Biomedical Engineering involves the application of traditional engineering principles to healthcare and medicine. We can think of the brain and nervous system as a large communication system, which coordinates and transmits signals around the body, and the organs and limbs as sophisticated engineering systems that control functions such as movement, respiration and blood flow. UCD Biomedical Engineers are educated with a strong foundation in electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering, which is complemented by an understanding of physiology and anatomy.

 

This foundation is applied to problems in medicine and healthcare in specialised, interdisciplinary modules such as Biomechanics, Medical Device Design, Neural Engineering, Rehabilitation Engineering, Cell Culture & Tissue Engineering, Biosensors, Biomedical Signal Processing and Machine Learning. If you are interested in developing new medical techniques, systems and devices, and you want to be involved in the breakthroughs that are improving the healthcare system for doctors and patients every day, then this is the course for you.