Development of undergraduate medical electronic programme in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Medical electronics is one of the areas in Biomedical Engineering which apply electronic engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. The growth of the medical electronics market and the need for specialized engineer in Malaysian´s healthcare industry will increase the demand of medical electronics graduate. Thus, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia had proposed to offer medical electronics programme at the undergraduate level to fulfill the demand. In this paper, various aspects of curriculum design and development of medical electronic programme were presented. The outcomes of this paper would benefit faculty members in developing new and innovative engineering programme.