BEng/MEng in Biomedical Engineering (UCAS code BH81)
Biomedical engineering is a rapidly emerging discipline. As a Biomedical Engineer you will work to improve human health by integrating your engineering knowledge with medical science and practice. Our programmes are designed to give you the engineering and biological skills required to develop an understanding of living systems. This will enable you to create new devices, instrumentation and software to advance biology and improve health care.
In the 1st 2 years of the degree you will gain skills in a range of engineering disciplines, anatomy, physiology and applications of engineering in medicine. Then in 3rd and 4th year you will specialise in a specific aspect of biomedical engineering and apply your knowledge in a research project.
We are delighted to announce that both our MEng and BEng degrees are now accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
The IET was formed by the recent merger of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE). With more than 150,000 members worldwide, it is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and the second largest of its type in the world. It has offices in London, Beijing and Hong Kong, with an office in Bangalore opening in late 2006.
Accredited programmes are the preferred and fast-track route if you want to achieve Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. This type of professional registration demonstrates your commitment to professionalism and recognises your skills and experience.
When assessing degree programmes, the IET look at a wide range of issues including:
- Learning outcomes
- Aims and objectives
- Admission standards, progression, award and graduate employment
- Degree structure, syllabuses, assessment and industrial input
- Projects (individual and group)
- Teaching of non-technical subjects and key skills
- Staffing (qualifications, research, publications)
- Resources and facilities (library, computing, laboratories, staff support)
- Quality assurance procedures
An accredited programme is expected to:
- Motivate students towards the practice of engineering and stimulate their learning.
- Be taught in the context of design, so that design provides an integrating theme that exposes students to a blend of analysis and synthesis.
- Present an intellectual challenge, integrating theory with current industrial practice in the context of real engineering applications.
- Provide an awareness of the environmental, social, legal, economic and regulatory contexts within which engineers operate.
- Contribute to the personal and professional development of students, providing a foundation for a wide range of subsequent study and lifelong learning.
- Include a strong and effective industrial input.
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