Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid

PHD AT THE UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Centre ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS DE TELECOMUNICACION
Official Degree PhD in Biomedical Engineering (R.D.99/2011)
Web https://doctorado.lst.tfo.upm.es
Doctoral Area ICT
Places 30
Contact José Javier Serrano Olmedo
9133679267
pd.ingbiomed@upm.es
Presentation

 

The impressive advance that medicine underwent since the second half of the twentieth century would not have been possible without the concurrent contribution of the new technologies. Scientific research, development and innovation on Biomedical Engineering are nowadays fundamental instruments within this panorama. It is from here that the growing need comes about for the training of researchers that apply the concepts and methods of engineering to the understanding, definition and resolution of problems in biology and medicine.

 

The general objective of this PhD Program is to provide the students the training and experience required to tackle successfully the research tasks of UPM on Life Sciences, to elaborate his/her PhD thesis and to initiate them in a life dedicated to scientific research.

 

The vision of this PhD program is that of a campus, a community of researchers, research lines and infrastructure (the BioTech initiative on Life Sciences at UPM), immersed in an international context and with an intense collaboration with health care institutions and the industrial environment. This vision of the PhD Program extends the old concept of multidisciplinarity, based on mostly disjoint combination of disciplines, toward a model that provides adequate skills and knowledge not only to solve problems but to formulate them, to handle efficiently the complexity and ambiguity ever present in the Biomedical Engineering field.

 

The mission of the program is to optimally contribute to the education of a new generation of researchers on Biomedical Engineering, to obtain the maximum benefit of the infrastructure, laboratories, experimental models and researchers available at the Biomedical Technology Centre (Centro de Tecnología Biomédica CTB) and the other research groups and departments that participate in the Program.

 

Although customization of the course contents to each student is a main criteria of the Program, content offer has been structured, for reasons of organization and guidance of students, into three main profiles:

 

Profile 1: Telemedicine and information systems.

 

Profile 2: Biomedical signal and image processing.

 

Profile 3: Devices, biomaterials and biomechanics.

 

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