What's the difference between Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biomechanical Engineering?

Evelynn - that's a great question, here's my understanding of these fields of study.

Bioengineering is a relatively new field of engineering, and it encompasses the other two fields you asked about, biomedical and biomechanical.

Bioengineering applies the principles of engineering design and analysis to biological systems. Bioengineering is based in biology the same way that chemical engineering is based in chemistry and mechanical engineering in mechanics.

Biomedical engineering is focused on the application of engineering principles to the science of medicine as it relates to healthcare. It is a rapidly developing field as the science of medicine is rapidly evolving. Biomechanical engineering is a subset of biomedical engineering, and looks specifically at how mechanics are applied to biological systems, such as the human body.

Hope that you find this helpful. Best of luck with your studies!

Biomechanical Engineering/Bioengineering : Biomechanical engineering, also called Bioengineering, is the engineering discipline that is usually recognized as a subset of Biomedical engineering. This is basically a research oriented field in which the activities are carried out using the principles in physical sciences in order to create a better understand in biological systems. The field is the application of various engineering principles to the living structures.

Biomedical engineering: Biomedical engineering is the more broadly encircling field which includes the improvement of engineering solutions that is applied to both biological and clinical fields. Biomedical field is a recently emerged independent engineering discipline compared to others. This field can be said as bridge between the engineering and medicine. It integrates the design concepts and problem solving skills in the engineering field with medicine and life sciences for the development of healthcare diagnosis, therapy and monitoring.

Key difference between biomedical and biomechanical engineering:

Biomedical engineering is the field which implements the engineering principles to the life sciences whereas Biomechanical or Bioengineering involves the application of engineering principles to the movements of living things.

Biomedical engineering is the field which seeks to fill the gap between engineering and medicine whereas the Biomechanical engineering applies its concepts and design to create various products that are useful for the biological systems.

Even though Biomedical engineering and Biomechanical engineering deals in the same field, they are at poles apart.