Biomedical Engineering

What Dublin City University says about their program:

This degree has been designed in consultation with the healthcare industry and medical community, ensuring you’ll receive an education that’s up to speed with current developments. Traditionally, medical device companies have recruited from fields like mechanical and electronic engineering, and then provided additional training in bioengineering, but DCU’s Biomedical Engineering integrates the necessary aspects of biology and medicine with the technical engineering aspects required to engineer medical devices. The range and sophistication of medical devices needed to apply treatment and fight disease is growing in response to rapidly evolving disease treatments. From cameras that explore blood vessels to scanners that analyse the entire human body, biomedical engineering expertise is in greater demand than ever before. In Year One of this course, you’ll cover the fundamentals of mathematics, physics, engineering and computing. A major group project involves the design and building of a radio-controlled device. The design-related modules are continued from Year One and further developed in Year Two, as they’re of primary importance in linking the disciplines of engineering and healthcare. In your second year, you’ll cover a combination of mechanical engineering, biological and bioengineering subjects. Year Three will see you learning to develop products in accordance with the relevant regulatory requirements of the medical device industry and join other DCU mechanical engineering students in a design competition. This is then followed by your six-month INTRA placement, generally in a medical device company. This period of industrial training will provide you with an insight into the structure and functioning of healthcare companies, and will be invaluable in your future career. In Year Four, you’ll learn about advanced technologies in the fields of rehabilitation engineering, biomaterials, computer vision and surgical device technology, and how to apply sophisticated computer modelling software in the design process. Your fourth-year project will allow you to work on a substantial design or research project in an area related to biomedical engineering.

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