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Biomedical Engineering

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What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering was created to meet a specific need in the job market for professionals with strong interdisciplinary skills in the fields of materials engineering, biomechanics, hardware and software technologies, bioscience and medicine and who had at the same time, organized skills on materials and devices for biomedical use (mechanical, electronic, robotic), as well as on the testing and maintenance of equipment used in healthcare facilities.

The training course of the Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering is organized in such a way as to provide students with solid training in the field of engineering methodologies and technologies, applied to medical-biological problems.

In this way it is possible to train professional figures with technical-biological skills, provided thanks to the integration of knowledge of industrial engineering, information engineering, and medical-biological skills.

If in the first part of the training course the essential elements of Engineering studies are provided, they have a characterizing connotation already in the second year, and then give students the opportunity to specialize, in the following two years, in one of the two different curricula, Bioengineering and Technologies Applied to Medicine, acquiring knowledge and exploring application themes typical of Biomedical Engineering.

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What do you learn?

The biomedical engineer will have solid basic training in engineering disciplines, supported by knowledge relating to:

  • The main properties and characteristics of biomaterials and the nature of the interactions between them and biological tissues, in order to design artificial systems for the functional recovery of the tissue or organ to be replaced, integrated or rehabilitated;
  • The ability to process and analyze signals, images and medical-biological data, to apply electronic circuit design techniques, methodological tools and quantitative methods for the study of physiological systems, through integrated knowledge of electronics, robotics and mechatronics;
  • Multi-omics, information technology, sensing, modeling, biomechanical technologies, and related to the analysis and processing of signals and images to support all clinical pathways;
  • Technologies based on artificial intelligence both in the research field in achieving diagnostic and therapeutic objectives in the context of precision medicine.
They will also have adequate basic skills in mathematics, chemistry, physics and biomechanics and will be able to use the methodological and calculation tools necessary for the description of the transport phenomena of fluids and substances in the biomedical field.

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What can you do with it?

The main employment opportunities for a graduate in Biomedical Engineering are the following:

  • Industries in the biomedical and pharmaceutical sector producing and supplying systems, equipment and materials for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation;
  • Public and private hospitals;
  • Service companies for the management of medical and telemedicine equipment and systems;
  • Specialized laboratories.
The Bachelor's Degree in biomedical engineering allows direct access to the master's degree in biomedical engineering, but also, subject to possession of the CFU relating to the characterizing subjects, also to other master's degree courses in industrial engineering.