Biomedical Engineering is a dynamic and growing field based upon the application of the tools of engineering to the subject matter of biology. The tools of engineering encompass quantitation, integration, and synthesis. Biology studies living systems, especially the human.
Biomedical engineering is one of the newest engineering disciplines.
Biology itself has changed dramatically since the late fifties as the discovery of the double helix provided a strong molecular unity to its diverse phenomenon, Just as chemical engineering became a powerful discipline in the early nineteen-hundreds as the molecular basis of chemistry became well established, biomedical engineering is building upon this new phase in the history of biology. Biomedical Engineering at Brown At Brown, the undergraduate program in biomedical engineering is an independent concentration structured as a joint program between the division of biology and medicine and the division of engineering. Students thus have access to the strong teaching and research programs of both divisions as well as to a number of courses and research-programs existing at the interface between the two divisions. Biomedical engineering is a newly re-organized concentration first approved in its current form in the Fall of 1999. The first four year class will graduate in 2003.