香港理工大学

Aims and Characteristics

Biomedical engineering is recognized around the world as one of the fastest growing areas of innovation. It covers a wide spectrum of applications such as devices that are used by health professionals in their diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative practices; implants that are placed in patients for their health maintenance; prostheses, orthoses and assistive devices that are used by people with special needs to facilitate their daily activities; and healthcare products and exercise equipment for general health promotion.

This developing global field requires professionals who understand both the health issues that motivate these technologies and the engineering solutions that they offer. It needs individuals with a solid foundation in both health sciences and engineering technologies.

Our BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Engineering programme prepares students for such a challenging career. They have opportunities to take subjects in both life sciences and engineering, and to integrate these concepts in interdisciplinary applications to improve human health.

In addition to building on foundation knowledge through classes on campus, students also obtain practical learning through the industrial internship/clinical attachment (280 hours industrial internship for BME stream student and 560 hours clinical attachment for BME with P&O stream student). These internships/attachments offer good opportunities for students to put what they have learned into practice and accumulate work experience for their future careers. Internships/attachments take place in industries and hospitals, and some of our students can have overseas placements (eg. Canada, China, Czech Republic, Japan, Singapore, UK and USA).

Recognition and Prospects

Professional Recognition

The programme has been granted full accreditation by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).

Students who complete the prosthetics or orthotics subjects offered in the programme are eligible to sit for the certification examination of the Hong Kong Society of Certified Prosthetist-Orthotists (HKSCPO). This programme has been accredited by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) as a Category I professional programme.

Career Prospects

Professional Engineering Practice

Working in medical device industrial settings, hospitals, the government, medical device regulatory firms, or other biomedical institutions, graduates apply their knowledge in biomedical engineering. This includes clinical engineering, entrepreneurship, quality assurance and regulatory affairs, sales and marketing, and service engineering.

Professional Clinical Practice

Graduates work in hospitals and healthcare sectors, including prosthetists and orthotists, clinical and rehabilitation engineers and hospital scientific officers, and in healthcare product customer services.

Basic and Applied Research in Engineering, Biology, or Medicine

Graduates can conduct basic and applied research in university, hospital and industry.