Silesian University of Technology Faculty of Biomedical Engineering – wide offer for future biomedical engineers

The Biomedical Engineering appeared as an academic discipline at Polish universities five years ago. Since that time, many young people have chosen it as their future profession. A few hundreds have already received the engineer degree. Most of them decided to continue their education to become Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering. The Silesian University of Technology has been providing courses in Biomedical Engineering since 2007. Currently, on each of the four years of studies 60-100 students participate in various available courses. The education process started at the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, and now continues within the new Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, the first and only in Poland at the moment. Knowledgeable and experienced professors, wide spectrum of cooperating medical, industrial and academical units and freshly equipped labs allow to provide the offer of modern studies in a challenging and interdisciplinary domain. The paper presents various aspects of biomedical engineering as it was in past and as it is today. A brief presentation of its history, educational offer, cooperating entities and infrastructural facilities as well as a summary of experiences after four years of studies and a short review of the research are included.