Customer Reviews

Fundamentals of BioMEMS and Medical Microdevices

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I purchased the book in order to take the BioMEMs class offered by the University of Minnesota and taught by the author, Dr.Saliterman. As a Biomedical Engineer, it provided a very realistic and complete view on the engineering applications of the medical field in relation to medicine. Although not overly deep, the book is very well written and allows for easy understanding of the material. I found that the reaches of engineering can be extended to many devices and fields with encouraging results.

I thought that the book was a highly informative, interesting, and educational read that I will be keeping with me through medical school.

I bought this book for my work in order to get a better understanding of the bio side of MEMS. Having a physics background, it is sometimes difficult to understand the needs of the medical and life sciences with respect to MEMS devices.

I think the book is very complete, it tries to incorporate all aspects of biomems, but everything is touched on only shortly. The book tries to be readable for both MEMS fabrication engineers (me) and for the medical field. But I feel that it failed in doing so by not elaborating enough. It is a steep learning curve for people with no background in chemistry.

On the other hand, it will probably find it's way on the shelve of many medical microdevice designers as it is very extensive and because of its completeness, gets 4 stars from me.