Engineering plays as much a part in modern healthcare systems as pharmaceutical drugs, although few people are aware of it. Every year millions of radiographs are taken of fractured bones; thousands of artificial hips and knees are implanted; and countless lives are saved through mechanical ventilation, and yet the massive contribution that engineering makes towards the diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients goes largely unrecognized.
The fact is however, that engineering in its various guises runs through the health service like writing through a stick of rock and engineering is responsible for many of the medical advances which we now take for granted. Prosthetic hip/knee joints, clinical biomechanics analysing normal and abnormal human movements, tissue/cell engineering for replacing diseased or injured organs, e.g. skin, cartilage and bone, clinical signals, genomic coding, medical devices for diagnostics and treatment such as pacemakers, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT scanning), electrocardiography (ECG), and image guided surgery are just a few of the technologies that have revolutionized modern medicine and changed the lives of many for the better.
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Final Year Projects for the BEng and MEng in Medical Engineering and BSc in Clinical Technology
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Career Prospects in Medical Healthcare
Health authorities in the UK are among the largest employers in Europe and are supported by a large and diverse industrial sector supplying diagnostic and monitoring equipment, orthopaedic devices and artificial organs. The mix of professional engineering and healthrelated skills acquired will enable you to pursue a wide choice of careers in this dynamic and growing sector.
Against The Grain: 'Without X-rays, we'd be back in the Dark Ages'
Clive Beggs is professor of medical technology at the University of Bradford. He argues that medical engineering's life-saving contribution to healthcare is being largely ignored, and that the discipline is suffering as a result.
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A tissue characterisation laboratory, incorporating an atomic force microscopy (AFM) suite, which enables the nano- and microstructure of animal/human tissue and other biomaterials to be characterised in great detail. This facility enables the physical and biological performance characteristics of tissue to be better understood.
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