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Graduate Profile

Last update: 27/04/2010

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The goal of training in Biomedical Engineering is to provide graduates with the knowledge, techniques, abilities and attitudes necessary for this profession and is summarized in the following general objectives:

1. Training which provides the graduate with a solid scientific foundation to fully meet the professional challenges of the biomedical sector.

2. Promoting the capabilities and competences aimed at problem solving, initiative, decision making, creativity, analysis and critical reasoning.

3. Providing the necessary technological knowledge that will allow the graduate to tackle problems in the field of biology.

4. Preparing graduates to carry out a unified scientific approach in matters related to biology, medicine and technology.

5. Training professionals who are able to apply the concepts of engineering to the fields of biology and health.

6. Preparing graduates in a variety of social, interpersonal, emotional and work competences within a multidisciplinary and international environment.

7. Providing graduates with technical skills and the sensitivity that will allow them to promote, organize and carry out innovations in the area of biomedical engineering.

8. Instilling the know-how to use clinical and biomedical instruments to obtain, organize and interpret scientific and health information.

9. Giving the necessary foundation for independent learning, or for further study of a postgraduate degree, enabling students to engage in in-depth academic pursuits and/or specialize in different fields of biomedical engineering.

10. Fomenting personal development in all its facets: scientific, cultural, and human. etc., resulting in a greater critical capacity and deeper understanding of problems, leading to an exercise of freedom, with respect for legal pluralism and a spirit of solidarity, to create spaces of equality, coexistence and friendship.

11. Fostering the social values inherent in a peaceful society, contributing to democratic coexistence, respect for human rights and basic principles such as fairness and equality.