A new frontier of manufacturing research, biomedicai manufacturing, is presented. Ad-vanced manufacturing technologies, such as manufacturing processes, systems, and qual-ity control, can be readily applied to improve the safety, quality, cost, efficiency, and speed of healthcare service and biomedicai research. The analogy of the hospital as a factory is explored to broadly and inclusively define biomedicai manufacturing. Charac-teristics and engineering needs of biomedicai manufacturing are discussed. Examples of the grinding and cutting of plaque in interventional cardiology and laparoscopic surgery on minimizing the nerve tissue thermal damage in surgery are presented to demonstrate the broad spectrum of biomedicai manufacturing. On education, the scope and pedagogy for teaching a new senior undergraduate/first-year-graduate level course in Biomedicai Design and Manufacturing are discussed.
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