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 Miracle inventions in medicine and biology often require the assistance
of electrical engineers to provide an interface for measurement and/or control. Ingestible
and implantable wireless probes and monitors, wearable brain wave caps, robotic limb
replacement and assistance devices, imaging equipment, and nanotechnology are a few of
the applications requiring an EE partnership. Many doctors were first engineers before
getting a medical degree, and as such do their own circuit and/or mechanical and/or software
design. The
IEEE is executing (maybe the wrong verb to
use when addressing medical topics) an awareness effort to hopefully attract engineers
into the field. Some projects have you working directly with patients and volunteer test
subjects, so if you are one of those fabled non-introverted engineers, this might be
the career course for you.
Posted December 2012
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