Bioengineering

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Biological engineering (also biosystems engineering and bioengineering) is a broad-based engineering discipline that deals with bio-molecular and molecular processes, product design, sustainability and analysis of biological systems. Generally, bioengineering encompasses other engineering disciplines when they are applied to living organisms (e.g., prosthetics in mechanical engineering). Bioengineering is often synonymous with biomedical engineering, though in the strict sense the term can be applied more broadly to include food engineering and agricultural engineering. Biotechnology also falls under the purview of the broad umbrella of bioengineering. Biological Engineering is the same thing as Agricultural Engineering, whereas Biomedical engineering (also known as bioengineering) is related with the medical field. Biological engineering is called Bioengineering by some colleges and Biomedical engineering is called Bioengineering by others. Therefore, people could easily get confused.

Definition of Bioengineering at Binghamton University

Bioengineering is similar to traditional fields of engineering in that all engineering programs educate individuals in the art of product and process development for the improvement of human health and quality of life. However, bioengineering is unique because of the need to understand the emergent properties (Emergence) of living systems. Living systems, unlike most man-made products and processes, are composed of large numbers of "self-replicating" components, which undergo "self-organization." These features provide living systems with most of their fascinating and complex properties and are the primary focus of bioengineering studies.--Lefevre18 04:14, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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