Types of Engineers
They usually design and install equipment and devices, such as artificial internal organs, replacements for body parts, and machines for diagnosing medical problems. I also adjust, maintain, repair, or provide technical support for this equipment.
Biomedical Engineer
A first attempt or early design of a new product or creation. May be revised many times
Prototype
What does a biomedical engineer design to help people move after an injury?
What is a prosthetic or orthotic?
This organ pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the heart?
Biomedical engineers helped develop this precise controlled technology to perform ___ surgeries.
What is robotic surgery?
Mechanical Engineer
A six-step process that engineers use to aid throughout development of any product
Engineering Design Process
This type of tissue connects muscles to bones
What are tendons?
Biomedical engineers may study this system to develop better prosthetic control using nerve signals.
What is the nervous system?
These vaccines use ____ to teach the body how to fight viruses.
What are mRNA vaccines?
A professional who uses math, science and technology to create or improve objects and processes related to chemicals, such as paints, plastics, medicines and more
Chemical Engineer
Any man-made object that makes our lives easier
Technology; innovation
What body system does a pacemaker help support?
What is the circulatory system?
Biomedical engineers design these machines to help diagnose brain disorders.
X2 if you get the full name
What are EEG (electroencephalogram) or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines?
This test tells if someone has a virus like COVID-19 by detecting its genetic material.
What is a PCR test?
A professional who uses math, science, and technology to create or improve objects and processes related to the care and protection of the environment
Environmental Engineer
The Engineering Design Process has how many steps?
6
This is a 3D-printed device that can replace a missing limb.
What is a prosthetic limb?
What part of the body do cochlear implants help?
What is the ear (hearing)?
Biomedical engineers have started using this type of “printer” to make organs.
What is a 3D printer?
A professional who uses math, science, and technology to create or improve objects and processes which make our lives easier
The steps of the Engineering Design Process are?
1. Ask
2. Brainstorm
3. Design
4. Build
5. Test
6. Improve
A strong wall of muscle that, when moved downward, creates suction in the chest that draws in air and expands the lungs. The _____ separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
Diaphragm
What organ does a dialysis machine help when it fails?
What are the kidneys?
What’s the term for editing genes to cure genetic diseases?
What is CRISPR (or gene editing)?