Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering is what happens when engineers point their tools at the human body. This introduction gives you a working map of the field: what it covers, how the pieces fit together, and where the hard problems still sit.

Nine chapters run in order, each building on the one before, so you can read straight through or jump to the topic you need. The biology gets explained in terms an engineer already thinks in, using forces, signals, materials, and systems, an…