Master of Engineering (Biomedical)

Biomedical engineers bridge the gap between technology, medicine and biology. Within this specialisation, students choose to focus on areas including biomechanical engineering, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biocellular engineering, biosignals, neuroengineering or clinical engineering.

Students also benefit from the high standing of services provided by the University and the School of Engineering for biomedical innovation.

To produce graduates who are both skilled in biomedical engineering principles and have the ability to apply them to complex, open-ended engineering tasks and problems.

The Master of Engineering (Biomedical) consists of 300 points of study - 212.5 points core including Biomedical Engineering Capstone Project plus 87.5 points elective subjects as listed below (at least 50 points must be taken from Biomedical Engineering Electives).

Advanced standing will be awarded for equivalent subjects taken in prior study to applicants on the following basis:

• A maximum of 100 points for applicants with a 4 year Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent.
• A maximum of 100 points for applicants with a 3 year undergraduate degree. Students entering with a three year bachelor degree must complete at least 200 points of study within the Masters of Engineering. In cases where applicants have completed the equivalent of more than 100 points of core masters subjects, discipline specific electives must be taken to fulfil the 200 minimum masters study requirement.

Note: applicants from the University of Melbourne with:

• An appropriate “Engineering System” major will receive 100 points of advanced standing. Applicants who have completed more than 100 points of core subjects in their undergraduate degree will obtain exemption for the cores taken but will need to replace the points in excess of 100 points with elective subjects.
• Engineering breadth sequences (including those in the Bachelor of Commerce) will receive advanced standing to a maximum of 100 points.

Total 300 point - 212.5 points core (compulsory) plus 87.5 points elective subjects from the list below. Students must complete all 300 points of subjects, including all core subjects, or have advanced standing or exemption.

The core and elective subjects are those listed below. The order of subjects below is one way of progressing through the course - students who meet subject requisites may tailor their individual study plan to take into account advanced standing and their study load. Students plan their study on-line; however, Melbourne School of Engineering course advisors are available to assist students with individual study plans.

Suggested first 100 points:

Suggested study plan for first 100 points:

• 87.5 points Core
• 12.5 points Biomedical Science elective from the list below

Core (87.5 points)

Suggested second 100 points:

Suggested study plan for the second 100 points:

• 50 points Core
• 50 points Bioengineering Electives

Core (Total 50 points)

Suggested third 100 points:

Suggested study plan for the third 100 points:

• Core (50 points) including BMEN90027 Biosystems Modelling (students, who are graduating by December 2015, may replace this subject with an approved elective)

• Biomedical Engineering Research project Elective (25 points)

• Approved Electives (25 points).

Core (Total 50 points)

Biomedical Engineering Research Project Elective (25 points)

Students must complete one of the following Biomedical Engineering Capstone Projects

NOTE: BMEN90025 Biomedical Eng Capstone Project A is of year-long duration (continuing subject over two semesters). Students commence this subject in Semester 2 and continue in the consecutive semester (semester 1 in the following year). Upon successful completion of this project, students will receive 25 points credit.

Bioengineering Electives

Total 50 points

Students are encouraged to take two pairs of subjects in the same study area:

• Tissue Engineering & Stem Cells and Soft Matter Engineering
• Computational Genomics and Algorithms for Functional Genomics
• Human Impact & Forensic Biomechanics and Computational Biomechanics
• Medical Imaging and Neural Information Processing

Biomedical Science Elective

Total 12.5 points

Students with a background in Chemistry must take the BIOL10004 elective. Students with a background in Biology must take the CHEM10003 elective.

Approved Electives

Total 25 points

An approved elective is any postgraduate level subject or third-year undergraduate subject.

Students anticipated to graduate in 2015 can have up to 37.5 points approved electives (BMEN90027 Biosystems Modelling can be replaced with an approved elective).

Student may take the following subjects as approved electives:

Note :

1) All students must meet any requisite prior to enrolling in a subject;

2) Students may need written permission from other faculties to enrol in some subjects; please check with the course coordinator of the subject.