Biomedical Equipment Technology Associate of Applied Science

Brown Mackie College — Louisville

The Biomedical Equipment Technology degree program at Brown Mackie College – Louisville in Kentucky is an associate’s degree program that prepares you for a variety of positions in an industry that provides and maintains diagnostic, treatment, and life-support equipment in the medical field. This Biomedical Equipment Technology degree program provides you with training in electronics technology with specialized emphasis on medical applications and computer systems technology.

Biomedical equipment technicians are needed for installation, user training, periodic maintenance and repair. As a graduate, you may find employment opportunities with tertiary healthcare settings where a wide variety of equipment is used daily in the diagnosis, care, and treatment of patients. Other opportunities can be found in the manufacturing industry which specializes in the production of durable biomedical equipment, and in service companies whose specialty it is to sell and service durable medical equipment.

The degree program in Louisville also is designed to help prepare you for the Biomedical Equipment Technician certification exam of the International Certification Commission for Clinical Engineering and Biomedical Technology.* Professional certification is an appealing resume feature with career support through professional associations.

This Biomedical Equipment Technician degree program offers you courses on:
• Installation, inspection, maintenance and repair of medical and clinical equipment.
• Engineering mechanics and physics, as well as electronic circuit analysis.
• Anatomy and physiology, biology, and chemistry.

* Brown Mackie College – Louisville does not guarantee third-party certification. Outside agencies control the requirements for certifications and are subject to change without notice to Brown Mackie College.