Medical engineering belongs in accordance with international studies to ten top technologies of the 21st century. As an important economic factor in the prospering high tech area it offers excellent future chances for the job market. It develops together with medical partners and patients new procedures to the avoidance, recognition and treatment of illnesses and moves this in efficient devices. The course of studies for the shaping to the medical engineer connects lectures from the area of the medical technology, the medicine, biology, physics with offers from the information and communication technology, however, also from the economic area. As an interdisciplinary invested course of studies he is directed on the needs of new challenges in the job market. The research projects orientate themselves by 6 mega trends towards the lasting development, support and conversion of innovation-strategical measures in the health service: technological change, demographic rebuilding and change, globalisation and europeanisation, increase of chronic and psychic illnesses, increase of the health and illness expenses as well as the individuation of the life-styles. The non-consecutive course of studies is based on the knowledge and abilities of different Bachelor's ends and extends this individually. As a connection between medical and technical specialists a very wide working sphere discloses to the medical engineer.
An essential part of apprenticeship and research occurs in narrow cooperation with both biggest medical centres in Cottbus, the Carl Thiem Medical Centre and the Sana Heart Centre as well as the Helios Medical Centre Bad Saarow, the Landesrettungschule of Brandenburg, to the Tumour Centre of  Brandenburg and numerous other regional partners. Crossing associations like the DPGA (German- Polish Health Academy), lawyers with long-standing experience and main focuses belong among others the Ambulant Centre for Lung Diseases and Sleeping Medicine Cottbus (AZLS), all over Germany engaged networks, like the DGTelemed (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Telemedizin e.V.), lawyers with long experiences it in the health right as well as industrial partners.