Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Become a specialist in biomedicine applied to the industrial, business, hospital and public-management-related scopes, as well as to research departments.
- Language: Spanish
- Credits: 90 ECTS
- Duration: 3 semesters (1,5 academic years)
- Spaces available: 25
- Modality: in-person
- Academic director: Armando Malanda Trigueros
- Faculty or school: School of Industrial & ICT Engineering
- Location: Pamplona
Presentation
Master’s degree in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Why study the Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering?
- There is a growing demand of biomedical engineering professionals in Navarre, pioneer on a state level for approving a Personalised Medicine Comprehensive Strategy integrating the health, innovation and economic development scopes.
- It will allow you to work on both engineering and medicine, in the industrial and business scopes, in hospitals and research laboratories.
- You will acquire advanced knowledge on different areas of biomedical engineering: image and medical signals analysis, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, biomechanics, biomaterials, instruments, medical devices interoperability, etc.
- You will be able to face and solve the problems and new challenges appearing in the medical and public-health-related practice.
- You will train to design and develop medical innovations in materials, processes and devices that will make it possible to deal with diseases and improve people's life quality.
You can do this master's degree with:
Specialisation
Training in competencies
Languages
From which degrees can I access the Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering?
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Telecommunications Engineering
- Computer Science
- Industrial Engineering
- Other engineering and science degrees: the Academic Commission will decide whether they are appropriate or not, depending on the academic content of the degree studied, apart from the professional experience and other curricular merits provided by the candidates.
What will I be able to work in when I finish the Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering?
- Development of alternatives based on ICT to improve the public health care and people's life quality.
- Management, planning and maintenance of systems in the hospital scope.
- Design, development and assessment of medical techniques, devices and technology.
- Design, implementation and assessment of algorithms for screening, detection or help with clinical decisions-making.
- Design, participation and direction of research, innovation and/or development projects within the biomedicine area.
Learning outcomes
Access and admission
Access requirements
To be admitted to the official Master's Degree courses, students must hold an official university degree issued by a higher education institution in the European Higher Education Area or in other countries which entitles them to access Master's degree courses in the country issuing the degree.
Specific criteria for the Master's degree
The Master’s degree Academic Commission is ultimately the entity in charge of deciding on admission. In the case that the number of people who meet the requirements is higher than the number of places offered, admission will follow the following criteria:
- Suitability of degree submitted
- Academic record
According to the degrees each applicant studied previously, the Academic Direction of the Master’s degree will decide if they are suitable to study the Master’s degree, as well as the training supplements they must study, up to a maximum of 18 ECTS.