potential. The employment fields of biomedical engineering graduates are: research and development institutions of medical device enterprises; Scientific research units of biomedical engineering and related disciplines; Large hospital equipment center; Institutions of higher education; National civil servants; Related industries (such as IT, instrumentation, etc. ).
According to the statistics of Tsinghua University Biomedical Engineering 1999 to 2003, among the nearly 160 undergraduates who graduated, about 30 of them went abroad for further study, accounting for about 20%. About 100 people continue to study for graduate students, accounting for about 60%; There are about 30 graduates, accounting for about 20%, and their main employment directions are foreign companies, electronics and information companies.
Actually this major has nothing to do with medicine. It's basically machinery+computer.
The best in China are Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tsinghua.