BACHELOR OF
MEDICAL ENGINEERING (HONOURS)
WHAT WILL YOUR NEW BE? BEC UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT | ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS
WHY MEDICAL ENGINEERING? New takes technology and creates better solutions for health. It brings creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem-solving skills to develop and improve technology and human systems in medical settings. With a Medical Engineering degree, you’ll apply engineering principles and design processes to find innovative solutions to healthcare problems. At the University of Newcastle, we train engineers 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. Discover a new that is uniquely placed to save and improve lives around the world.
FLEXIBLE LEARNING You’ll also be able to diversify your skills with an elective pathway - a cluster of courses that can be used to: • deepen your technical competence in your engineering/ health field • broaden your expertise in another area of engineering • specialise your skills in areas outside engineering, such as business or communications • study overseas at one of our many partner institutions
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
• human pathophysiology
• pharmacology
All UON engineering students must complete 12-weeks of professional practice during their degree. Through your work placement you’ll build important professional networks and put your learning into practice.
• analog and digital communications
• electrical engineering design
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
• programming and computing
• neurobiology
Depending on your area of specialisation, you could work with:
WHAT YOU WILL STUDY Build critical medical and engineering skills through courses in:
• Biomechanical devices
• Artificial organs
Choose one of the following majors:
• Surgical equipment
• Medical Biomechanics
• Medical Devices
• Medical Computing
• Medical Signal Analysis
• Nanotechnology drugs and tests
• Electrical and computing systems for radiotherapy, respiration or dialysis
• Prosthetic limbs
3%
graduate employment rate1
TOP 10
in world for Automation and Control Engineering2
ATAR
Cut-off 80.00*
DURATION
4 yrs Ft / 10 yrs PT
LOCATION
Newcastle - Callaghan
UAC CODE
Refer to UAC
Estimate only
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No.1
job family on the rise (Engineering)3
TOP 150
in world for Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmacology4
ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE
Mathematics (Band 5 or above). One or more science-related subject (Biology, Physics or Chemistry preferred)
RECOMMENDED STUDIES
Mathematics Extension 1
“ The system is designed to improve the workflow of the radiologists in giving the report to the patient. In the end, I like to solve problems and I like to build things. I want to see what I have built work and get used.” DR KENNY HONG, ENGINEER | HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS DEVELOPER
NEW DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN, IT NEEDS THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO CHASE IT. MAYBE THAT’S YOU? For full information and to find out how to apply, visit newcastle.edu.au/degrees UON 2017/1219 | CRICOS Provider 00109J 1 Quality Indicators of Learning and Teaching 2016 2Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017 3World Economic Forum 2016 4QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017