Raimo Lamminen, Technical Assistant at Ragnar Granit Institute, for retrieving the study data of the Masters of Science in Engineering included in the study from the archive, for posting the questionnaires, feeding the data into the database, and for maintaining the database;

Jaakko Ruohtula, Head of Division at Tampere University of Technology, for collating the Masters of Science in Engineering who had studied Biomedical Engineering from the University files;

Hannu Eskola, Associate Professor at Ragnar Granit Institute, and Juha Nousiainen, Associate Professor at Ragnar Granit Institute, for numerous valuable comments during the initial phase of the study and especially during the preparation of the report;

Mika Isotalo, Design Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, and Mika Lehtinen, Patent Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, for their contribution in designing the questionnaire;

Eila Pajarre, Research Assistant at the Institute of Industrial Management, for her assistant during the initial phase of the study;

Lea Pelto, Administrative Secretary at Tampere University of Technology, and Sirpa Syrjänen, Head of Office at Tampere University of Technology, for their assistance in examining the University statistics and for the interest they expressed in our study.