Engineering profession and its applications in biomedicine, introductory lectures on the definition of biomedical engineering, its history, ethics and regulations with a scientific overview of the different topics : biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, medical imaging and physiological modeling, biomedical sensors and biomedical signal processing and biomicro and nanotechnology, Simultaneously the students will be instructed on principles of technical writing and will be asked to apply their knowledge on a group project about which they will be required to write a report and give an oral presentation.