Human health is the foundation of human survival and development. It is an important objective of sustainable development to enhance human health level. With the development of science and technology, bioengineering, as an interdisciplinary biological technology, is becoming the key driver of these goals. This special issue reviewed and discussed the recent progress and future perspectives of bioengineering technologies in the biomedical applications from the aspects of engineering design, disease diagnosis, gene- and cell-based therapies. We hope this special issue could provide valuable references for promoting bioengineering technologies used for the healthcare applications.
Biomedical Engineering ; Humans

In recent years, more and more new medical devices appears, among them there are many measurement instruments related to consistency and stability of value, and safety to device. Presently China is facing the health policy reforms and medical quantity management system establishment. The primary duty of the clinical engineering is to ensure security and validity of medical devices, and preventing maintenance included of measurement and safety is important measure for the duty. The paper overviews the status in medical metrology and challenge for health policy reform in China, and gives some suggestions to resolve medical metrology.
Biomedical Engineering ; statistics & numerical data ; Biometry ; China

Artificial bone replacement has made an important contribution to safeguard human health and improve the quality of life. The application requirements of rapid prototyping technology based on reverse engineering in individualized artificial bone with individual differences are particularly urgent. This paper reviewed the current research and applications of rapid prototyping and reverse engineering in artificial bone. The research developments and the outlook of bone kinematics and dynamics simulation are also introduced.
Biomedical Engineering ; Bone Substitutes ; Bone and Bones ; Humans

In this paper, the resorbable and degradable biomaterials often used in recent years are reviewed. These materials include natural and synthetical ones such as collagen, protein fiber, chitosan, polylactic acid (PLA), polyglycolic acid(PGA), polyanlydrides, etc.
Biocompatible Materials ; Biodegradation, Environmental ; Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering ; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures ; Surgery, Plastic

This paper introduces the present situation of clinical engineering in China and in the United States, and analyzes the gaps between them. Finally, from the staff's configuration and the work scope of clinical engineering, the developing trends and implementation strategies of China's clinical engineering are presented too.
Biomedical Engineering ; trends ; China ; United States

This paper introduces the background, definition and duties of the clinical engineering technicians in Japan and their education and examination systems.
Biomedical Engineering ; education ; standards ; Japan ; Licensure ; standards

The rapid development of bioeconomy urgently needs the support of biotechnology talents. Establishing an innovative training mode of biotechnology talents can provide support for regional economic development and industrial upgrading. Closely revolved around the concepts of new engineering disciplines development, such as serving the national strategy, docking industry, leading the future development and student-centered, a new economy-oriented training system was developed in School of Bioengineering of Dalian University of Technology. These systems include interdisciplinary curriculum system reconstruction, project-based teaching mode reform, evaluation system implementation and other aspects. The reform and exploration of the first-class biotechnology major under the new economic situation, puts forward the theory of value guidance, deep foundation, strong sense of innovation, technical and non-technical core ability literacy. This reform meets the industry demand for talent diversification, personalization, and dynamic change, helps the merge of industry and education, which provides a way for fostering first-class biotechnology-majored undergraduates.
Humans ; Biotechnology ; Bioengineering ; Biomedical Engineering ; Students ; Curriculum

As a strategic emerging industry of China, the biotechnology industry develops rapidly in recent years, which significantly increased the demand for creative and capable talents. As a core curriculum of bioengineering specialty, biotechnology equipment plays an important role in fostering such talents. To address the problems in biotechnology equipment course teaching such as limited equipment availability, limited engineering practice, and lack of learning motivations, curriculum reform and optimization were performed based on curriculum resource development, virtual reality-physical combined engineering training, and boosting learning motivations. The optimized teaching contents focus on fostering morality, intelligence, and creative practice abilities by connecting new requirements of social development, introducing new progress in biotechnology research, as well as new practices in research and development (R & D). Measures such as teaching methods innovation, assessment and evaluation methods optimization, cutting-edge R & D progress, diverse resources integration, and online-offline combined teaching, were developed to boost the learning motivation and foster the innovation competence of students. By above exploration and practice, the practice and innovation competence of students were significantly enhanced.
Humans ; Students ; Learning ; Curriculum ; Bioengineering ; Biomedical Engineering

In the "Tutorial for outline of the healthy China 2030 plan", biomedicine was listed as a key planning and development area. Shanghai government also lists biomedicine as an emerging pillar industry. The rapid development of biomedicine industry put higher requirement for talents. Taking the idea of cross integration, mutually beneficial development, inheritance and innovation, the School of Biotechnology of East China University of Science and Technology organically integrates bioengineering and pharmaceutical majors to develop a new undergraduate engineering program of biomedicine, which specially reforms the talent training practice from the aspects of developing a "trinity teaching" standard system, a "three integration, three convergence" curriculum system, and a "three comprehensive education" innovative talent training system. We put forward the trinity of "value guidance, knowledge system, technology and non-technical core competence literacy" to foster emerging biomedicine engineering talents, and developed a comprehensive innovative talents training mode featured by "covering class-in and class-out, covering every student, and covering ideology and curriculum". Moreover, we established effective connections between courses and training goals, between general education courses and professional courses, and between top-notch talent training systems and training programs. Based on the achievements of teaching reform of the emerging engineering program "intelligent bio-manufacturing", the experience we obtained may provide ideas for development of the first-class bioengineering major in China.
Bioengineering ; Biomedical Engineering ; China ; Curriculum ; Humans ; Students