Biomedical Engineer Job Kit

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Biomedical

Engineer Invent solutions to real-world challenges in medicine and healthcare

UNSW Engineering

School of Biomedical Engineering

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FOREWORD

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Head of School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW

Shape the future of healthcare Biomedical engineers have extraordinary potential to save, transform and improve lives

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Medicine meets inventioneering is expanding

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gin The field of biomedical en seeing sweeping ’re rapidly and globally. We alised medicine, son per e advances in areas lik body parts and robotic tissue engineering, bionic eering to push the surgery. We’re using engin ssible for human health. boundaries of what’s po SW’s pioneering I’m especially proud of UN ral interfaces, neu d an work in healthcare apps elopment of dev the to including contributions being able to ne agi Im . eye Australia’s first bionic e who has lost it. restore vision to someon

Nigel Lovell, Scientia Pro fessor Biomedical Engineering , UNSW Co-Director, Tyree Institu te of Health Engineering

50 years of innovation

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Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

You’ll work with clinicia ns and industry partners to design, test and impleme nt real-world solutions. This means you’ll graduate wit h technical skills, and also with the ability to think across dis ciplines and work in diverse teams .

The opportunities for bio medical engineers really are as bro ad as healthcare is complex. You could be inventing smart implants, coding interacti ve health apps, creating better imaging systems, or working on wearable health tech and medical AI. As a biomedical engineer , you won’t just study the human body. You’ll dev elop skills that empower you to improve the quality of human life. You’ll have a career that’s dynamic, meaningful and future-fo cused.

If you’re curious, want to innovate, and care about helping others, you ’ve absolutely arrived at the right place.

PhD (Biomedical / Medical Engineering), UNSW

PROFESSOR NIGEL LOVELL, Scientia g, UNSW Biomedical Engineerin

Solving urgent problems in cardiology, rehabilitation and aged care continues to inspire me”

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER

DEEP DIVE

Healthcare meets high-tech

W hat is biomed ical engineering?

Biomedical en ginee rs desig n, bu ild, test and impr ove technologies to save and tra nsform lives.

biology, technology Biomedical engineering fuses h and save lives and creativity to improve healt

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ChallENG yourself Choose biomedical engineering at UNSW and you’ll get hands-on experience with healthcare and industry professionals, flexibility, practicality, cutting-edge research labs and access to the ChallENG program, which offers real-world projectbased learning.

You’ll learn from researchers leading the way in brain-computer interfaces, bionic limbs, medical robotics and more.

Where will you work?

You could work with robotics, chemistry, nanotechnology, coding, mechanical systems, wearable tech and more. A degree in biomedical engineering could take you anywhere. Just ask these UNSW biomedical engineering alumni:

WHO

WHAT

Anne Simmons, Professor

UNSW

Implantable defibrillators and the bionic ear

Jevan Arulampalam, Project Manager

Corin Group

Hip implants and replacements

Chuffed.org

Crowdfunding platform for social causes

Rylie Green, Professor of Bioelectronics

Imperial College London

Neuroprosthetics to restore lost function

Antonia Workman, Firmware Engineer

Cochlear Ltd

Epilepsy monitoring

Kevin Ambosta, Field Service Engineer

Abbott

Electrophysiology devices for heart health

Prashan Paramanathan, CEO and Founder

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Catch the wave

WHERE

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Specialise from the start wit h a four-year

Bachelor of Engineer ing (Honours) (Biomedica l Engineering) at UNSW. Want to diversify career and study your options? Combine your biomedic al

engineering degree with a sec ond degree in science, arts, commerce and more.

Thinking of being Master? Get more enginea ering in your

life with a UNSW Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Master of Biome dical Engineering combo, or go for a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Materials Scienc e & Engineering) / Master of Biomedical Eng ineering.

Why choose biomedical engineering?

Biomedical engineering is a great choice if: Y ou love medicine and healthcare.

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Y ou enjoy solving problems and being innovative.

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Y ou want a job that improves lives.

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Y ou love learning about new tech, like 3D bioprinting, smart biosensors and personalised medicine.

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Simply the besty

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Trending now abilities are expanding, Populations are aging, tech cap tion, and biomedical healthcare is entering a revolu it all happen. ke engineers are needed to ma open up in healthcare will s More than 580,000* job t ten years. and social assistance in the nex ralia *Source: Jobs and Skills Aust

Y ou want to apply your skills to help with big health issues, like hear t disease, cancer and motor neurone disease.

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UNSW research: True or false?

UNSW researchers…

• invented a microchip that powers bionic eyes.  T  F • are using AI to discover new biomarkers for cancer.  T  F

Typical salary

ma ke How much will you eer gin en al dic me bio as a age, er av in Australia*? On . ar ye $139K a *Source: Sal aryEx per t.com

Subjects to choose

Get a head start by choosin g these subje cts in hig h school: ✔ Maths ✔ Ph ysics ✔ Biolog y

Scholarships to watch • UNSW Women in Engineering Scholarship • UNSW Engineering Rural Scholarship

• created an app that has reduced hospital re-admissions by 50%.  T  F • created an app to help people with Parkinson’s disease walk. T F • are inventing heart implants that use silk to regrow heart tissue.  T  F

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QUIZ ANSWERS: ALL TRUE. UNSW IS THE OLDEST BIOMEDICAL SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA.

Take this true-or-false quiz to discover how UNSW biomedical engineering is making an impact.

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER

REAL PEOPLE

Gr aduate Engineer, Cochlear

Contribute to impactful innovation in healthcare

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katelinh nguyen graduate engineer cochlear

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Mechanical Intern, Cochlear

Research Assistant, UNSW

pporting Co-founder, SPLAT: Su Toys g tin ap Ad by Play

Katelinh Nguyen says biomedical engineering is all about people

e hit animation stars ver seen Big Hero 6? Th it inspired Katelinh a hea lthcare robot, and al engineering.

Ng uyen to study biomedic eering would let me “I knew biomedical engin d work on innovative be creative, hands-on an ality of life,” she says. solutions to improve qu at Australian medical Now a graduate engineer ous for its hearing device giant Coch lear, fam she’s applying the skills implants, Katelinh says ange lives. she learned at uni to ch eloping technologies dev “I’m contributing to life, which is that improve quality of me.” to ful ing incredibly mean at dy stu to se Katelinh cho ers tur lec her s say UNSW, and way. the of p ste ry eve her inspired ies “Many of the opportunit s to my I pursued, from casua l job urricu lar rac research thesis and ext sations ver con m programs, came fro ragement cou en the d with lecturers an ” they provided.

off-the-shelf toys for individual needs, something that is usually prohibitively expensive.

“SPLAT is deeply close to my heart,” Katelinh says. “I believe every child deserves the right to play.”

Katelinh showcased SPLAT in the Peter Farrell Cup, UNSW’s most prestigious startup idea pitch competition, and won the People’s Choice and Faculty of Engineering Award. She’s now taking SPLAT global, and has travelled to the Solomon Islands and Tonga to help communities tailor toys for kids with special needs.

“I feel incredibly grateful to have found a project that aligns with both my values and my skills, and even more fortunate to have worked alongside a supportive and passionate community of students who share the same vision.”

Katelinh says her advice for new biomedical engineering students is to take every opportunity. “Stay curious and open.

Some of the most meaningful opportunities come from putting yourself out there and asking questions.”

SPLAT!

s SPLAT – One such opportunit y wa ing Toys – a social Supporting Play by Adapt ed with fellow nd initiative Katelinh co-fou UNSW students. workshops SPLAT leads hands-on dify mo to w ho that teach people

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Total life-saver

rre UNSW graduate Justin d’Etto

is revolutionising patient care

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Day in the life 7am

Calls with US colleagues.

8am

Check emails and organise tasks.

9am

Meetings with my sof tware engineering and project management team as well as dat a scientists and manufacturing engineers.

justin d’ettorre Staff Engineer, Stryker

12pm

Lunch! “My team is pretty social, so we typically coordinate together.”

1pm

Time to delve deeper, meeting with everyone from clinicians to our marketing champions.

I test and validate new ideas before the company then develo fully-fledged producps a t”

4pm

Time to wind down with admin.

5.30pm

Bachelor of Mechatronic Engineering (Honours) / Master of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Production Process Engineer, Southside Denture Clinic

Software Engineer Intern, Corin Group

Associate Project Engineer, Stryker

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Staff Engineer, Stryker

Go for a run. “I’ve only recently moved to Brisbane, so I’ll often try new places to eat in the evenings!”

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engineers, which made ustin comes from a family of ineering a no-brainer. “I enrolling in biomedical eng ver sities but chose UNSW compared a few different uni an it was globally recognised as biomedical engineering as s. excellent program,” he say excelled in coursework, he only not tin Jus uni, at ile Wh e extracurricular activities. “Lif also signed up for a string of s. say he ring was amazing,” at UNSW Biomedical Enginee president of the UNSW the ng omi His highlight? Bec dents’ Society, or BESS. Biomedical Engineering Stu es there,” he says. “It gave “I met some of my closest mat connections in the industry.” me the opportunity to further erience he got at Justin says the real-world exp s. ces One standout UNSW set his CV up for suc re he worked on a was his Honour s thesis, whe ds to pon res t heart-lung machine tha s. stic teri unique patient charac “My thesis supervisor went ing above and beyond by leverag with s ship tion close rela St Vincent’s Hospital.” put While at UNSW Justin also – s his hand up for internship h including time at medical tec ture den company Corin and ide. manufacturing clinic Souths red his sco he er, est sem l In his fina pany com ices dev ical med at first job: ineer designing Stryker. “I was a project eng country and then an surgical theatres across the s. say R&D staff engineer,” he ker’s Digital, Robotic s and Today Justin is par t of Stry e looking at how tech can driv Enabling Technologies team, bet ter patient care. rld elopment and have real-wo “We pioneer medical tech dev .” nce erie exp and es com impact in shaping patient out

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER

Get the job!

Drive global healthcare as a biomedical engineer

Decide You’re Jake from Avatar.

Do you adopt a human-Na’vi n hybrid body to explore the alie no? or Yes a? dor Pan of world

You’re Marie from Black Mirror’s Arkangel episode. itor Do you use an implant to mon and a dat ical med s kid’ r you audiovisual feeds? Yes or no?

Explore Get TLC from TCC (YouTube)

e (TCC) app, Check out the TeleClinical Car ws developed at UNSW, which allo e their health hav to s ient pat of nds usa tho ionals, all remotely monitored by profess e. hom ir from the comfort of the

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Invent Smart dental implants, exp lain

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What about a tooth implant that generates electricity as you chew?

Artificial Organs –The Fut ure of Tissue Engineering

From lungs to kidneys to hea rts, what if 3D printing and tissue engineering could create personalised artificia l organs?

Follow @UNSWBESS on Tik Tok

Millions of views, hundreds of thousands of likes. You’ll love the UNSW Bio medical Engineering Students’ Society TikToks.

Travel Want to work overseas?

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• Device Engineer Pharmaceuticals, Sandoz, UK

n Larry Hester, Experience the moment whe life, has his his half for d who has been blin t time. firs the for on ed bionic eye turn

and Paralysed man able to stand s tor doc er aft walk with an aid ws) Ne ian ard (Gu ice implant dev

ed after Gert-Jan Oskam was paralys t. He can iden acc an in k nec his g breakin after rs now stand, walk and climb stai brain. his in doctors implanted a device

• Senior Design Engineer Remote healthcare, ADI, Spain

• Research and Development Engineer

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Medical devices, Cook Medical, Ireland

• Biomedical engineer Sensors and bio-signaling, Oura, Finland

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