This course provides science or engineering graduates from a diversity of backgrounds with the technical knowledge and skills necessary to develop a career in this rapidly expanding area. The principles of the course are highly relevant to the established medical device sector, the biotechnology industry and the emerging regenerative medicine industry. The course builds on our internationally leading research in biomedical optical imaging and teaching is undertaken by experts in imaging and sensing.

Imaging and sensing is well established as an important sector of the medical devices industry with some large companies and a large number of small to medium enterprises. Exciting opportunities exist in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors where imaging and sensing devices play a key role in the new product development process.