Bioengineering is attracting many high quality students. This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them.

Engineering is invention and designing things that do not exist in nature for the benefit of humanity. Invention can be taught by making inventive thinking a conscious part of our daily life. This is the approach taken by the authors of this book. Each author discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments...

This text is a collection of papers, contributed by Y.-C. Fung, Chairman of the World Committee on Biomechanics, on the development of biomechanics since the mid-1960s. In a survey and autobiographical articles, he describes a personal perspective of the history of biomechanics.