What do bioengineers do?

I think bioengineers design and create products such as medicating stents, spine instrumentation, and artificial tissue that can improve the quality of people's lives. Bioengineers can build items that make medical treatment more effective. Also they have the ability to not just build, but also form a variety of pharmaceutical products. Bioengineers can help patients survive daily through innovations in science and technology.

But there are other things bioengineers do that do not directly involve tissue, stem cells, instrumentation, and medication. The other things may be more important even than what bioengineers have become known to be. A bioengineer's most valuable asset is his brain. This tool has been conditioned to view problems in a different way. The quantitative skills a bioengineer has enables problem solving to be applied to many different fields. A bioengineer does not have to work in a lab all day. Of course one can devote time to work on a specific problem pertaining to human health, such as spinal injury prevention in cars. Tissue engineering, biomechanics, pharmaceuticals are all areas that bioengineers can study and work in, but in either of those fields bioengineers always solve problems and think critically.