<p>I want to study biomedical engineering which incorporates things like artificial heart and stuff. However, I have no intention to study things like microorganisms with microscopes which I think is in bioengineering. So, is biomedical engineering the same as bioengineering? </p>
<p>Anyone know the difference if there is? Thank you.</p>
<p>Apparently it varies by school…do you know where you plan to go to college?</p>
<p>Some schools use it interchangeably. Some school’s bioengineering program involves agriculture and food processing, so be sure to check out the curriculum and program description carefully.</p>
<p>The academic discipline that studies, teaches, and improves the art of making artifical parts for humans is different from the discipline that seeks to engineer plants and animals for specific purposes. Unfortunately the nomenclature is vague.</p>
<p>Consult with your prospective schools. As you said, you do not want to study how bacteria can be modified to produce HGH when your goal is to be the creator of an effective artificial heart. I personally hope you have quick success with that one. LOL</p>
<p>IMO biomedical engineers help make artificial parts and medical devices. Bioengineers make plants and animals perform new tasks.</p>
<p>If its this vague then how can employers know the difference? I see on monster.com that some jobs require a biomedical engineering degree. Does that mean a person who has a degree in bioengineering cannot get the job or is unqualified?</p>
<p>Most universities that offer courses in plant or animal genetic “engineering” label those disciplines “biotechnology”. Generally, when “bioengineering” and “biomedical engineering” are within the college of engineering, they mean the same. Whatever the terminology, the areas of concentration within bioengineering can be very diverse, e.g., tissue engineering, materials engineering, mechanical/electrical/computer as in artificial limbs and organs and well as the emerging field of medical robotics, electrical/software for diagnostics, diagnostic imaging (a combination radiation, magnetics, software and magic) and the unlimited spectrum of nanotechnology.</p>
<p>It’s super-confusing but bioengineering and biomedical engineering do not always mean the same thing. At GT, for example, bioengineering is a track in the ECE department that people take if they want to work on the electrical engineering side of biomedical engineering. Biomedical engineering, in the context of GT, is a whole other department.</p>
<p>at my school,Cal Poly,biomedical engineering is a track in the ECE department. Bioengineering seems to be Biotech. My friend in antoher school, UW Madison also said biomedical engineering is a track of ECE but they have a different major called biological chemical engineering and Biotech.</p>