I am working in department of biomedical engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. In our department people are working in different groups (biomaterial engineering, biomechanical engineering, medical imaging, bioelectronics engineering, tissue engineering, bioinstrumentation engineering, biomedical signal processing, and …). We want to add a new group with the focus on neuroscience (please note that we work in an engineering & technology university and our works should not be pure medical). The current suggestion for the name of this new group is Neuro-Cognitive Engineering. However some of us think that there can be better names. Those members in our department who want to be involved in this new group have some different expertise: some are expert in computational neuroscience, some in artificial neural networks, and some in rehabilitation.
Can you please help me in answering the following questions?
1. Is “Neuro-Cognitive Engineering” meaningful? Is there any such thing anywhere else?
2. According to my explanations, can you propose a better name?
3. Are you agree with adding a new group? Some suggest doing such projects in other groups and not adding a new one. What can be the costs and benefits of adding a new group?
4. Some say that neuroscience will be the most important field in biomedical engineering in near future (or even now). Is that true?
5. What courses can be proper for students who want to study in this new group? I will appreciate if you introduce a department in which those courses are taught.
Thank you very much,
Sajad