Chairman's Message

Technological innovation in the field of medicine and health care is accelerating at enormous pace. The modern hospital is now the centre of a technologically sophisticated healthcare system; and this requires technologically articulate staff. Engineering professionals have become intimately involved in many aspects of medicine, and the discipline of "Biomedical engineering" has become firmly established as integration between two disciplines of Medicine and Electronic Engineering.

Biomedical engineering uses engineering principles to understand, modify to control biological systems. It is an interdisciplinary and applied branch of electronic engineering, which also requires a working knowledge such as physiology, anatomy and biological sciences.

The world market for all biomedical devices, including diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, $100 billion/year. It is destined to grow even further, especially in areas that have aging populations. Biomedical engineers will be of increasing importance to this growth. Higher Education Commission approved an amount of Rs. 31.8 (m) to establish Biomedical Engineering Laboratories in the department under the scheme and, state-of-the art Biomedical Engineering Laboratories have been established in the department.

The objective of this program, therefore, is to produce Biomedical Engineers of international standards. This can best be achieved by training students at two universities. Thus collaboration between Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and Liaquat Medical University of Medical & Health Sciences has been established.

I would like to express gratitude to all faculty members in general and senior faculty members and experts in particular for their valuable suggestions in developing curriculum and laboratories for making this program successful.