About Biomedical Engineering Division

The Biomedical Engineering Division (BmED) represents a diverse, exciting and relatively new area within the field of engineering and has over 3000 chartered engineers across the IMechE membership, working in the field of healthcare and medtech. The BmED is the largest group of professional biomedical engineers in the UK.

Biomedical engineering is also known as medical engineering healthcare engineering, bioengineering, or clinical engineering if you are in the NHS. Biomedical engineering is the integration of professional engineering with medical knowledge of the human body, such as:

• hip replacements
• pacemakers
• computer simulations
• artificial limbs
• rehabilitation devices
• robotic surgery
• medical devices
• assistive technology
• sports engineering
• independent living
• modelling of biological systems.

Where Do These Engineers Work?

Our members typically work in industry on the design, development and manufacture of medical devices, in hospitals or healthcare looking at providing non-clinical services, and with government regulatory agencies and health-related industries or academic research facilities.

Career Opportunities
Career prospects for graduates or those considering a change in career path.

What we do

The BmED collaborates widely with other engineering institutions and related organisations, we have compiled a useful list of websites of some of these as well as subject specialists. The Division’s members organise joint events, work to agree common standards for degree courses and professional competency, promote biomedical engineering careers and encourage students.

When you join the IMechE as an Affiliate or member you can select ‘Medicine & Health’ in the Industry Settings and this will give you access to our:

• Seminars, lectures and conferences; often jointly organised with other organisations to offer a programme that spans our discipline and raises awareness of our subject
• Our high-profile journals 
• A monthly Medical Newsletter
• Annual Student Project Competition
• Useful resources and Information on the field of Biomedical Engineering in our library

Our Objectives

• Become the natural home for the biomedical engineering profession in the UK
• Bring together people from both medicine and engineering to discuss the latest advances and issues
• Enable networking among industry leaders, and encourage best practice
• Promote the biomedical engineering field to government, healthcare professionals and the wider public
• Support the professional development of our members throughout their careers from students to senior practitioners
• Develop specialist centres in geographical areas where there are concentrations of biomedical engineers.

Our Regional Centres

We have a number of Regional Centres in geographical areas where there are concentrations of biomedical engineers. Each centre hosts events and networking and is a great way to get involved in the Division and wider IMechE programmes:

• Birmingham centre
• Cambridge centre