Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering is an area of life sciences that combines engineering techniques with biology and finds extensive application in the healthcare sector. It is an interdisciplinary field that cuts across medicine, health, biology, and traditional engineering fields. Biomedical engineers or BMEs, as they are called, work to design, create and improve medical devices such as prosthetics, artificial organs, MRI machines along with the microscopic machines used in surgery.

Skills

• Keen interest in science, engineering and medicine
• Attention to detail
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Critical thinking and problem solving abilities

Areas of Opportunity

Research
Bioinstrumentation
Medical imaging
Pharmaceutical companies
Biomechanics
Artificial intelligence
Teaching

Institutions

1. Indian Institute of Technology (Hyderabad, Kanpur)
2. National Institute of Technology, Raipur
3. BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
4. Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru
5. M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
6. Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Davanagere
7. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
8. Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore campus
9. SRM University, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
10. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore