What do biomedical engineers do? Learn how they combine their knowledge of biology and medicine with engineering principles and practices to develop devices and procedures that solve medical and health-related problems.

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Rebecca Richards-Kortum sees the engineer in everyone. It’s one way this Rice University professor of bioengineering helps undergraduates in many disciplines create solutions to global health problems.

She leads a program called Beyond Traditional Borders, which allows students to tackle specific challenges faced by health care providers in developing countries.

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Amateur and pro athletes turn to engineers to analyze their every move.

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It may sound like science fiction, but this is the real deal: Yoky Matsuoka is figuring out how to make robotic arms that can be guided by the human brain.

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Bionic limbs give wounded soldiers a leg up.

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