Graduates are offered a wide range of opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with medical professionals, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Occupational areas include the manufacture of medical-technical products, biomedical research, enterprises with large medical devices and testing and acceptance inspections pursuant to the Medical Devices Act.
Biomedical technology is a multidisciplinary specialist technology that combines the various disciplines of medicine, natural sciences and engineering sciences. Hochschule Ruhr West - University of Applied Sciences focuses on the application of electrical engineering in the medical field. The curriculum for this aspect of Electrical Engineering includes:
Research and development projects in these areas are conducted in close cooperation between Hochschule Ruhr West - University of Applied Sciences and local industries. After completing the second semester, students are given the opportunity of collaborating on these projects.