Title :
Organizational development of biomedical engineering
Author_Institution :
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
The evolution of biomedical engineering is traced, beginning with its roots in electrophysiology about 200 years ago. Significant research and professional developments during the 1940s, ´50s, and ´60s are sketched. Five major events that contributed to these developments are discussed. They are the split between biophysics and bioengineering (1957), S. Talbot´s BME study grant (1958-60), the impact of the National Institutes of Health (since 1958), the IEEE ´BME-crisis´ (1967/68), and the IEEE Bioengineering Society´s founding (1968) and its BME view as an extension of physiology.<>
Keywords :
biomedical engineering; history; 200 yr; IEEE Bioengineering Society; National Institutes of Health; bioengineering; biomedical engineering evolution; biophysics; electrophysiology; physiology; professional developments; research; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Biomembranes; Biophysics; Cells (biology); Engineering in medicine and biology; Laboratories; Physics; Physiology; Vents;
Journal_Title :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
