Biomedical Engineering with an Industrial Placement Year

This course prepares you to be at the forefront of the rapidly growing medical technology sector, developing your skills and knowledge to create innovative solutions that can save and improve lives.

This well-established course helps you build a strong foundation in engineering principles, while equipping you with the skills to design, innovate, and improve medical technologies. You’ll gain hands-on experience and knowledge that will empower you to make a real impact through advanced biomedical solutions.

Our expert team, composed of industry professionals, clinicians and academics, will show you how engineering principles can transform healthcare, by integrating diverse disciplines to develop innovative solutions that enhance health and wellbeing.

The course offers unparalleled flexibility to allow you to tailor your course to your interests. Your first year gives an introduction to bioengineering, at the end of which you’ll begin to broadly tailor the course towards a specialism, by choosing one of the following four specialisms for the rest of the course:

The final year involves undertaking an individual project, where you’ll collaborate closely with an academic expert in your chosen specialism. This project allows you to apply your knowledge and skills to a real-world challenge, exploring your area of interest in depth.

You’ll have the opportunity to put your knowledge and skills into practice with a year-long industry placement, gaining invaluable real-world experience. On the placement year, you'll have the chance to work in an engineering, medical or healthcare company. It'll provide valuable experience that enhances your employability and prepares you for your future career.

You’ll receive comprehensive support and advice from our dedicated Industrial Placement Year team to help you find the right opportunity.

Many of our students have secured placements with leading companies, gaining hands-on experience and industry insights. 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.

Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer and partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.