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Healthcare providers, including hospitals and clinics, rely on biomedical engineering technicians to operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair medical equipment. The BET degree can prepare you to work in this expanding technical field.
In addition to a well-rounded general education core, the 71-credit curriculum includes courses in electricity and electronics, physiology, chemistry, mathematics, information sciences, computer networking, physiological transducers, biomedical equipment, and medical equipment troubleshooting. Within this curriculum, students learn operation, inspection procedures, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting of most of the standard types of medical instrumentation. Throughout the program, they will gain exposure and experience working with patient monitors, infusion devices, electrosurgical units, defibrillators, pacemakers, anesthesia machines, and ventilators, just to name a few.
The curriculum culminates in a 400-hour (40 hours/week for 10 weeks) clinical internship at one of over 50 approved healthcare facilities throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and many other states. This curriculum not only prepares students for entry into the biomedical field, but also gives them the education necessary to sit for the International Certification Commission (ICC) Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician (CBET) exam or to pursue a B.S. degree in Engineering Technology.
The Penn State New Kensington Biomedical Engineering Technology Program has long been recognized by the biomedical community as a leader in providing a quality biomedical technology education and for producing well qualified and knowledgeable technicians.
The Penn State New Kensington Biomedical Engineering Technology Associate Degree program is one of only three programs of its kind in the nation to be accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202 – Telephone 410-347-7700.
