Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering (BME) discipline is an emerging discipline with a high degree of intersection of science, engineering, medicine and biology. The discipline is committed to human disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and health, and is committed to exploring the phenomenon of life, to provide a high level of scientific methods and engineering technology means. Therefore, biomedical engineering discipline will always be the sunrise discipline.
Because biomedical engineering applies the most advanced scientific and technological theories and methods to study the phenomena and laws of human life, its research field is extremely broad, and its research direction is also very much, the main are: detection and processing of biomedical signals; medical imaging; biomedical materials; artificial organs; rehabilitation engineering; telemedicine; biochip and so on. In each research direction has a very wide range of content. Therefore, the field of biomedical engineering is also one of the most likely theoretical breakthroughs and technological innovation in the next few decades.
Basic Overview
The biomedical engineering program at Tsinghua University originated from the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program of the Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, which was founded in 1979. With the establishment of Tsinghua University School of Medicine, the biomedical engineering program was reorganized to the School of Medicine in 2001, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Tsinghua University School of Medicine was established. Our biomedical engineering program is a first-level discipline with the right to confer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and has established an independent postdoctoral mobile station. It has gained wide acclaim among peers nationwide for its high-quality teaching and scientific research, and was named a national key discipline in 2001. The leaders of Tsinghua University have repeatedly indicated that they will focus on supporting the development of the biomedical engineering discipline in the next few years, and strive to make our biomedical engineering discipline reach the international advanced level by the 100th anniversary of the founding of Tsinghua University (2011).
Currently, the discipline has five teaching laboratories (Biomedical Signal Detection and Processing Laboratory; Medical Imaging and Medical Image Processing Laboratory; Medical Instrumentation Laboratory; Electrophysiology Laboratory; and Tsinghua University-TI Joint DSP Laboratory) and five research laboratories (Biomedical Signal Detection and Processing Laboratory; Medical Engineering and Health Technology Research Laboratory Eugenics Engineering and Cognitive Science Research Laboratory; Medical Information Engineering Research Laboratory; Human Movement Information Detection Research Laboratory).
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has a competent and well-known faculty. There are 11 faculty members, and the vast majority of them have the experience of studying or working abroad. Among them, there are 4 professors and doctoral supervisors, 1 "Changjiang Distinguished Professor" of the Ministry of Education, 5 associate professors and 1 lecturer. We will openly recruit first-class academic leaders at home and abroad as soon as possible, and strive to reach a faculty size of 50 within five years.
In addition, the Department of Biomedical Engineering emphasizes international exchange and cooperation. It is participating in organizing research on major national topics in brain science, new methods for detecting major diseases, construction of digital human body simulation platform, and detection of human body movement information, etc. It has also established a wide range of cooperative relationships with MIT, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, the University of Sydney in Australia, Northwestern University in the United States, the Hong Kong Zhenxiong Group, TI in the United States, IBM, HP, Motorola, etc. By attracting foreign investment, it has strengthened the cooperation relationship with MIT, Columbia University and the University of Chicago. We have established a wide range of cooperative relationships, strengthened base construction by attracting foreign investment, and improved the overall level of scientific research and teaching through mutual visits and cooperation.
Major Research Directions and Achievements
The major research directions of this specialty at present are: detection and processing of biomedical signals; medical imaging and medical image processing; physiological system modeling and simulation; human body movement and non-destructive testing; medical information and intelligent medical instruments.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has long-term systematic research in the fields of non-invasive detection, processing and transmission of biomedical information, modeling and simulation of physiological systems, ultrasound imaging technology, etc., which is at the forefront of the domestic level; and it has more obvious characteristics in the areas of brain-computer interfaces, cardiovascular system simulation, detection of human movement information, neuromuscular simulation, fetal monitoring, otoacoustic emission detection and remote home monitoring, etc., which are at the forefront of the domestic and international fields. The research center has more than 800 papers published, and is in the leading position domestically and at the forefront of the international community. We have published more than 800 papers, among which more than 50 papers have been published in internationally recognized high-level journals in this field, more than 20 papers have been indexed by SCI, and more than 100 papers have been indexed by EI. Among the teachers of this department, three of them have been invited to be the editorial board members of three IEEE repertories in this field (IEEE Trans on BME, IEEE Trans on ITB, IEEE Trans on Rehab) and the guest editor-in-chief of the special issue of cardiovascular simulation of AUTOMADICA, and there are 12 of them serving in 7 societies and 9 journals in China, and Prof. Bai Jing has been elected as IEEE Fellow. Prof. Jing Bai has also been elected as an IEEE Fellow.
Talent Training and Curriculum
The goal of the Department of Biomedical Engineering is to train high-level scientists who are capable of conducting theoretical research and outstanding talents in the field of application development in the field of biomedical engineering.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has developed a complete undergraduate training system by taking into account the framework of the curriculum of similar programs in famous foreign research universities, and by combining the department's own characteristics in its curriculum, textbook development and selection. We emphasize the need for students to lay a good foundation for their studies, attach importance to the cultivation of their abilities (especially the ability to innovate), implement the training mode of "thick foundation and wide aperture", focus on the practical aspects of the relative increase in the number of elective courses, abolish the limited elective courses, thus broadening the space for students to choose courses and the scope of personality development.
This program requires students to master the basic knowledge of medicine and biology on the one hand, and to study in-depth and solid professional knowledge of electronics and information technology in combination with the characteristics of medical disciplines on the other hand, such as medical electronics, detection and processing of medical signals, medical imaging and medical image processing, medical pattern recognition, and the principles and design of medical instruments, etc. In addition, the program also attaches great importance to improving the quality of medical equipment, and to improving the quality of medical equipment. In addition, the program places great emphasis on improving students' math and foreign language skills.
In addition to foreign languages, mathematics, physics, humanities and physical education and other school public **** courses, undergraduate students have to study (or elective) courses are: Introduction to Modern Biology; Physiology; Special Topics in Biology; Introduction to Biomedical Engineering; Fundamentals of Digital Electronics; Fundamentals of Analog Electronics; Advanced Language Programming; Principles and Applications of Microcomputers; Computer Graphics; Signals and Systems; Digital Signal Processing; Principles of Automatic Control; Principles of Human Body Testing and Medical Image Processing; and Principles of Human Body Testing and Medical Image Processing. Signal Processing; Principles of Automatic Control; Detection and Processing of Human Motion Information; Biomedical Electronics; Medical Electronic Instrumentation; Medical Instrumentation Design; Medical Image Processing and so on.
Practical courses include: electronic process internship; understanding internship; gold internship; physiology experiments; comprehensive experiments in electronic technology; comprehensive training in professional practice; production internship; dissertation comprehensive training and so on.
Graduation prospects
Because of the biomedical engineering discipline of emerging, cutting-edge and its research and application of a wide range of fields, so that the training of the students have a "use". Graduates of the Department of Biomedical Engineering are employed in the following fields: research and development institutions of medical instrument companies; research institutes of biomedical engineering and related disciplines; equipment centers of large hospitals; colleges and universities; national civil servants; and related industries (e.g., IT, instrumentation, etc.).
According to the Tsinghua University biomedical engineering program in 1999-2003 five years of statistics, in the graduation of nearly 160 undergraduates: go abroad for further study of about 30 people, accounting for about 20%; continue to read the postgraduate students about 100 people, accounting for about 60%; graduation distribution of about 30 people, accounting for about 20% of the main direction of their employment is foreign enterprises, The main direction of their employment is foreign companies, electronic and information companies.
In fact, this specialty and medicine does not have much to do with, basically mechanical + computer
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