Nigerian Institute for Biomedical Engineering®

Welcome to Nigerian Institute for Biomedical Engineering

The Nigerian Institute for Biomedical Engineering, NIBE is a non-governmental organisation representing the biomedical engineering and technology profession and its members in Nigeria and in international organisations, having members numbering over 5,000, initially largely of the various sciences and classical engineering disciplines from universities and hospitals, but more recently from biomedical engineering and technology departments from Nigerian universities and other institutions.

NIBE advocates interdisciplinary scientific and professional biomedical engineering and technology activities within Nigeria between the broad disciplines of biology, medicine and engineering in addition to allied subjects

NIBE is affiliated to International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering , International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine and African Union of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences .

In her 10th Anniversary, during the 10th Annual General Meeting, Thursday 29th October, 2009, Abuja, Nigeria, NIBE streamlined its five functional capacities: as a professional institute, as a learned society, as a regulating body, as a technical authority, and as a qualifying body.

In line with this, NIBE has established both a membership association, Association of Biomedical Engineers and Technologists of Nigeria (NABET), to take over the functions of a professional institute and of a technical body; and a professional college, College of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (CBET), to take over the functions of a learned society and of a qualifying body..

In pursuing the educational qualification and advancement of members, NIBE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria to train its members up to Bachelor of Technology in Biomedical Engineering Technology so as to be educationally qualified to practice biomedical engineering and technology in Nigeria and globally.

NIBE as the coordinating body shall retain the function of a regulating body, and, following the approval of her proposals to government for a regulating body with medical physics, shall regulate the practice of biomedical engineering and technology in Nigeria.