You have probably begun learning about equations and maybe even systems of equations in your math class. Equations are extremely important to engineering because they can be used to make mathematical models of the world around us. A special type of math equation, which you will probably learn about in high school, called differential equations, are used very commonly to model biological systems.
Math can also be used to summarize and make meaning out of a lot of information. Genomics, which is a part of my focus area within biomedical engineering, relies on math to do this with information from genes. Genes are like instructions that tell your body how to grow and what traits you will have (hair color, eye color etc). The human body has more than 20,000 genes, so you need math to make sense of all this information.
Chemistry and Biology
Speaking of genomics, how do we even get this information about our genes in the first place? Understanding biology and chemistry is important for understanding how we can get lots of data from your genes. DNA sequencing is the process of decoding the information that is contained in your DNA, which is the substance that makes up your genes. To do this, you need to understand the molecular structure of DNA and how it interacts with other molecules. In college, we got to learn about methods in nucleic acid sequencing and do labs where we got to sequence and analyze DNA. Since biomedical engineering is specifically the type of engineering that is focused on solving problems related to the human body, you can imagine how biology and chemistry would be relevant to the field in many other ways too.
Psychology, Sociology and Language
