MSc Medical Engineering at Nottingham Trent University

This MSc was developed to meet the needs of the healthcare sector and medical industry, identifying new medical product opportunities and running projects with industry, surgical and clinical partners. It takes a user-focused, multidisciplinary approach, with work involving NTU's Medical Technologies Innovation Facility and the Medical Engineering Design and Smart Wearable Technologies research groups. It is accredited by the IET until August 2029 and is taught at Clifton Campus.

Faculty: School of Science and Technology  |  Department: Engineering  |  Duration: One year full-time, or two years full-time with a placement  |  Intake: January 2027  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Covers design of medical and surgical products, medical imaging, fluid dynamics, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, smart materials in medical devices, bioinformatics, bionics and exoskeletons, and ethics, regulation and innovation in the medical sector. Listed modules include Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Medical Signal and Image Processing, and Fluid Dynamics in Physiology and Medical Devices, plus an individual industrial or engineering research project.

Career pathways

Graduates work as medical engineers, clinical engineers and research engineers with employers such as Avensis Medical, the NHS, Cytecom, ANGLE and Zeiss. A Professional Skills Training for Engineers programme covers maintenance and testing of acute medical devices used in NHS hospitals.

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