Introduction To Bioengineering

Yuen-cheng Fung · Shu Chien · David A Gough · Marcos Intaglietta · Ghassan S Kassab · Bernard O Palsson · Robert L Sah · Geert W Schmid-schoenbein · Lanping Amy Sung · Pin Tong · Michael R T Yen · Wei Huang

May 2001 · Advanced Series In Biomechanics Book 2 · World Scientific Publishing Company

About this eBook

Bioengineering is attracting many high quality students. This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them.Engineering is invention and designing things that do not exist in nature for the benefit of humanity. Invention can be taught by making inventive thinking a conscious part of our daily life. This is the approach taken by the authors of this book. Each author discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments and write a report. Almost everybody soon realizes that more scientific knowledge is needed, and a strong motivation for the study of science is generated. The teaching of inventive thinking is a new trend in engineering education. Bioengineering is a good field with which to begin this revolution in engineering education, because it is a youthful, developing interdisciplinary field.

About the author

Y C Fung (UC San Diego)