Bachelor (Honours)
At the University of Newcastle, we train engineers capable of solving the world's greatest challenges. As a Medical Engineer, you'll strive to make medical treatment more effective, efficient, safer and affordable, and will be uniquely placed to save and improve lives.
What is medical engineering? Medical engineering is a new and exciting discipline of engineering spanning medicine, biomedical science and engineering. Medical Engineering graduates take technology and create better solutions for health and wellbeing, seeking to improve human health through the development and design of equipment, devices, computer systems and software.
Students who study our medical engineering degree will learn to apply engineering principles and design processes to find innovative solutions to healthcare problems. They bring their creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem solving skills to developing and improving technology and human systems in medical settings. They need to have strong people skills and be particularly adept at working in interdisciplinary teams.
We offer the only medical engineering degree in NSW, so our graduates are uniquely placed to improve lives both locally and around the world.
Build critical medical and engineering skills by studying through courses in:
Medical engineers are involved with the design, development, testing and implementation of safe and effective technological solutions for the health and medicine industry. Depending on their area of specialisation, a medical engineer could work with:
Medical engineers work in hospitals and other medical institutions, health-related manufacturing and technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, and research organisations. Emerging technologies and engineering applications in the medical field, combined with an ageing population are leading to global growth in demand for biomedical engineers.