Bachelor Thesis - Quality and Reliability of Gas Filters in Ventilators

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers. 

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

Bachelor Thesis project for 2 in VCT Sense & Control at Getinge, Solna, Sweden 

Background

At Getinge, our passion is to ensure that every person and community has access to the best possible care, offering hospitals and life science institutions products and solutions that aim to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. Every day we collaborate to make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives. All our employees make a real difference every day.

Are you looking for an inspiring environment for your thesis project? You just found it.

Our Solna site is in an exciting and intensive phase of change, and we are now looking for you who would like to execute your thesis project in our Value Creation Team Sense & Control. The group consists of 10 employees in the R&D organization.

The assignment

A ventilator is a medical device that assists patients in breathing by delivering oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, especially when they cannot breathe adequately on their own. Inside and attached to the ventilator there are several gas-filters for various purposes, such as gas-flow sensing and gas quality control. The quality of these filters is of vital importance for the ventilation functions and patient safety. The assignment requires hands-on work and provide good chance to learn instrumentation, measurement precision, error analysis and laboratory set ups. Our team has close cooperation with assembly lines and suppliers, there will be good chance to learn the connection between R&D and industry process.

In this project there are several aspects to be studied and explored:

• Understand the gas-flow dynamics through a filter.
• Establish a quality parameter for the filters.
• Set up laboratory test to evaluate the quality of several types of filters.
• Set up laboratory test to evaluate the reliability of filters.
• Understand the practical aspects of industry testing tool and propose solutions, possibly automatic test.
• Documentation for bachelor thesis.

Your qualifications:

• Current enrollment in a bachelor’s program going for a degree in Physics or Engineering fields such electronics, mechanics, medical technology, or any similar field.
• Interest in hands-on work in a lab.
• Interest in instrumentation, automation and practical set-ups.
• Interest in medical technology and sensors.
• Social and willing in corporations with colleagues.
• Ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in English.

Number of students: 2

Preferred start date: in beginning of 2026 upon agreement.

Number of credits: 2x15 hp:

Result of the thesis work should be documented in a report in English. A presentation should be given both in school and at Getinge.

Why should you apply?

Getinge is a leading MedTech company on an exciting transformation journey constantly looking for new ways to innovate together with our customers to meet the healthcare challenges of the future.

This is an exciting opportunity for you who aspire to work in MedTech in the future and in an environment that is characterized by great care for the end customer, high pace, continuous learning and improvement.

Welcome with your application no later than 2026-01-31. Please not that we do not accept applications via email. For questions, please contact Lars-Erik Hoffsten : lars-erik.hoffsten@getinge.com

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.