Biomedical Engineering

Within the Biomedical Engineering MSc program from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) every newly-acquired insight into the human body and into particular diseases brings forth both opportunities and challenges throughout the full range of medical disciplines.

As a biomedical engineer you work on the captivating cutting edge of medical science and technology. You could be involved with engineering a tissue, the latest imaging techniques and image analysis through artificial intelligence (AI) or steering the human body at a molecular level. These are but a few examples drawn from the broad and complex area of expertise known as biomedical engineering. Irrespective of your area of expertise, one key element is indispensable in the current medical environment: biomedical engineering.

The Biomedical Engineering MSc program from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) key facts:

• We all want to age healthily. To make this happen, it is crucial that the diagnosis and treatment of disease improves. The biomedical engineer, as a technical specialist, plays an important role in researching solutions to both of these imperatives. From a molecular and cellular perspective as well as at tissue and body scale, an increasing number of options is becoming available.
• Biomedical engineers thrive to find technically superior solutions within their chosen specialization, keeping in mind the societal implications of these solutions and of biomedical engineering in general.

Career opportunities:

• With your way of thinking and your skills, you have the perfect background to find a job as (bio)medical engineer. People in the world are getting older and older. This increases the demand for innovative biomedical solutions. Expectations are that the demand for biomedical engineers will stay in the job market.
• After acquiring a Master's degree Biomedical Engineering program from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), there is a broad perspective in job offers. Besides becoming a researcher, you could for example become a developer, project manager, teacher, consultant or business developer.
• Graduates can work among others at universities, in hospitals, in pharmaceutical companies or engineering companies.

Courses included:

• Soft Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology;
• Modelling in Mechanobiology;
• Immunoengineering;
• Biointerface Science of Regenerative Medicine;
• Orthopedic Biomechanics;
• Cardiovascular Biomechanics;
• Ultrasound Imaging;
• Medical Image Analysis;
• Computational Biology;