• Access purpose-built state-of-the-art teaching and laboratory facilities and heavy engineering pods at Tonsley
• Experience personalised teaching and great staff-student working relationships
• Flinders biomedical and materials engineering research ranks above world standard in the Australian Government’s latest Excellence in Research Australia rankings (2015)
• Put your mechanical engineering skills to the test in a range of national competitions like the Solar Car Challenge and Weir Warman Design Competition
• Nationally recognised integrated work placement gives you practical industry experience

Graduates may work in many areas in the mining, defence, manufacturing, shipbuilding, environmental, engineering consulting, building services, automotive, and petrochemical industries or in the design and production of diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment in hospitals, devices to assist in home-based health care and rehabilitation, and sensory and control systems.

Potential occupations include:

• biomedical engineer
• clinical support specialist consultant
• customer support engineer
• pathology field service engineer
• instrumentation engineer.

Potential employers include:

• hospital trusts
• medical equipment manufacturers
• university research departments
• other research units and rehabilitation or health charities.

Professional accreditation/recognition

This degree is fully accredited by Engineers Australia at the level of professional engineer. Professional engineering courses accredited by Engineers Australia are recognised internationally under the Washington Accord. Graduates meet the academic requirements for attaining chartered professional engineering status.