• This course is offered First Time In Tamil Nadu, with the approval of AICTE & Anna University – Coimbatore from 2007.
• Medical Electronics Engineering is a 4 years degree course and eligible diploma candidates can take a direct entry to II year.
• Medical Electronics Engineering course is a combination of Basic Electronics Engineering with Medical Physiology and Bio-Medical Instrumentation. It also includes the latest IT/Computer subjects and its applications to Medical Electronics field

• Human Anatomy and Physiology
• Instrumentation Theory
• Principles of Computers
• Bio medical Instrumentation
• Object Oriented Programming
• Micro Processor & Applications
• Digital signal processing
• Bio Signal Processing
• Medical Informatics
• Bio materials & Artificial Organs
• Principles of Medical Imaging
• Data Mining for Medical Electronics
• Medical Export Systems
• Principles of Telemedicine
• Pattern Recognition
• Neural Computing
• Robotics
• Bio MEMS

Medical Electronics Engineering that advances knowledge in Engineering and Medicine is one of the most extensively growing fields of this era where people prefer the best and precise health service. Medical Science examines treats and cures almost all the disease meeting the need of accuracy by the people by using sophisticated and precise equipments. A medical electronics engineer can be called as the doctor of the equipments without which a doctor, a surgeon or a multi specialty hospital is helpless. He/She is the person, who knows the mechanism, operation and maintenance of these equipments. Medical Electronics engineers are the one who design devices and measures that solve medical and health-related problems by combining their knowledge of biology and medicine with engineering principles and practices. Many do research, along with life scientists, chemists, and medical scientists, to develop and evaluate systems and products such as artificial organs, prostheses (artificial devices that replace missing body parts), instrumentation, medical information systems, health management and care delivery systems. Medical Electronics engineers also design devices used in various medical procedures, imaging systems such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and devices for automating insulin injections or controlling body functions. Some specialties within medical electronics engineering include biomaterials, biomechanics, medical imaging, rehabilitation engineering, and orthopedic engineering. Medical Electronics Engineering Technology appeals to students desiring to be technical, and, at the same time, devote their careers to saving lives by helping doctors, nurses and hospital patients. Graduates become medical electronics engineers and maintain, repair, and calibrate the electronic medical instruments used in healthcare. To advance in these careers, it is also important to develop skills in communicating problems, ideas and solutions to other employees.
 This program will develop troubleshooting skills in analog circuits, digital circuits, and processors. In addition, they must understand physiology, medical terminology and the operation of medical instruments such as EKG instruments, defibrillators, and incubators.
 In the workforce, graduates are typically employed by hospitals or a subcontractor for a hospital. Some graduates are employed by manufacturers of medical instruments or medical devices, or as field support technicians, after earning experience in the field.
 Although this program’s primary objective is workforce development, some graduates choose to continue their education and are accepted into Electronic Technology bachelor degree programs, pursue a degree in business, or continue their education in clinical programs.
However, students intending to continue full-time education toward a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology are encouraged to consider the Electronic Engineering Technology Program

The core health care science and research in medical sciences will have ever-increasing interface with technology areas. The future will not only be dominated by advances in life sciences but will witness the merging of entire technologies and medicine.

This synergy is already happening and we should not be caught unawares. To meet these challenges, a new breed of medical professionals is required which will be conversant with the medical profession as well as the engineering profession, and who will be able to fuse together the medical sciences with the high -end technologies.

The students of the Medical Electronics engineering here, have the unique opportunity to work with health care teams of the DSI group and acquire good theoretical and practical knowledge of engineering, sound understanding of medical sciences and ultimately able to combine the two.

Most of the medical research in India has been predominantly of clinical nature-dealing with treatment methods. Research in fundamental areas and frontier areas of medical science has not been stimulated due to lack of funds, facilities, ambience and integration between doctors and technologists.

The research done through this kind of collaboration between doctors and technologists will ultimately meet the requirements of the medical profession, and determine the progress in the field of medicine with a long term perspective. This will allow the country to remain at the frontier of global advances in medicine.

Such innovative research in the long run will reduce imports, lead to development of new drugs, and will be geared towards making the country self-sufficient, and attaining a leading role in the world. But facilities for such kind of research are woefully inadequate in our country, if not non-existent. Further, the need for trained manpower in this area was also felt for quite some time.

• Instrumentation & Medical devices
• Biomaterials
• Biomechanics
• Medical Imaging
• Nanotechnology
• Genetic engineering
• Cryogenics

Career Options
The United States Department of Labour reports that the number of biomedical engineering jobs will increase by 31.4 percent through 2010, double the rate for all other jobs combined. Overall job growth in this field will average 15.2% through the end of the decade.
The Health Care industry has been growing at a rapid pace in the past few years. With an annual growth rate of 30%, India is already inching closer to Singapore, an established Medicare hub in Asian region. The emerging emphasis on India as a Healthcare destination has further fuelled the rapid growth of the Healthcare Industry.
The Indian Healthcare Industry is estimated at US$22 billion and the Medical device market is estimated at US $ 1.85 billion and growing at 15% per annum. Thus with the rapid pace of growth comes the ever increasing demand for highly skilled and well trained Medical Electronics Engineering work force.

Eligibility
Admissions for the first year of the course shall be open to students who have passed the two-year, 10+2 with science background is eligible for Engineering & Technology courses. Diploma candidates and B.Sc. graduates are considered eligible for admission to Second Year B.E. course as lateral entry.

Opportunities
Medical Electronics engineers have skills that are invaluable to many potential employers, including, Industrial Research labs, Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centers, Educational and Research Institutions, Biotechnology industry, Pharmaceutical industry, Medical instrumentation industry, Prosthetics and implants industry, Environmental and public health sector, Government regulatory agencies as Maintenance & Service Engineer, Biomedical Engineer, Application Specialist, Sales & Marketing Executives, Production Engineer, Medical Software Engineer, Lecturers.

Placement Records
The department of Medical Electronics has constantly maintained 100% placement till date. For the current 2012 passing out students of medical electronics engineering has achieved 100% placement within a very short span, reinforcing the strong academic culture.

Industrial Trainings, Seminars and Industrial visits

• One week training at Govt. of India’s Advanced Training Institute for Electronics and Process Control Instrumentation (ATIEPI), Hyderabad on Cardiac and Ultrasonic Equipments.
• One week training in hospitals on all Hospital Equipments.
• One day visit to vTitan, Chennai
• One day visit to Sri Chithira Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala.
• One day visit to Shoney Scientific, Pondicherry.
• One day visit to Kayenes Technology, Mysore
• One day visit to Jansons MRI Diagnostic (P) LTD, Erode
• One day visit to PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore
• One day visit Pykara dam – power station, Ooty
• One day visit to Hindusthan Photo Films, Ooty
• One day visit to Kodai FM station, Kodaikanal
• Two days CSIR sponsored seminar on “Advances in Medical Electronics”.
• One day seminar on “Application of Digital Image Processing”