Biomedical Engineering: Emerging Health Care Technologies

Purpose of the track

The MSc education programme prepares the student for jobs and research in Biomedical Engineering. The graduates demonstrate advanced knowledge and engineering skills in application of electronics and computer science in biomedicine, technical support for remote delivery of medical services, materials science and tissues for medicine, biomechanics, modeling of biological structures and systems, medical imaging technologies. The skills include formulating engineering problems in the area of biomedicine, solving of such problems through modeling, designing, development and application of technologies with the use of information techniques support, information transmission and processing, leadership of development teams, innovation and creativity in ideas and implementation, decision making.

Track name justification

In biomedical engineering fast progress is based on the application of emerging technologies. The projects in leading technology research centers are particularly oriented for medical applications. These applications are commonly perceived as a most direct contribution of modern civilization to the quality of life. This approach is also justified from the medical point of view. Technologies widen the capacity of medical practice, ant thanks to the presence of highly specialized equipment almost every medical act has the engineering in background. The particular role of engineering in improvement of healthcare quality and accessibility manifests itself in Middle European countries in which the technological advancement was constrained for a long time and organizational foundation of the health care was very rigid. Nowadays, there is a particular need in unifying the efforts towards technological improvement in hospitals, hospices, distant health care and medical awareness of the citizens. The region-leading research centers, as the AGH University of Science and Technology, where the development of many biomedical engineering branches is widely recognized, has the opportunity to bear the responsibility of international integration of these efforts. They also should support the advancement of prospective young researchers with the perspective of their future academic or industrial career.

Job opportunities

The BME learning and research environment is highly internationally-oriented and the programme and its courses are in English. This enables easy access to our programme for foreign students. Our students may carry out part of the master’s programme at a university abroad. Currently the programme office is actively recruiting students from various European countries and from other continents. This will result in a more international composition of our Master student population. BME master’s students may study up to one semester at another selected university. With some universities (e.g. Prague, Lisbon, Grenoble, Twente, Magdeburgh etc.) we have an exchange contract or has good contacts within the biomedical research groups. The master’s programme offers several opportunities for adding an international dimension to the knowledge and the practical experience of a student. We believe that a stay abroad is a valuable component of the study. The master’s assignment abroad is still under the supervision of the professor of one of research chairs of the AGH UST and under the responsibility of the Master’s Diploma Commission.

For more information please contact:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
Professor Piotr Augustyniak
e-mail: august@agh.edu.pl