Training professionals who support patient care through life-saving technology
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About the Program
Medical equipment plays a critical role in patient care from monitoring vital signs to supporting treatments that patients depend on every day. When medical equipment fails, patient care can be delayed, interrupted, or put at risk. Healthcare facilities depend on skilled professionals to prevent those failures by testing, maintaining, and repairing the technology used to support patients every day.
Biomedical Engineering Technology (BET) is a hands-on, two-year degree that prepares students to work with the medical equipment used in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare systems. Students learn how to operate, inspect, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair the technology healthcare teams rely on to care for patients. Graduates are prepared to begin careers in a growing healthcare technology field with strong employment opportunities.
Curriculum Details
Hands-on medical equipment training in operation, inspections, preventative maintenance, and troubleshooting
Classroom learning in electronics, physiology, chemistry, computer networking, and more
Experience with real devices like patient monitors, defibrillators, pacemakers, infusion devices, electrosurgical units, and anesthesia machines
An internship at one of more than fifty approved healthcare facilities in the Pittsburgh region, with opportunities outside the region as well
The official course requirements, including suggested academic plans, are available in the Undergraduate Bulletin.
Many US states and territories require professional licensure/certification to be employed. If you plan to pursue employment in a licensed profession after completing this program, please visit the Professional Licensure/Certification Disclosures by State interactive map. The BET program fully prepares students for employment as a biomedical engineering technician as well as for CBET certification. A PE license is not required for employment.