Bioengineering

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.

Examples

• Aquaculture
• Biosensors
• Bio-based materials
• Biomaterials
• Bionics
• Industrial fermentation
• Industrial enzymatic reactions
• Production and purification of biopharmaceuticals
• Advanced life support system
• Artificial biospheres, eg. Biosphere 2
• Animal locomotion

External links

• The Institute of Biological Engineering
• About biological engineering at MIT