MEDICAL ENGINEERING

Medical Engineering encompasses a broad range of activities, and is alternatively called Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering.

It is a multi - disciplinary subject integrating professional engineering activities with a basic medical knowledge of the human body and an understanding of how it functions when healthy, diseased or injured.

Many of the advances in this field now seem commonplace - hip replacements, pacemakers, medical imaging,life support systems and medical lasers are just a few examples of the results of the work of Medical Engineers.

Medical Engineers are needed for the healthcare industry, the world's biggest industrial sector .