Transducers and Instrumentation for Physiological Measurements
Medical Imaging
Functional Anatomy and Physiology Lab
Clinical Attachment
Minor Project for duration of 2.5 months
semester (BMT Wing, SCTIMST)
Medical Device Technology
Biomaterials
Critical Care Instrumentation and Therapeutic Equipment
Clinical Engineering, Quality system & Management
Design Tools for Clinical Engineering - Laboratory
Engineering Problems in Hospitals - Laboratory
Clinical Attachment
Clinical Engineering Internship - External
semester
Major Project: As students spend a considerable amount of time in these three institutes, they have a scope to interact with many experienced faculties and explore various lab facilities. With this exposure they can choose a project of their interest in any of these laboratories. Upon graduation, students can:
Contribute to immediate specific needs of industries, R&D labs, Hospitals
Be innovators and leaders in specific areas of medical technology
Become entrepreneurs specializing in medical devices.
All the students are required to independently identify the problems in clinical settings during their clinical attachment and then try to solve them using an innovative approach and finally submit the solutions which are novel, practical and implementable. one or more of these ideas might on a later stage be implemented as a project. This gives the students a chance to hone their skills of innovative thinking. Hundreds of such ideas have been generated so far.
Clinical Attachment
Clinical Attachment gives opportunity to explore and get familiarized with the clinical environment. It provides the student with skill-set to identify and translate the unmet needs in the clinic as well as to work as an interface between the engineering professionals and clinicians in identifying and solving problems pertaining to medical devices.
Clinical Attachment at CMC Vellore: At CMC Vellore, the clinical attachment is 2 days per week for an entire semester leading to more than 100 hours of total clinical rotation across about 10 clinical departments.
Clinical Attachment at SCTIMST: The clinical attachment at SCTIMST Hospital is 2 days per week, where the students have to spend 8 hours per day in a department and have an opportunity to interact with the Clinicians and know about the unmet clinical needs. The students are posted at various departments like Cardiology, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology and Anesthesia.
Eligibility Criteria
GATE qualified candidates with Bachelor's degree in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture from educational Institutions approved by AICTE/ Government.
Candidates graduating/ graduated from IITs with B.Tech. Degree and having CGPA of 8.0 and above can apply without GATE Score. These applications will be reviewed by the respective Department.
Admission Process
The admissions are carried out by IIT Madras at the IIT Madras campus, Chennai. Only the candidates with a valid GATE score are eligible to apply for this program. Applications can be sent in when the notification is released. The candidates are shortlisted directly based on GATE scores and the candidates can freeze their options through COAP. Intake currently being offered under this program is around 16 students every year.
M.Tech to PhD Conversion
M.Tech students meeting certain criteria can be allowed to transit to a PhD program after the third semester. The decision can be made at the end of the second semester according to the rules at IIT Madras
