Prompt 9: Importance of Engineering

Written by: Callaghan TysonMayer

An article I found highlights the importance of engineers in medicine. This article, "Speeding Up Medical Research" by Nancy Giges, demonstrates how critical engineering technologies are for medical patients.
Dr. Melissa Knothe Tate invented a technology for imaging that focuses on human tissues, "in layman's terms, the Zeiss technology can do for the human body what Google Maps do in zooming from an earth view to a street view" (Giges). If you've never used Google Maps, just imagine looking at a picture of a globe and then looking at a picture of your backyard. This is a huge difference!
This advancement makes an incredible difference in the medical world, and it is only because of engineers like Knothe Tate that this growth in technology is possible. Without biomedical engineering, medicine would be nothing like how it is today.

Link: Giges, Nancy. "Speeding Up Medical Research." The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. N.p., Oct. 2015. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

Source: Giges, Nancy. "Speeding Up Medical Research." The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. N.p., Oct. 2015. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.