文档介绍：ETHICS AND EDUCATION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Cecilia Collins (******@)
The Grand Challenges
There are countless technologies that we take for granted in this world. Since the beginning of mankind, humans have been striving to improve our quality of life and further human knowledge. How far we e would be prehensible to people even one hundred years ago, much less those people who built the pyramids using pure physical strength and innovations that now seem primitive. However there are many problems that we still face today in protecting human beings from both technologies that we ourselves have created and, just like thousands of years ago, from the forces of nature. The National Academy of Engineering decided to identify the biggest problems that our generation of engineers would face in ing century. These 14 challenges have been officially christened the Grand Challenges for Engineering.
Reverse Engineering the Brain
One of the 14 Grand Challenges is reverse engineering the brain. Engineers believe that by increasing our knowledge of the brain we can begin to imitate it in manmade technologies. The opportunities are infinite for what we can do with this sort of knowledge. One technology that has been developing in the past few decades is neural prostheses. One particular type of neural prosthetic called a cochlear implant has been introduced in recent years. Coc