Biomedical Engineering
Degrees: BEng, MEng
Biomedical Engineering lies at the heart of many of the dramatic advances that we have seen in hospitals, whether this be in disease diagnosis, spinal injury repair, corrective surgery in our vital organs (such as the eye and heart) or, more routinely, in joint replacements.
For example, one of the specialist activities of the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the local hospitals, is the rehabilitation of paraplegics combining mechanical engineering to develop the loading systems with control theory to activate the patient’s muscles.
Thus within the field of Biomedical Engineering many engineering skills and expertise are required in parallel with a knowledge and understanding of the biomedical and medical sciences.