Would you like to research and design ways to improve health care and medical services? You could develop and oversee the operation of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment or design medical devices that improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.

Biomedical Engineers have produced artificial parts for hearts, ears, limbs - you name it - and given quality of life, and life itself, back to many who otherwise would be without it.

Biomedical Engineers work in health care and must have a good theoretical and practical knowledge of engineering, a sound understanding of medical sciences and the ability to combine the two.

As a Biomedical Engineer, you may design new medical monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, test the safety, efficiency and effectiveness of equipment or plan data processing services and the development of associated computing programs.

You could design and deliver technology to assist people with disabilities, analyse and design prosthetic and orthotic devices or design and develop equipment for medical imaging to display anatomical detail or physiological function.