Medical Engineering MSc

Introduction:

This course has been developed to meet the needs of the healthcare sector and the medical industry in the UK and internationally. It is specifically designed to increase the employability of its graduates in an engineering and technological context by identifying new medical product opportunities and by conducting projects in collaboration with a range of relevant partners.

Medical Engineering is user-focused, taking a multidisciplinary approach and building on solid relationships with industry and the health sector. The course aims to provide you with live engineering and design experience and the tools to drive forward process, material and critical thinking in the commercial world.

You will benefit from the internationally recognised research activities in the engineering subject area, which grants from various funding organisations have supported. The engineering team has been involved with numerous international collaborative projects and closely works with industry and the healthcare sector on other research and development schemes.

You will get the direct industrial experience of the newest developments in the field through collaboration with NTU's Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF), start-up companies, the Medical Engineering Design team, and the SWIFT research group.

Work with the surgical and clinical community on live project briefs as part of a substantial existing network between NTU and our relevant partners. These links and others we have in the medical industry mean that you could collaborate and undertake a project with them.

Your future

You will graduate with a broad range of skills applicable to medical engineering and design. These include (but will not be limited to):

• concepts behind medical imaging techniques and good practice in image acquisition and processing
• understanding of new (smart) materials for improving the functionality
• cost and/or sustainability of medical devices and prosthetics
• understanding of the impact of prosthetics or medical implants on the body’s metabolism.

You will also gain an understanding of the implementation of medical engineering in industry and academia, intellectual property, medical ethics and regulations, business principles and commercialisation.

The course is ideal preparation for roles in the design, application or regulation of medical devices within specialist design consultancies or medical device companies.

The multi-disciplinary nature of this course means you can acquire advanced engineering design, technological, materials and design skills to enhance your potential to become a leading medical design engineer, technologist, or medical product designer.

You may also wish to progress onto further study at PhD level.