B.Tech Biomedical Engineering

• Students can apply for this course under Merit-list quota. Under this category, students have to score good marks in the merit exams to take an admission in a reputed college.
• Students can also apply for this course under Management quota. In this category, students have to pay a good amount of fees to get an admission in the colleges. Some colleges might conduct an interview process before giving an admission to the students.

• Analyze ideas and use logic to determine their pros and cons.
• Combining segregated data and information and drawing suitable conclusions.
• Use logic and reasoning to find solutions to problems.
• Recognizing the nature of a problem.
• Judgement of costs and benefits of a possible action and analyzing its cause and effects.
• Observing when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Thinking, designing and implementing new and original, unusual, or creative ideas to solve problems or improve systems.
• Identifying problems and recognising what must be changed to reach targets.
• Recognize when important changes happen or are likely to happen in a system.
• Understand and analyse updated information by studying and working on it.
• Develop rules that group and divide items into sections in different ways.

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Material Sciences
• Basics of civil and mechanical engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Basics of electrical and electronic engineering
• Environmental sciences
• Electric circuit analysis
• Electronic circuits
• Electric devices
• Human Anatomy & Physiology
• Switch theory and Logical Design
• Electrical and Electronic Instruments
• C++ & Data structure
• Dynamics of Biofluids
• Material strengths
• Medical Instrumentation
• Control System Engineering
• Embedded systems in Medicine
• Microprocessors
• Principals of Diagnostics and Therapeutic Equipment
• Linear integrated circuits
• Medical informatics
• Signals and Systems
• Digital Image Processing
• Biomechanics
• Medical Instrumentation
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Principles of radiological equipment
• Advanced biomedical instruments
• Biomaterials
• Biotelemetry
• Hospital safety and management

The primary career options will revolve around Medical companies, Hospitals, Instrument Manufacturers, Diagnostic centres, and Installation Units.

According to a report from Investindia, India is amongst the top five countries among healthcare markets across the world. This shows the biomedical engineering scope in India, which is also growing at a rapid pace. It is expected that India will rank amongst the top 3 healthcare markets in terms of incremental growth by the year 2020.

Here are some insights from InvestIndia (government website):

• The healthcare information technology market is expected to grow 1.5 times from current $1 bn market by the year 2020.
• The healthcare diagnostics market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.4% to reach $32 bn in 2020 from $5 bn in 2012.
• Within the span of the last five years (2015-20), the in-patient market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13%.
• By 2020, the Indian telemedicine market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20% to reach $32 mn from $15 mn.
• There has been a 370% increase in healthcare expenditure between 2000-2014.
• A reach of 15.06% increase in the total investment in healthcare startups in the last few years.
• There is an approximate 40% share in hospital beds in private sectors.
• Healthcare industry has occupied about 22.9% industry CAGR in the span of 2015-2020.

Besides this, here are some helpful data that will help you in understanding the scope of biomedical engineering in India. InvestIndia is one of the reputed government websites in India that provides such information:

• Healthcare industry in India is projected to reach $372 bn by 2022
• The medical industry in India, accounts for 80% of the total healthcare market, and witnesses a huge investor demand from both global as well as domestic markets. The hospital industry is expected to reach $132 bn by 2023 from $ 61.8 bn in 2017; rapidly increasing at a CAGR of 16-17%.
• The Indian Medical Tourism markets are expected to grow from $3 bn to $7-8 bn by 2020.
• The diagnostics industry in India is currently valued at an estimated $4 bn. The share of the organized sector is almost 25% in this segment (15% in labs and 10% in radiology).
• The primary healthcare industry is currently valued at an estimated $13 bn.