Medical Electronics prepares you for high-tech healthcare industry

Updated on: Monday, June 14, 2010

Medical Electronics is an interdisciplinary field of study, which is based on skills and knowledge from various scientific, engineering and clinical disciplines for Healthcare applications. The Healthcare industry is a major and developing contributor to the world economy and there is a subsequent need for high quality engineering graduates. The aim of engineers specialising in medical electronics is to apply their knowledge and skills towards the development of medical diagnostic and monitoring systems that will help health-care professionals to deliver the best medical care to their patients. The overall aim of the programme is to produce suitably qualified medical electronics engineers with a solid understanding of bioelectronics (including instrumentation, biomaterials, medical device design). Such engineers will be well poised for careers across a wide sector of high tech industries, in particular in the rapidly expanding medical electronics sector.

In short, medical electronics deals with the application of electronics in the field of medical science. The research and development work of medical electronics engineers lead to the manufacture of modern, sophisticated diagnostic medical equipment. Graduates in medical electronics could get jobs in companies manufacturing and marketing medical equipment

Graduates in medical electronics find careers in clinical engineering departments within the NHS as well as within industrial companies’ that specialise in the design and development of medical instrumentation. These graduates are also qualified for careers in other electronic industries and IT industries as well as in many other health care related areas

B.Tech in Medical Electronics is offered in Erode Sengunthar Engineering College for Women, Thiuchengode in Tamil Nadu

Mining Engineering
Mining engineering is a field that involves many of the other engineering disciplines as applied to extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment.
Mining engineering is the extraction of valuable ores from the ground for processing and utilisation. It involves all phases of mining operations starting from exploration and discovery, through feasibility, development, production, processing and marketing to final land restoration and rehabilitation.
Mining engineers are responsible for locating natural reserves of minerals, petroleum, and other useful natural substances and then lay out plans, device shafts, inclines or quarries safe extraction of theses resources, whether they be coal or petroleum or metallic and non metallic minerals from under the earth.

Mining engineers are employed by mining companies initially at the mining centres where minerals are extracted. Sometimes, even civil engineering construction companies employ mining engineers to supervise tunnelling and open cut operations railways and roads etc.
Mining engineering is offered at graduate level at college of engineering Anna University Chennai.

Mechatronics Engineering
Mechatronics Engineering is the combination of mechanical, electrical and computer technologies. It is a relatively new field of engineering with many exciting developments such as Internet control of machines, autonomous robots and engine management systems. There is, and will continue to be, a strong demand for engineers who are capable of designing, implementing and operating these systems to meet an increasing need in industry where complexity of projects is done with limited resources.

Mechatronics is centered on mechanics, electronics and computing which, combined, make possible the generation of simpler, more economical, reliable and versatile systems. The portmanteau “mechatronics” was first coined by Mr. Tetsuro Mori, a senior engineer of the Japanese company Yaskawa, in 1969. Mechatronics may alternatively be referred to as “electromechanical systems” or less often as “control and automation engineering”.

A typical mechatronics engineering degree would involve classes in engineering mathematics, mechanics, machine component design, mechanical design, thermodynamics, circuits and systems, electronics and communications, control theory, digital signal processing, power engineering, robotics and usually a final year thesis

B.E in Mechatronics is offered in the following institutions

* Kumaraguru College of Technology – Coimbatore
* Kongu Engineering College – Perundurai, Erode.
* Sri Krishna Engineering College - Coimbatore
* K.S.R. College of Technology – Tiruchengode
* Maharaja College of Engineering – Avinashi

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Medical Electronics prepares you for high-tech healthcare industry

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