About Biomedical Engineering with a Foundation Year, Foundation Year - at University of Sheffield

A technology driven subject with a focus on enhancing human health and wellbeing, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of core engineering principles applied to the human body and biological systems. Alongside a core biomedical engineering degree course, there is also the option to experience a year in industry.

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.

If you don't have the usual scientific or mathematical background for an engineering degree, a foundation year is for you. After successfully completing the foundation year, you can start a BEng or MEng degree.

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 academic team, composed of industry experts, clinicians and academics, has been teaching biomedical engineering at Sheffield for over a decade. They will show you how both traditional and contemporary engineering principles can be applied to transform healthcare, integrating diverse engineering disciplines to develop innovative solutions that improve health and quality of life.

The BEng offers unparalleled flexibility to allow you to tailor your course to your interests.

By choosing to take an MEng, you’ll be taking a longer period of study with an integrated masters. This extra year allows you to enhance your technical expertise while developing crucial management skills, making you more competitive and better prepared for your future career.

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:

• Biomedical engineering: use engineering principles to help safeguard and enhance human health.
• Medical devices and systems: develop novel devices and improve clinical engineering systems.
• Biomaterials science and tissue engineering: apply materials engineering and cell biology principles to repair damaged body tissues and organs.
• Biomanufacturing: apply chemical engineering and cell biology principles to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other biologically active substances.

In your third year you’ll undertake 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. It also provides valuable experience that enhances your employability and prepares you for your future career.

Accredited by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)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.

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