Biomedical Engineering with a Year Abroad Imperial

Overview

Students at the Biomedical Engineering with a Year Abroad degree from Imperial follow a compulsory programme of study for the first two years, covering foundational engineering topics such as mathematics, computing, electronics and mechanics and develop your understanding of the human body.

Quick Facts:

• The first two years are designed to ensure that all students achieve a common breadth and depth of knowledge. You will also follow a module developing your design skills and professional practice. At the end of the second year you will have a broad knowledge base which will provide a platform for specialisation.

In the third and fourth years, you choose modules tailored to your interests and can specialise in one of four pathways:

• Biomedical Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

• Computational Bioengineering

Optional modules are available from other departments of the Faculty of Engineering. In this case you will attend the same lectures and take the same assessments as the senior year students in the hosting department. This confirms that the first two years have provided a solid platform for specialisation. The knowledge, understanding and skills that you acquire throughout the Faculty will be translated into a Bioengineering themed final year individual project.

• In the third year you are also required to select an I-Explore module hosted outside of the department so that you will be taught alongside students from other degree programmes. These modules include business and management modules as well as other topics outside the Bioengineering discipline that will allow you to apply your knowledge in a new context.
• Our degrees will not only prepare you for a career in the rapidly growing field of bioengineering, but also provide a technical foundation for careers in mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, materials engineering and medical physics. Some graduates also launch their own startup companies, whilst others apply to enter graduate medical programmes.

Recent graduates of the Department have become:

• Graduate Engineer, Orthopaedic and neurosurgery company

• GSK Future Leaders Programme, GSK

• Biomedical Imaging Scientist, Medtech company

• Trainee Clinical Bioinformatician, NHS

• PhD student, Francis Crick Institute

Accreditation

This degree is professionally accredited by the following organisations on behalf of the Engineering Council:

• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)

• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)

• Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)