With technology playing an increasingly large role in today’s healthcare industry, the world faces a demand for engineers who can understand, model, and design complex health systems.
Canada’s largest engineering school offers interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs in biomedical engineering (BME). The undergraduate program is housed within the Department of Systems Design Engineering. The graduate program is a partnership between three Faculty of Engineering departments: Systems Design Engineering, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Designing a functional forearm prosthesis
BME students tap into muscle control to design a prosthetic for transradial amputees.
Building a Solder Man
Luka Cepuran, Darren Murdoch, and Immanuel Simon, second-year Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students, share their experience designing a low-cost, EMG-controlled prosthetic designed specifically for handling a soldering iron.
Soft robots go right to the site of kidney stones
Waterloo researchers develop new minimally invasive treatment to rapidly ease kidney stone pain with targeted drug delivery