昆士兰科技大学

Medical engineers work with doctors and medical scientists to design, manufacture and maintain medical equipment to improve health care and medical services. The discipline applies engineering and scientific methods to find solutions to problems in medicine and the life sciences.

Medical engineering integrates engineering principles with human physiology to design, manufacture, install, monitor and maintain medical and surgical equipment. Medical engineers are responsible for the safe and effective operation of equipment such as monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment ranging from CT scanners to kidney dialysis machines.

Explore your options

Your engineering degree features common units in the first year that combine broad foundation principles with a wide range of major choices, giving you flexibility and options before you choose your career specialisation.

During this degree you'll undertake professional experience and other hands-on activities such as hospital and industry site visits. There is also the possibility of involvement in industry-based projects, overseas study, work opportunities and ground-breaking research through the QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and the QUT Medical Engineering Research Facility.

Our engineering courses, whether a single or double degree, now include honours-level content integrated throughout the course. A bachelor honours degree is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor degree, and along with the advanced knowledge and skills, it will benefit you in your professional career or future research and study. The duration of the degree remains unchanged: a single engineering honours degree is a four-year program, and a double degree is five years.

Highlights

• Learn to design, manufacture and maintain medical and surgical equipment.
• Combine physical, chemical, mathematical and computer sciences with engineering principles to study human biology and the use of technology to improve health quality.
• Study biofluids, biomaterials, human physiology, modelling and simulation, and instrumentation and control.
• Opportunities for overseas study and work.
• Graduate with an internationally recognised qualification.

Possible careers

• Biomechanical Engineer
• Biomedical Engineer
• Medical Engineer
• Medical Equipment Sales