Biomechanics
What does biomechanics study?
How the body moves
What does biomedical imaging let doctors do?
See inside the body without surgery
What are biomaterials used for?
Making safe materials that can go inside the body
What do tissue engineers do?
Grow cells and tissues to repair the body or test medicine
What does biomedical computing do to help doctors?
Uses computers to process data
What tool helps people move after losing a leg or arm?
Prosthetic leg or arm
What imaging tool shows your bones?
X-ray
What strong material can replace a hip or knee joint?
Metal joint
What new skin can engineers grow to heal burns?
Skin graft
What generic device can track your heartbeat and steps?
Smartwatch
What wearable robot helps weak muscles move?
Exoskeleton
What imaging tool uses sound waves to look inside the body?
Ultrasound
What fake covering helps wounds heal faster?
Artificial skin
What can tissue engineers make to help fix or replace damaged organs?
Lab-grown tissue
What tool can find patterns that relate to disease on X-rays?
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What device measures how fast or smoothly someone moves?
Motion sensor
What imaging tool can take detailed pictures of the brain and soft organs?
MRI
What tiny tube keeps blood flowing in the heart?
Heart stent
What small chip acts like a mini organ for testing medicine?
Organ-on-a-chip
What do computers study to choose the genetically right medicine for a person?
DNA data
Design challenge: A child has trouble bending their knee. Using what you know about biomechanics, what could you design to help them walk?
Example response: A powered knee frame (exoskeleton)
Design challenge: Doctors can already see bones, but they want to watch soft organs as food moves through the body. What kind of tool could you design to travel through the digestive tract and take pictures/videos along the way?
Example response: An ultrasound capsule camera
Design challenge: You are designing a new ear. What properties should the material have to make the ear both realistic and safe inside the body?
Example response: It should be soft and flexible, biocompatible, and the eardrum part should be thinner so it can vibrate to sound
Design challenge: A patient’s heart is too weak to test a new medicine. What could you grow or build in a lab to test the medicine safely, and what properties should it have?
Example response: Make a heart-on-a-chip that beats like a real heart
Design challenge: Some patients faint without warning. What would you design to predict fainting before it happens, and what body signals would you track, and how would it alert the patient?
Example response: A smartwatch that tracks heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and body temperature. If those numbers drop too quickly, it could send an audio warning or vibration before the person faints