生物医学工程（Biomedical engineering）是个交叉学科，与生物工程密切相关，其主要特点是将工程学的方法应用到医学领域中。它将工程技术与医学相结合以提高医疗水平，帮助患者得到更好的照料以及提高健康个体的生活质量。医学工程师工作的主要工作涵盖一个非常宽广的领域，包含：医用仪表、生物信息学、医学影像、影像处理、生理信号处理、生物力学、生物输送、生物材料、系统分析、三维建模、奈米生物医学等等。生物医学工程的应用实例有生物兼容的假体、医疗器械、诊断设备以及医用药品、辅具等。

Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g. diagnostic or therapeutic). This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine, combining the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to advance health care treatment, including diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. Biomedical engineering has only recently emerged as its own study, compared to many other engineering fields. Such an evolution is common as a new field transitions from being an interdisciplinary specialization among already-established fields, to being considered a field in itself. Much of the work in biomedical engineering consists of research and development, spanning a broad array of subfields (see below). Prominent biomedical engineering applications include the development of biocompatible prostheses, various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants, common imaging equipment such as MRIs and EEGs, regenerative tissue growth, pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic biologicals.