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Domain |
Engineers |
Doctors |
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Profession |
- Research, design, construct & maintain artificial structures for useful purposes
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Research, educate, diagnose & treat people for natural ailments as well as preventive measures
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Ultimate aim |
- To produce useful, safe & robust structures
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To meet all present & future medical needs of people
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Common target |
- Structures by people for people
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Prevention, education and treatment by people for people
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Conceptual aspects |
- Understand nature
- Understand people's needs
- Match nature with needs to produce needed structures
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Match nature of health with medical needs
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Nature |
- Thorough knowledge of materials (properties), structural behaviour & design-construct-maintain process
- Using analytical (assumed models) &/or experimental &/or practical research, design & experience
- Mainly mechanical & chemical origins
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Thorough knowledge of host (people), subject (ailment attributes, behaviour, history) & prevent-diagnose-treat process
Using analytical (assumed models) &/or experimental &/or practical research, design & experience
Mainly biomedical origins
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Overlap |
- Structures exist in all forms, whether physical or biological
- The principles & concepts of engineering are applicable to medicine when the physical & biological aspects of structures are the same
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At the turn of this century, the engineering trend is towards organic approach towards physical structures
In aspects of modeling (dynamic assumptions), materials (active smart technologies), techniques (adaptation) & construction (from labour to virtual knowledge & networking)
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Research |
- Repeatedly searching for new or improved engineering
- All major historical developments start from the invention or discovery of new materials
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Repeatedly searching for new threats, monitoring existing ones, new/improved treatment & prevention through education
Important developments stem from the invention or discovery of new medication & techniques
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Innovation |
- With the new materials, engineering properties are investigated, models constructed, design confidence & applications to structures
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With new discovery or invention, characteristics, history & attributes are investigated, combine with present knowledge, tests of subjects & hosts & medical uses
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Relations |
- Users: needs & budgets
- Capacities: technologies & expertise available
- Authorities: legislation, standards to be met
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Patients: discomfort, needs & sometimes budgets
Subjects: source of discomfort, sickness, aches or pain
Facilities: medication & expertise available
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Spirit |
- Excellence in engineering
- Serve the public for safety, robustness, enhancements & facilitation of activities
- To physical structures
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Excellence in medicine
Serve the public to promote health & fitness, prevent & reduce suffering
To biological structures
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