Science article regards engineering as new medical frontier

Science magazine (April 2) -- Focus article for this special edition, co-written by BioE department head Rashid Bashir, notes that the inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that facilitates precision diagnostics and therapeutics to improve health care delivery for all. One option, a new engineering-based medical education paradigm is represented by the establishment of a college of medicine at Illinois in partnership with Carle Foundation Hospital, focused from the beginning on the intersection of engineering and medicine.