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Module information
Unit value: 0.5
Year of study: 2
Term: 1 and 2
Course organiser: Adam Gibson, Pilar Garcia Souto, Jennifer Griffiths, Rebecca Yerworth
Purpose
- To teach professional engineering skills
- To associate these skills with realistic problems in biomedical engineering
- To prepare students for biomedical engineering jobs (for example in hospitals, medical equipment companies).
- To teach large-scale problem solving in groups
Current students should see the moodle page for this module.
Note: this module is strictly for B/MEng Biomedical Engineering students only and not available for option/elective selection.
Aims and Objectives
- To be able to describe a medical device in terms of its design and implementation, including aspects of sustainability, risk assessment, costing, etc
- To understand the legal framework in which a biomedical engineer operates
- To understand the processes required for problem solving and gain experience of solving realistic problems in biomedical engineering.
Brief Syllabus
PART 1 – Professional Skills for Biomedical Engineers
Advanced writing, Sustainability, Life-cycle analysis, , Risk assessment, Health and safety, Industrial design, Manufacturing, Costing, Quality/Industry standards, Contract law, Intellectual Property, Liability, Privacy and Medical Ethics.
PART 2 – Scenarios
This module will include four week-long group projects which encourage students to consolidate learning from this and other modules and to engage in problem-solving and engineering design activities.
Teaching and exams
Teaching will consist of lectures, seminars/problem classes etc, and four week-long scenarios. Assessment is by coursework.
Prerequisites
We assume that you have met the minimum entry requirements for our undergraduate degree programmes (i.e. A level Mathematics (grade A preferred), Physics and one other A level at ABB or above, or equivalent). If you feel you meet the prerequisites through a non-standard route, please contact the module organiser.
This module continues from ENGS102P, and is only available to students who have completed that module.
Core Texts
There are no suitable text books for most of this module. Reading material will be provided.