B.Eng. Medical Engineering (Hons)

In Year 1, not only do you study the technical topics such as mechanics, design and thermodynamics, but you develop the key broader transferable skills of communication and teamwork. All first-year students are also given practical training in standard workshop and laboratory practice.

• Mathematics
• Materials and Statics
• Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Electronic Instrumentation 1
• Experimental and Transferrable Skills
• Design and Component Production
• Solid Mechanics 1

In Year 2, the programme allows you to specialise, with modules including Human Biology and Biomechanics, alongside core mechanical engineering modules.

• Biomechanics
• Human Biology
• Electronic Instrumentation 2
• Solid Mechanics 2
• Design Project
• Control
• Numerical and Experimental Methods

We have long-established links with major medical engineering-related companies and organisations such as GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Smith & Nephew, Philips UK Healthcare, Siemens, Elekta, QinetiQ/DSTL, the Transport Research Laboratory and the National Health Service. Our success rate in placing students is very high.

In Year 3, your studies cover a range of applied medical engineering areas, plus a group design project, individual research project and management studies. Recent examples of projects include ‘Tissue engineering for bone grafts’, ‘Designing a syringe pump’ and ‘Assessment of the effects of electric fields on human bone cell growth’.

• Group Design Project
• Final-Year Project (BEng only)
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Clinical Rehabilitation
• Engineering Management
• Engineering Materials
• Control and Dynamics