Bioengineering fundamentals

This textbook introduces bioengineering through the conservation principles that underpin all of engineering: mass, energy, charge, and momentum. Its approach blends several disciplines and stresses practical problem solving, so beginners can see how the field draws on engineering, chemistry, and physics together.

The author shows how these balance laws apply to living and medical systems. Accounting and conservation equations are used to derive familiar results, including Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws, Newton's laws of motion, and Bernoulli's equation. The aim is to help readers build a coherent mental model of how the core concepts connect.

Numerous worked examples cover the range of modern bioengineering, from physiology and biochemistry to tissue engineering, biotechnology, and instrumentation. The book is intended for anyone who wants to learn about bioengineering.