Electrical Engineering: Electrical engineering is a branch of engineering that is concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures, related to the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. Bioengineering is a branch of engineering that is concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures, related to the study and application of these technologies to biological systems. It is the application of the life sciences, mathematics and engineering principles to define and solve problems in biology, medicine, healthcare, and other fields.
Electrical Engineers have a wide range of focus and use in many of the different engineering fields ranging from biomedical engineering all the way to chemical and aerospace engineering. Bioengineers have a wide range of work also. They work on a number of different products such as, flexible artificial discs to replace damaged cervical discs, better aortic valve replacements or prosthetic limbs. These products represent only a few numbers of the items that biomedical engineers work on. These products are also produced and designed by help of various electrical engineering duties. For purposes of this research paper I will focus on a surgical robot called the daVanci surgical robot that both electrical and biomedical engineers team up to design.
The daVanci robots are surgical robots that allow doctors to perform surgical operations inside the patients with minimal external incisions. They feature a screen that the doctors look into and graspers that the doctors operate. The combinations of these movements moves the surgical arms and allows the doctors to operate the robot. Electrical Engineers are needed for the designing of these robots as the robots have a complex circuitry and wiring of electronics inside of them. The circuitry and each of the individual electronics in these robots must be mapped out and
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