The ASEE reported in October that Biomedical Engineering is the now the fastest growing discipline at all degree granting levels of any engineering discipline - and the current rapid growth pace is expected to continue.
Here's a link to a great feature article describing the reasons behind the growth, the challenges that educators face while trying to pack concepts from biology, physiology, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and more into a typical 4-year undergraduate degree program, and how they are adapting to improve the curriculum.
Of course, National Instruments' products and LabVIEW in particular are playing an important role in the dealing with some of these challenges by making it possible to teach measurement and instrumentation concepts, circuits, signal processing, control, and even physiology (with the optional Vernier BioSensor Kit for ELVIS) - all with the same hardware and software platforms. Critically, these same tools can take the student from the lab to a more open-ended design project, allowing him/her to actually "do engineering". This is why we all studied to become engineers in the first place, right?
Maynimation
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Check out How-to documents for the new LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit
ZJ.Gu
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Announcing the LabVIEW 2012 Biomedical Toolkit
Sundar...
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New LabVIEW drivers for low-cost EEG headsets
Coq_Rouge
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The NI licence policy exclude the "Touch Panel Module" from use in the medical segment
