Bachelor of Medical Engineering (Honours)

Become an engineer capable of solving the world’s greatest challenges

As a medical engineer, you’ll strive to make medical treatment more effective, efficient, safer and affordable. You will be uniquely placed to save and improve lives.

You’ll use your creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem-solving skills. Learn to apply engineering principles and design processes. Find innovative solutions to healthcare problems. As a graduate, you will develop and improve technology and human systems in medical settings.

What is medical engineering? Medical engineering is a new and exciting discipline. It spans topics like medicine, biomedical science and engineering. Bachelor of Medical Engineering graduates take technology and create better solutions for health and wellbeing. They seek to improve human health through the development and design of equipment, devices, computer systems and software.

Course overview

Become job-ready through our professional practice courses. You'll learn to tackle ‘wicked problems’ and develop essential workplace skills in finance, project management, sustainability, communication and entrepreneurial. Build critical medical and engineering skills by studying through courses in:

• analogue and digital electronics design
• programming and computing
• engineering design
• neurobiology
• human pathophysiology
• pharmacology

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), the highest educational award in New South Wales schools.

Applicants who do not speak English as a first language must demonstrate that they meet the University's English proficiency requirement. Further information regarding English language proficiency requirements can be found at the English Language Proficiency for Admission Policy.

In the application portal, you can enter the program you wish to study and upload relevant documents needed as part of your application. It is recommended you submit your application a minimum of 12 weeks before your intended semester of trimester start date.

There is a global growth in demand for biomedical engineers due to our ageing population. Emergent technologies and engineering applications are also increasing the demand. We offer the only medical engineering degree in NSW, so our graduates are uniquely placed to improve lives around the world.

Medical engineers can work in hospitals and other medical institutions. They may also work in health-related manufacturing and technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, or research organisations.

Depending on your area of specialisation, you could work with:

• biomechanical devices
• surgical equipment
• nanotechnology drug delivery systems and diagnostic tests
• prosthetic limbs
• artificial organs
• electrical and computing systems relating for radiotherapy, respiration or dialysis