What is Biomedical Engineering and its scope

This course aims at students who are interested in both medicine and engineering. This programme blends traditional engineering techniques with biological sciences to improve the quality of human health and focuses on understanding complex living systems and use of technology & systems to improve diagnosis and treatment. A Biomedical engineer can work in areas such as hospitals, government bodies, industry or academic areas, medical instrumentation and prostheses, medical product development and management and technology management in the hospital system.

Subjects of Biomedical Engineering:

Digital Electronics
Medical Physics
Microprocessors
Bioelectric phenomena
Power Electronics
Bioinstrumentation
Hospital Engineering
Biosignal Processing

Top recruiting industries:

Biomedical engineers can get a job in the fields like hospitals, manufacturing units of medical equipments, pharmaceuticals, biomedical research organisations. Some of the top recruiters in this field are:

Larsen & Toubro
BPL Healthcare
Wipro GE Medical System
Siemens
Cipla
Electrocare System & Services Pvt. Ltd.
P.K.Morgan (India) Pvt.Ltd.
Medtronics- Medico Health Care System
TransAsia Biomedical Ltd.
Philips Electronics Ltd.- Medical Division
Carl Zeiss India Pte. Ltd.
B.Braun Medical (India) Ltd.

Further career:

Students who have completed their B.Tech degree in Biomedical Engineering can either opt for job or they can go for further studies. Students can enroll themselves for ME or M.Tech degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Designations:

A student who has completed a B.Tech in Agriculture Engineering degree can get either of these designations-