Materials Engineering - Health Technology Materials

Master’s Degree program in Materials Engineering - Health Technology Materials offered by the University of Turku trains professionals in materials engineering with a particular focus on developing biomaterials to the needs of health technology applications.

In this Master’s program in Materials Engineering - Health Technology Materials specialisation track of the University of Turku, you will grow to be an expert in the field of biomaterials and learn to navigate the vast field of health technology and its applications.

What are biomaterials? How do the requirements to biomaterials in health technology change when used in various diagnostic, medical, or dental applications? How do medical instruments work and how biosignals are processed in the applications?

All of these questions are at the centre of the development of new biomaterials and health technology applications that are at the core of both the strategy of the University of Turku and the wide expertise cluster in health research in the Turku region.

Job options

The health sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Materials in health technologies cover a wide range of applications, including measuring, diagnostic and therapeutic devices. Applications vary from different laboratory equipment and point-of-care tools to wearable sensors and long-term implantable devices. Developing new materials and solutions in these areas contributes to personal health care technologies and preventive care and rehabilitation.

You will be equipped with skills that provide you with multiple career options. You will be able to join the industry in Finland or abroad or enter the public sector, for example, in various authoritative duties. Possible job titles are:

• validation and verification engineer,
• technology manager,
• regulatory affairs manager,
• development manager,
• researcher.

Career in research

The Master of Science degree completed in this program will qualify you for PhD studies in Turku, elsewhere in Finland or universities worldwide.

You will be eligible to apply for a position in the University of Turku Graduate School, UTUGS. The Graduate School consists of doctoral programs that cover all disciplines and doctoral candidates of the university.

Courses includes:

• Joint materials engineering studies

• Health technology materials studies

• Chemically reduced graphene oxide in electrochemical sensing for bioapplications

• Feasibility of SU-8 photoresist derived pyrolytic carbon for neurotransmitter measurement in biosensing applications

• Effect of substrate mechanical properties on neural cell mechanics

• Carbon nanomaterials interfacing with neurons - A literature review of in vitro studies