TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.1 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING IN FINLAND

1.2 PURPOSE OF STUDY

1.3 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

1.3.1 Ragnar Granit Institute

1.3.2 Theses in Biomedical Engineering

1.4 IMPLEMENTATION OF STUDY

1.4.1 Compiling the sample

1.4.2 Questionnaire

1.4.3 Timing and replying

2.1 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING IN DEGREE PROGRAMME

2.2 PROFESSIONAL SUBJECT COMBINATIONS

2.3 GRADUATION TIME AND AGE

3.1 BASIC INFORMATION

3.1.1 Name and sex

3.1.2 Year of graduation

3.1.3 Thesis workplace

3.1.4 Number of years in the profession

3.1.5 Number of employers

3.2 EMPLOYMENT SITUATION AFTER GRADUATION

3.2.1 Placement in working life after graduation

3.2.2 Nature of first employment

3.2.3 Correspondence between first job and education

3.2.4 Significance of Biomedical Engineering for acquiring the first job

3.2.5 Connection of Biomedical Engineering with the first job

3.2.6 First employer

3.3 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT SITUATION

3.3.1 Nature of current employment

3.3.2 Position in the current organization

3.3.3 Correspondence between current job and education

3.3.4 Significance of Biomedical Engineering for acquiring the current job

3.3.5 Connection of Biomedical Engineering with the current job

3.3.6 Current employer

3.3.7 Area of assignments and responsibilities

3.3.8 Working abroad&

3.3.9 Own enterprise

3.4 EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION

3.4.1 Areas of expertise required at work

3.4.2 Capabilities provided by the Master of Science in Engineering education for the areas of expertise

3.4.3 Fields of science and technology required at work

3.4.4 Postgraduate degrees in technology

3.4.5 Other degrees

3.4.6 Verbal feedback

4.1 STUDENTS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

4.2 QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY

4.3 DEFICIENCIES IN QUESTIONNAIRE AND ARRANGEMENTS

1. Respondents’ job titles and areas of assignments and responsibilities.

2. Correspondence between the capabilities provided by the M.Sc.(Eng.) education at TUT and the skills required at work by area of expertise for those who had submitted their Master’s thesis to Ragnar Granit Institute, for all those graduated in the 1990’s and all those graduated in the 1980’s.

3. Distribution of answers to the questionnaire point concerning the significance of the fields of science and technology required for the current job.

4. Distribution of answers to the questionnaire point concerning the significance of the fields of science and technology required for the current job.

5. Questionnaire (translation of the Finnish original).

6. Master’s, Licentiate and Doctoral theses submitted to Ragnar Granit Institute.

7. Ragnar Granit instituuttiin tehdyt diplomityöt, lisensiaatintutkimukset ja väitöskirjat

8. Instruction provided by Ragnar Granit Institute.