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Engineering (Biomedical)

Biomedical engineering involves using electronics and computer systems to improve health care and health services to enhance the quality of human life.

Where can our graduates go?

Graduates often work in multi-disciplinary teams with health professionals and medical specialists in hospitals and public and private sector organisations.  They use their professional skills and knoweldge in the systematic development of complex digital and analog electronic systems with particular emphasis on biomedical systems.

Potential Occupations

Potential Employers

  • Biomedical Engineer
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Clinical Support Specialist Consultant
  • Customer Support Engineer
  • Engineer
  • Field Service Engineer - Pathology
  • Graduate Biomedical Engineer
  • Graduate Engineer
  • Instrumentation Engineer
  • Medical Device Assessor
  • Patent Examiner
  • Research Biomedical Engineer
  • Specialist - Product Educator/Biomedical
  • Agilent Technologies
  • Australian Surgical Design & Manufacture (ASDM)
  • Chemtronics Biomedical Australia
  • Cochlear
  • CSIRO
  • DePuy
  • DSTO
  • Epworth Healthcare
  • Electro Medical Group
  • Flinders Medical Centre
  • Helicon Technology
  • Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS)
  • IP Australia
  • Polartechnics
  • Repatriation General Hospital
  • Royal Adelaide Hospital
  • Signostics Limited
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

 

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