Does Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Education Produce Real Engineers?

This note presents the results of a study of undergraduate biomedical engineering education done during the 1980-1981 academic year. The curricula from 29 institutions offering a degree program or an option in biomedical engineering were tabulated by subject category and compared to the older discipline of electrical engineering. The object was to determine how much, if any, reduction there is in engineering course work in order to includelife sciences in the biomedical engineering programs, and if the amount of life sciences is enough to adequately provide for students' needs. An attempt is also made to correlate the purpose of the programs and the content of their curricula Course catalog information and a survey sent to the 29 universities were used to assess the information.