Introduction:

Working with our Medical Engineering Design Research Group gives a multi-disciplinary approach to design and engineering.

We will be seeking accreditation from the IET for this course.

• Top 20 in the UK for General Engineering (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)
• In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) - the UK's system for assessing the quality and impact of research in universities - we’re proud that 98% of NTU's Engineering submission was assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent.

Careers and employability

Mentoring and support

All students will be allocated a personal tutor throughout their study to provide pastoral support. Each module will allow students to engage with specialist lecturers via seminars and project work, allowing them to explore knowledge they are applying to assignments and topical discussion points.

All staff teaching on the programme are members of professional institutions, and most are active researchers, with many undertaking industrial consultancy.

Our commercial, surgical and clinical partners will also be available to support student projects and other student-specific requirements.

Your future

You will graduate with a broad range of skills applicable to medical engineering and design. These include (but will not be limited to):

• concepts behind medical imaging techniques and good practice in image acquisition and processing
• understanding of new (smart) materials for improving the functionality
• cost and/or sustainability of medical devices and prosthetics
• understanding of the impact of prosthetics or medical implants on the body’s metabolism.

You will also gain an understanding of the implementation of medical engineering in industry and academia, intellectual property, medical ethics and regulations, business principles and commercialisation.

The course is ideal preparation for roles in the design, application or regulation of medical devices within specialist design consultancies or medical device companies.

The multi-disciplinary nature of this course means you can acquire advanced engineering design, technological, materials and design skills to enhance your potential to become a leading medical design engineer, technologist, or medical product designer.

You may also wish to progress onto further study at PhD level.

Placement

NTU is one of the most employment-focused universities. Increasingly, employers want to recruit graduates who have real-world work experience. That’s why all of our courses, across every subject area, offer you a work experience opportunity. Our experts help build and support your future with various career programmes and events.

This course allows you to take a one-year (sandwich) placement. With placement, the course will total two years of full-time study.

The school of Science and Technology will work closely with you to help you find a placement and strengthen your CV and interview techniques. During the placement year, an academic staff member will visit to check your progress and offer advice. On completion of the placement year, students will submit a placement report and continue back at NTU for three months, during which time they will complete their research project.

What you’ll study

You will work in groups during lab exercises for some of the modules and on individual projects, especially during the individual industrial or engineering research project. You can work on (live) projects during all modules as part of training and formative assessment. Below is an overview of the areas you will cover.

• Design of medical and surgical products, tools and apparatus to improve the lives of patients and the workflow of medical professionals.
• Introduction to various tools and techniques applicable to the field, including medical imaging, fluid dynamics prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics.
• Application of intelligent materials in medical products, including prosthetics, medical devices and advanced medical coatings.
• Explore recent developments in bioinformatics, gene therapeutics, bionics, prosthesis, assistive robotics and exoskeletons.
• Understand the requirements for ethics, regulation and innovation in the medical sector.

Modules

• Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
• Fluid Dynamics in Physiology and Medical Devices
• Medical Applications of Smart Materials
• Medical Imaging
• Current Developments in Biomedical Engineering
• Research Methods
• Individual Industrial or Research Project

* Scholarships available for international students.