Biomedical engineers are an important part of the medical community. The knowledge, inventions, and people that are behind many biomedical engineering jobs are responsible for improving lives across the globe by creating new theories on life systems or designing medical instruments.
The contributions made by those employed in biomedical engineering jobs are countless: minuscule devices to inhibit cell growth; artificial bones, tendons, and discs; highly sensitive monitors and medical imaging systems; artificial hearts; synthetic blood; medical robotics; and tissue engineering – to name just a few.
Acoustic wave devices have been in commercial use for more than 60 years. The telecommunications industry is the largest consumer, accounting for ~3 billion acoustic wave filters annually, primarily in mobile cell phones and base stations.
These are typically surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, and act as bandpass filters in both the radio frequency and intermediate frequency sections of the transceiver electronics. Several of the emerging applications for acoustic wave devices as sensors may eventually equal the demand of the telecommunications market.