Biomedical Engineering with an Industrial Placement Year BEng

Program Overview

The BEng in Bioengineering at Sheffield prepares students to advance medical technologies. Tailored specialisms in biomedical engineering, medical devices, biomaterials, and biomanufacturing allow students to specialize in their interests. The program emphasizes industry collaboration and practical experience through a placement year and individual research project. Graduates are equipped with the skills to innovate and improve human health through engineering solutions.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Be at the forefront of the rapidly growing medical technology sector, learning to save and improve lives through this well-established course. They’ll show you how disciplines from across the field of engineering can be used to heal the human body. We teach you how to give people a healthier and more fulfilling life, using technology like tissue engineering, biotechnology, mechanics and robotics.

• Medical Devices and Systems: develop novel devices and improve clinical engineering systems.
On the placement year, you'll work in an engineering, medical or healthcare company. We have links with world-famous companies such as Siemens, AstraZeneca and Nestlé, who also join us on campus for employability fairs and networking sessions. The final year culminates in an individual project, where you’ll work with an academic on your chosen specialism.

• Top 5 for bioengineering and biomedical engineering in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide - and one of the longest-running biomedical engineering departments in the country.
• Unique, state-of-the-art facilities - use unique biomedical spaces such as the bio mammalian and bio bacteria labs, along with the Microfabrication room, Electronics clean room and the Pilot Plant in The Diamond.
• Broadest choice of specialisms - from your second year, you can choose between four specialisms: Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices and Systems, Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering, or Biomanufacturing.
• Global Engineering Challenge - join teams of students to solve engineering problems in developing countries – pushing you to develop you as a professional engineer and enhancing your career prospects.

Outline:

First Year:

• Core Modules:
• Introduction to Electric and Electronic Circuits (20 credits)
• Modelling, Analysis and Control (20 credits)
• Systems Engineering Mathematics I (20 credits)
• Biomaterials I (10 credits)
• Engineering with Living Systems 1 (10 credits)
• Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (10 credits)
• Materials Under Stress (10 credits)
• Physics of Living Systems 2 (10 credits)
• Tissue Structure and Function (10 credits)
• Global Engineering Challenge Week (10 credits)

Second Year:

• Core Modules:
• Systems Engineering Mathematics II (20 credits)
• Advanced Bioengineering Topics (10 credits)
• Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (10 credits)
• Engineering - You're Hired (10 credits)
• Optional Modules:
• Communication Electronics (20 credits)
• Control Systems Design and Analysis (20 credits)
• Introduction to Mechanical Properties and Structural Materials (20 credits)
• Mechatronics (20 credits)
• Engineering with Living Systems 2 (15 credits)
• Introduction to Pharmaceutical Engineering (15 credits)
• Aspects of Medical Imaging and Technology (10 credits)
• Biology and Chemistry of Living Systems II (10 credits)
• Cell and Molecular Biology (10 credits)
• Biomaterials II (10 credits)

Third Year:

• Core Module:
• Bioengineering Year in Industry (120 credits)

Fourth Year:

• Core Modules:
• Bioengineering Research Project (30 credits)
• Accounting and Law for Engineers (10 credits)
• Managing Engineering Projects and Teams (10 credits)
• Scientific Writing (10 credits)
• Optional Modules:
• Tissue Engineering Approaches to Failure in Living Systems (20 credits)
• Advanced Biochemical Engineering (15 credits)
• Advanced Bioprocess Design Project (15 credits)
• Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (15 credits)
• Materials and Energy (10 credits)
• Environmental Engineering (15 credits)
• Aspects of Medical Imaging and Technology (10 credits)
• Biomechatronics (10 credits)
• Biomedical Instrumentation (10 credits)
• Cell and Molecular Biology (10 credits)
• Design of Medical Devices and Implants (10 credits)
• Digital Signal Processing (10 credits)
• Fluids Engineering (10 credits)
• Hardware-in-the-Loop & Rapid Control Prototyping (10 credits)
• Intelligent Systems (10 credits)
• Materials for Biological Applications (10 credits)
• Mathematics (Computational Methods) (10 credits)
• Mechanics of Deformable Solids (10 credits)
• Principles of Communications (10 credits)
• Bioengineering Careers Seminars (10 credits)
• Robotic Systems (10 credits)
• State-Space Control Design (10 credits)
• System Identification (10 credits)
• Clinical Engineering and Computational Mechanics (10 credits)
• Science of Formulated Products (15 credits)

Assessment:

Students are assessed via a mix of the following:

• Examinations
• Coursework assignments
• Lab work
• Online tests
• Reports
• Group projects
• Presentations
• Design projects
• Dissertations

Teaching:

You'll learn and be taught through:

• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Practical activities
• Coursework assignments (including oral, video and poster presentations)
• Individual Investigative Project (final year)
• Design projects
• Online resources
We invest to create the right environment for you. Other library services include study skills training to improve your grades, and tailored advice from experts in your subject.

Careers:

Our graduates have become professional engineers who design medical instruments, repair body tissue and solve clinical problems through research. They work closely with materials scientists, physicians, dentists, therapists and technologists to help benefit human health. You'll be taught by experts in materials, mechanical, control, electrical, chemical and biological engineering, computer science, medicine and biology. Our research-led teaching produces multi-skilled graduates who can carry on that work.

• You will develop the knowledge and skills employers are looking for by working closely with partners in the healthcare profession and in industry such as Philips, Johnson and Johnson and the NHS.
• Learning and teaching takes place in one of the best biomedical engineering teaching spaces in the UK.