Our biomedical engineering courses cover artificial intelligence, digital health, electronic systems and mechatronics for health and medical devices. Medical engineering focuses on mechanical engineering aspects of healthcare technologies with an emphasis on user needs and interactions. Optional industry placements in healthcare engineering let you apply what you’ve learned and can be a springboard to an exciting career as a biomedical engineer or medical engineer.

 

You can apply now for many of our undergraduate courses in Clearing. Check our biomedical and medical engineering courses on this page, or explore our Clearing course vacancies page.

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Biomedical and medical engineering courses

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Adriana Wilde
Lecturer
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My research is on safe, inclusive, and secure digital technologies for health that empower people to live independently. I teach students the fundamentals needed to create these and the principles to design them for people’s needs
Alex Dickinson
Professor
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Developing medical devices needs close partnership between engineers, health care professionals and patients. My research and teaching involve working with these groups to improve prosthetic limb design
Zehor Belkhatir
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I fuse control system engineering with data analytics to identify patterns for precision medicine and to help identify biomarkers. In my teaching, I also combine fundamental theoretical concepts with hands-on application to show students how these can be applied to health

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