Advanced Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering is a fast evolving interdisciplinary field, which has been at the forefront of many medical advances in recent years. As such, it is a research-led discipline, which sits at the cutting edge of advances in medicine, engineering and applied biological sciences.

This MSc programme is designed to provide an advanced biomedical engineering education and to develop specialist understanding; the programme contains a large project component which allows you to develop advanced knowledge and research skills in a specialist area.

The programme also aims to develop a multidisciplinary understanding of the subject, which can be applied in a variety of clinical, biomedical and industrial settings. All subjects are taught by biomedical/medical engineers and clinical scientists. This allows you to gain the related skills and experience in healthcare science and technology, engineering principles and manufacturing, and management of various industry-standard medical devices.

We offer state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities for various projects and modules.
Cutting-edge research feeds directly into teaching and various student projects, ensuring your studies are innovative, current and focused with direct relation to related industries.

Our facilities include;
- Tissue characterisation laboratory

- Modern cell/tissue engineering laboratory

- State-of-the-art human movement laboratory

- Prosthetic/orthotic joint laboratory

- Human physiology laboratory

- World-class bioaerosol test facility for performing microbiological experiments.

- Electrostatics laboratory

- Medical Electronics Laboratory