Purpose:

Due to the demanding of our industry’s competitive future, this Master of Advanced Study in Medical Device Engineering at UCSD offers a focused cross-disciplinary technical education program for professional practicing engineers on technology areas that are crucial for future medical device advancements. This program provides:

- Specialized courses in clinical needs assessment that help us writing quality requirements with greater precision to meet the user needs.

- Gain knowledge in state-of-the-art engineering technologies in bioengineering, biomaterials, biophysiology, genomics, computing and telecommunications.

- One year capstone project to apply new methods and technologies in a prototype that could be use to enhance our current products.

- Earn a master’s degree in two years with world-class faculties at UCSD from courses offering on Friday/Saturday.

Cost: Two options

1) Quarterly payments$3,800 Sept/2013$7,200 Dec/2013$7,200 March/2014$4,650 Sept/2014$5,500 Dec/2014

2) Annually payments$11,000 Sept/2013$11,000 March/2014$11,000 Jan/2015

$4,650 March/2015

Classes:

Fall 2013 –Medical Devices: Clinical Perspectives

Winter 2014 – Mechanics and Transport Processes for Biomedical Device Design and Fundamentals of Physiology and Anatomy

Spring 2014 – Computer Aided Design of Medical Devices and Life Sciences and Technologies

Fall 2014 – Design and Implementation of Medical Device Technology I and Biomaterials: Nano to Macro scale

Winter 2015 - Design and Implementation of Medical Device Technology II and Embedded System Design

Spring 2015 - Design and Implementation of Medical Device Technology III and Biobusiness: Small to Large