ABSTRACT
Clinical rehabilitation engineering (RE) may be considered a subspecialty of biomedical engineering. The three types of biomedical engineer are (1) the clinical engineer in healthcare, (2) the biomedical design engineer in industry, and (3) the research scientist. Clinical rehabilitation engineering parallels this model, in which we have (1) the CRE in direct service delivery (e.g., rehabilitation, vocation, and education) settings, (2) the design and development engineer in the rehabilitation technology and assistive technology (AT) industries, and (3) the research CRE or scientist working in rehabilitation technology and AT research.
