To train professionals in Biomedical Engineering with a sense of responsibility, attitudes, and values that contribute to technological development, research, and extension and to increase the efficiency of health care processes through the conjunction of medical areas, exact sciences, administration, and hospital conservation.

To enter the IPN, applicants will demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to pursue higher education studies, regardless of the area of knowledge they wish to enter.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AREA

• Verbal reasoning.
• Mathematical reasoning.
• Spanish: reading comprehension, grammar.
• Basic mathematics.
• Basic biology.
• Basic physics.
• Basic chemistry.
• History.
• Philosophy.
• Administration and quality.
• Socio-economic environment of Mexico.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AREA

• Physics for the area of engineering and mathematical physical sciences.
• Background in physics.
• Statics.
• Kinematics.
• Dynamics.
• Properties of matter.
• Thermodynamics.
• Electrostatics.
• Electrodynamics.
• Electrochemical sources.
• Electromagnetism.
• Engineering mathematics.
• Arithmetic and algebra.
• Geometry and trigonometry.
• Analytic geometry.
• Differential calculus.
• Integral calculus.
• Probability and statistics.

LANGUAGE AREA

English: Reading comprehension.

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge in the exact sciences, with critical analytical sense in the approach and resolution of problems. Solid academic bases in the areas of physics-mathematics and medical-biological. Knowledge of the English language. Orientation and fundamentals in the social and humanistic sciences.

SKILLS

• Be able to communicate correctly in an oral, written, and assertive manner.
• Ability to deduce and integrate knowledge.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Understanding, handling, and application of information formulated in different languages: graphic, symbolic and computational; as well as reading comprehension of English.
• Manual skills for laboratory work with specialized instruments.

ATTITUDES AND VALUES

• Ethics.
• Responsibility.
• Honesty.

Knowledge

• Design, develop, innovate, adapt and maintain in optimal conditions medical equipment in the area of health in the public and/or private sector at the level of:

  1. Prevention of pathological entities.
  2. Diagnosis of pathological entities.
  3. Therapy of pathological entities.

• Design, develop, innovate, adapt and maintain in optimal conditions instruments, equipment, installations, and/or machinery used in medical-biological research at the following levels:

  • Basic.
  • Applied (clinical).

• Design, develop, innovate, adapt and maintain in optimal conditions materials, instruments, equipment, and/or machinery used in the teaching of medical-biological sciences: basic biological sciences, medical-biological sciences with application in humans, and medical-biological sciences with application in animals.

Skills

Select, transform and conserve:

• Materials of a diverse nature that serve as: prostheses or orthoses parts or accessories of prostheses or instruments or accessories used in the health care process.

• To conserve in an integral way physical units of health care; designing and instrumenting:

  • Equipment and facilities corrective maintenance areas.
  • Preventive maintenance programs for equipment and facilities.
  • Equipment replacement programs.
  • Facility modernization programs.

● Select, acquire, install and/or maintain:

• instruments equipment and/or machinery used in the health care process at the level of:

  • prevention diagnosis and therapy.
  • Ability to transform theoretical and experimental elements in research and teaching.

Attitudes and Values

• Participate in an interdisciplinary manner in the design of instruments, equipment, and facilities for the management and control of contaminants generated in physical health care units such as: liquid waste, solid waste, and contaminants due to radioactive sources.
• Participate in an interdisciplinary manner in the design of physical health care units at the levels of prevention, diagnosis, and/or therapy of nosological entities such as: medical centers, hospital units, clinics, consulting rooms, laboratories, ambulances, and support workshops.

Contribution to the Resolution of National Priorities.

The professional practice of the Biomedical Engineer of UPIBI-IPN will have an impact on:

• The conformation of scientific technical cadres for the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of equipment and physical plants used in the health care process.
• The development of projects that activate a conservation and maintenance industry that allows the recycling of biomedical equipment that is out of use due to lack of parts and spare parts.
• Optimization of the use of the current health care physical plant.
• The design and implementation of standardization processes for the biomedical instrumentation used by the Health Sector.
• Interdisciplinary participation in the formulation of criteria for the acquisition of biomedical technology that best suits the country's social, economic, and technological conditions.
• The generation of technical and legal norms for the use of the manufacture of biotechnological instruments and materials.
• The generation of technical and legal standards for the construction of physical health care plants.
• The formation of a small and medium industry generating biomedical engineering goods and services.
• Interdisciplinary participation in the generation of regional planning criteria in the area of health care.
• The formalization of a tradition of technological development in the area of biomedical engineering that starts from the conception of the product and concludes in the release of a technological package integrated by manufacturing procedures, technology transfers, necessary plant diagrams, etc…

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

The biomedical engineer who graduated from UPIBI is currently working in hospital design, hospital administration, and health technology administration, as well as in the development of hospital projects in technological management in clinical engineering. Biomedical engineering, today, is the career that in its exercise uses the knowledge of both natural sciences and engineering for high performance in the health area, executing what a doctor or an electronic, which has represented the advancement of innovative instruments and medical equipment.

• Hospital needs to resort to Biomedical Engineering, since knowledge of engineering and medical sciences make an interface between these two important branches to maximize the operation of a hospital, tending to innovate, design, adapt, select and conserve equipment, instruments, and materials used in health care processes, as well as participate in an interdisciplinary manner in the design, construction, operation and conservation of physical health care facilities with a prospective vision to the technological and human requirements that allow offering high-quality health services.
• Another aspect of the activity is the incorporation of basic and applied research projects in national and international institutions aimed at improving health processes.
• The engineer is also incorporated in companies that offer equipment and technology services in electromedicine, bioinstrumentation, and clinical engineering.
• Another important aspect is the creation, operation and management of bioindustries, as well as involvement in the administration and optimization of hospital equipment and facilities.
• Occupational field trends point towards the application of knowledge of cutting-edge technologies such as imaging, network systems, medical informatics, medical physics, and innovation in technological, organizational, and systems management.

Check the list of subjects, credits and total hours of the program in:

• UPIBI