Study Biomedical Engineering (M.Sc.) at Trinity
Dr. Michael Monaghan gives an overview on the MSc. in Biomedical Engineering.
Course Overview 2022/2023
The MSc in Biomedical Engineering aims to provide engineers and scientists with the education and creative skills needed to practice in the medical devices industry and focus on important clinical needs. Now, in addition to the award winning MSc in Biomedical Engineering programme (General), students can opt for the MSc in Biomedical Engineering with specialisation strands. All three strands (General, Neural & Tissue) lead to the award of the MSc in Biomedical Engineering and consist of compulsory core modules and optional modules. Please monitor this page for any changes to the streams for 2023/24.
- MSc Biomedical Engineering General Stream
- MSc Biomedical Engineering Medical Device Design (The Medical Device Design Stream did not run as an individual stream for 2022/23 but there was a Medical Device Design component in the General Stream)
- MSc Biomedical Engineering Neural Engineering
- MSc Biomedical Engineering Tissue Engineering
See the Course Handbook for general information on current module content and the timetable for an example of the annual schedule
Full module descriptors can be found on the Current Students page
MSc Biomedical Engineering General Stream
The MSc Biomedical Engineering gives you the opportunity to be involved in exciting new developments in biomedical engineering ranging from developing new materials for use in cardiac care, analysing minute electrical signals changes in the brain for neurological diagnosis to artificially growing new tissue to replace organ transplantation. The Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering has extensive clinical research in all the five teaching hospitals. As member of this biomedical community, you would have the opportunity to learn from activities in the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, and relate your course material to the real clinical challenges that are being researched and the solutions being generated. The Centre has over 20 academics from all School of Engineering, School of Medicine, Dental School, School of Natural Sciences and over 75 PhD and 28 MSc researchers.
MSc Biomedical Engineering with specialisation in Medical Device Design Engineering - did not run as an individual stream for 2022/23 but there was a Medical Device Design component in the General Stream.
This programme has been developed to educate and train the next generation of medical device designers/innovators. The course at the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering is designed to interact with the medical device industry, clinicians and researchers to produce new solutions to current clinical needs. The field of medical device research is a fast moving arena which can offer students a rewarding career in the global medical device market.
MSc Biomedical Engineering with specialisation in Neural Engineering
This MSc programme is focused on clinical neural engineering. This is based on signal processing of neuroimaging and electrophysiological data to solve specific clinical problems. MSc research projects employ neuroimaging methods (EEG and MRI) to develop quantitative methods to understand neurological function but also to develop new analytical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods that allow outcomes of interventions to be more accurately predicted. MSc research projects will be collaboration with clinical colleagues including those in neurology, neurophysiology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, gerontology and respiratory medicine. Many of the projects require data acquisition from clinical cohorts.
MSc Biomedical Engineering with specialisation in Tissue Engineering
This programme has been developed to educate and train the next generation of biomedical tissue engineers. This is an exciting multidisciplinary field of research which holds significant potential in the treatment of many diseases and disorders.
The only course of its kind in Ireland, the MSc. in Biomedical Engineering received two awards in 2012 (known then as the MSc in Bioengineering) which recognise the scale and diversity the course delivers in terms of the student experience, its contribution to the Irish economy and making an impact on global healthcare challenges.
Engineers Ireland Excellence in Education Award & Best Postgraduate Course of the Year 2012 in Engineering
