REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
Are you passionate about medicine and engineering? Do you want to contribute to improving the quality of life for people with disabilities and the elderly? Let's explore the field of Rehabilitation Engineering - a discipline full of potential and opportunities for growth.
Program Introduction
Rehabilitation Engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines rehabilitation medicine and engineering technology. Modern rehabilitation engineering uses comprehensive engineering technologies such as mechanics, electronics, and computers to prevent, assess, enhance, compensate, or restore the functions of individuals with disabilities.
This technology is developing towards intelligence and the Internet of Things, becoming an emerging interdisciplinary field that supports an aging society and public health. Rehabilitation engineering plays an irreplaceable role in rehabilitation medicine and is sometimes the only means for the rehabilitation of individuals with permanent disabilities.
Training Objectives
The program aims to cultivate high-level specialized talents who meet the needs of social and economic development and the rehabilitation health industry. Graduates will master clinical knowledge, rehabilitation treatment knowledge, and rehabilitation engineering technology.
They will possess skills in the design, manufacturing, and fitting of medical equipment, rehabilitation aids, and prosthetics and orthotics. Graduates will have excellent character, good teamwork spirit, and a certain degree of innovation awareness, enabling them to engage in research and development, and application in various rehabilitation institutions, hospitals, and medical equipment companies.
Graduation Requirements
Moral and Professional Quality Goals
- Establish a scientific worldview, outlook on life, and values. Be ambitious, firm in belief, love the motherland, and be loyal to the people.
- Love the rehabilitation engineering profession, have a sense of social responsibility to serve the country and the people, and be willing to dedicate a lifetime to the development of the rehabilitation industry and human health.
- Establish the concepts of socialist democracy, rule of law, freedom, equality, fairness, and justice. Cultivate qualities such as law-abiding, integrity, dedication, teamwork, and perseverance.
- Embrace lifelong learning, cultivate a rigorous and realistic scientific attitude, critical thinking, and innovative spirit, and continuously pursue excellence.
- Develop humanitarian spirit, respect patients, care for life, consciously uphold professional ethics, practice medicine according to law, prioritize patient interests, and maintain public health. Foster teamwork spirit and effective communication skills.
Knowledge Goals
- Master the basic principles of Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, and the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Have basic knowledge of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as sports and military knowledge.
- Master the basic theories and knowledge of basic medicine and clinical medicine necessary for this major. Understand the basic theories and knowledge of prosthetics technology, orthotics technology, and human rehabilitation aids technology.
- Have the ability to engage in the research and development of rehabilitation aids, prosthetics, and orthotics. Be capable of working in research, production, and management of rehabilitation equipment and related fields.
- Understand the normal structure and function of the human body at various stages of life.
- Be familiar with regulations and policies related to scientific research, intellectual property, and aids management. Understand national policies and regulations on the production, design, research and development, and environmental protection of rehabilitation aids.
- Master literature retrieval methods, be able to use library resources and modern information technology to research issues related to prosthetics and orthotics engineering, and acquire new knowledge and relevant information. Be able to read medical literature in a foreign language.
- Possess strong knowledge and abilities in engineering, technology development, production management, and business management.
Skills Goals
- Master the basic theories, knowledge, and skills of this major, and have the cultural literacy expected of university students. Possess the ability to learn independently, think independently, and initially master practical research and development work in this major.
- Have the ability for self-directed learning and lifelong learning.
- Have the ability to produce rehabilitation aids and install prosthetics and orthotics.
- Have the ability to manage and maintain medical/rehabilitation equipment.
- Be able to apply rehabilitation aids according to specific situations.
- Have the ability to keep up with the development trends in the rehabilitation engineering industry, and possess certain scientific research and practical work abilities.
- Be able to provide organizational and planning services, management, and quality control for the workplace after graduation. Be able to participate in and organize team meetings, and have good medical documentation and electronic record-keeping and expression skills.
- Possess the ability to use various information resources and information technology for self-directed learning and research.
- Have the ability to communicate and apply at least one foreign language, and possess computer application skills.
- Have basic skills for scientific physical exercise, meet the national standards for university students' physical, military, and mental health, and have a sound mind and healthy body.
Core Courses
Core courses include:
- Functional Anatomy
- Physiology
- Biochemistry
- Human Kinesiology
- Biomechanics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Electrical and Electronics
- Medical Imaging
- Human Development
- Neurology
- Overview of Clinical Diseases
- C Language Programming
- Principles of Automatic Control
- Matlab Principles and Applications
- Mechanical Drawing
- Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering
- Materials Science
- Prosthetics and Orthotics
- Human Assistive Rehabilitation Devices
- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Equipment
- Fundamentals of Mechanical Principles and Manufacturing Technology
- Mechanical Design
- Principles and Interface Technology of Microcontrollers
- Control and Signal Sources of Human Assistive Devices
- Rehabilitation Function Assessment
- Exercise Therapy
- Kinesiology
- Rehabilitation of Internal and External Diseases
- Rehabilitation Robotics
- Human Factors Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence and Rehabilitation
- 3D Printing and Orthotic Design
Research Directions
Research directions in Rehabilitation Engineering include:
- Rehabilitation Robotics
- Rehabilitation Information Technology
- Rehabilitation Device Materials
- Rehabilitation Engineering Management
Degree Awarded
Graduates of this program are awarded a Bachelor of Rehabilitation Engineering degree.
Career Development
Graduates mainly pursue careers in:
- Clinical rehabilitation engineering technology in hospitals, various rehabilitation institutions, and elderly care and disability assistance institutions.
- Design and research and development in rehabilitation equipment manufacturing companies and research institutions.
- Professional management in enterprises, institutions, and government-related management departments. This major is also very suitable for further studies. Hundreds of well-known universities at home and abroad offer graduate programs in rehabilitation engineering or rehabilitation robotics, and they often prioritize students from this major.
Related Majors
Related majors include:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Prosthetics and Orthotics Engineering
- Clinical Engineering Technology
- Health Science and Technology
Top Universities Offering Rehabilitation Engineering Programs in China
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
- Sanquan College of Xinxiang Medical University
- Jining Medical University
