Cracow, Poland

Medical Engineering

Inżynieria medyczna

Master's
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⇑Medical Engineering at PK Kraków

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies

⇑Test: Is Medical Engineering the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A hospital reports that a patient monitoring device keeps giving false alarms. How do you approach it?

2. How do you feel about designing an implant – choosing biocompatible materials and modelling stresses in simulation software?

3. Your medical device must meet strict safety standards and regulations. How do you see that?

4. Which Master’s project would you choose?

5. How do you feel about working with doctors, physiotherapists and patients to define what a device must do?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on design projects with engineers from many countries. How do you feel about that?

7. How do you feel about biomedical signal and image processing – ECG, EEG, ultrasound, MRI?

8. Your prototype works in the lab but fails in a real clinical setting. What do you do?

9. Which future role appeals to you most?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Medical Engineering?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Engineering
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson in Freeman J. Dyson. Disturbing the universe. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-090771-6. 
Engineering
Engineering is the conscious application of science to the problem of economic production.
Halbert Powers Gillette (1910). cited in: T.J. Hoover & J.C. Lounsbury Fish. The Engineering Profession. Stanford University Press, 1941. p. 463
Engineering
These experiences are not 'religious' in the ordinary sense. They are natural, and can be studied naturally. They are not 'ineffable' in the sense the sense of incommunicable by language. Maslow also came to believe that they are far commoner than one might expect, that many people tend to suppress them, to ignore them, and certain people seem actually afraid of them, as if they were somehow feminine, illogical, dangerous. 'One sees such attitudes more often in engineers, in mathematicians, in analytic philosophers, in book keepers and accountants, and generally in obsessional people'.
The peak experience tends to be a kind of bubbling-over of delight, a moment of pure happiness. 'For instance, a young mother scurrying around her kitchen and getting breakfast for her husband and young children. The sun was streaming in, the children clean and nicely dressed, were chattering as they ate. The husband was casually playing with the children: but as she looked at them she was suddenly so overwhelmed with their beauty and her great love for them, and her feeling of good fortune, that she went into a peak experience . . .
Colin Wilson in New Pathways In Psychology, p. 17
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