BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering

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How You Study

In the first year, students can study the common foundations of engineering principles, human anatomy, and the physiology of the human body. In the second year, the focus moves to specialised biomedical engineering topics, while the third year offers career-focused modules designed to support students in meeting the needs of future employers.

Topics include digital prosthetics, biomedical robots for personal care, medical implants, medical imaging, medical ethics, clinical trials, and regulations. Extra-curricular activities are also available through Lincoln Innovation Hub to help students think, innovate, and build while stimulating their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. Students can access a range of support to help develop their skills, ideas, and ventures at any stage of development and across a wide range of disciplines.

The course is delivered through a combination of classroom and lab-based sessions, design challenges, and business innovation and entrepreneurship activities, to help develop the core skills that students will require as future engineers. Students can also benefit from regular visits from professional engineering and industrial experts, offering insight into the needs of the industry.

First Year

• Anatomy and Physiology (Core)
• Biomedical Engineering Project (Core)
• Computing and Programming for Engineers (Core)
• Electrical and Electronic Technology (Core)
• Engineering Mechanics (Core)
• Materials and Methods of Manufacture (Core)
• Mathematical Skills for Engineers (Core)
• Matter and Interactions (Core)

Second Year

• Advanced Biomedical Engineering Project (Core)
• Applied Thermofluids (Core)
• Biomaterials (Core)
• Data Modelling and Simulation (Core)
• Digital Systems And Analog Electronics (Core)
• Kinematics and Biomechanics (Core)
• Mechatronics Systems (Core)
• Solid Body Mechanics (Core)
• Engineering Year in Industry (Option)†

Third Year

• Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (Core)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (Core)
• Individual Project (Bachelor) (Core)
• Bioinformatics and Data Management (Option)†
• Biomedical Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Option)†
• Finite Element Analysis (Option)†
• Internet of Things and Smart Electronics (Option)†
• Orthotics and Prosthetics (Option)†

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

How You Are Assessed

Assessment on the Biomedical Engineering programme focuses on measuring and assessing engineering technical and analytical skills as well as professional soft skills including oral and written communication, team working, lifelong learning, problem-solving, project management, and planning and organisation.

Students are continuously assessed throughout the course through a wide range of assessment methods including examinations, practical reports, project portfolios, individual and group presentations, individual group project work, and computer-based assessment.

How You Study

In the first year, students can study the common foundations of engineering principles, human anatomy, and the physiology of the human body. In the second year the focus moves to specialised biomedical engineering topics, while the third year offers career focused modules designed to support students in meeting the needs of future employers.

Topics include digital prosthetics, biomedical robots for personal care, medical implants, medical imaging, medical ethics, clinical trials, and regulations. Extra-curricular activities are also available through Lincoln Innovation Hub to help students think, innovate, and build while stimulating their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. Students can access a range of support to help develop their skills, ideas, and ventures at any stage of development and across a wide range of disciplines.

The course is delivered through a combination of classroom and lab-based sessions, design challenges, and business innovation and entrepreneurship activities, to help develop the core skills that students will require as future engineers. Students can also benefit from regular visits from professional engineering and industrial experts, offering an insight into the needs of industry.

Biomedical engineering represents a new area of medical research and product development, with biomedical engineers working to pave the way for new methods of helping to treat injuries and diseases. As medicine is a field with vast numbers of specific disciplines, there are many different sub-fields in which biomedical engineers may work. Some work to improve and develop new machinery, such as robotic surgery equipment, while others endeavour to create better, more reliable replacement limbs (or parts which help existing limbs function better, such as joint replacements).

Biomedical engineers may become involved in a multitude of different roles including the design of medical devices, modelling and simulation of human physiology and anatomy, supporting hospitals in clinical and financial governance of existing medical equipment, development of artificial organs, computer-simulated or image-guided surgery, robot-assisted surgery, development of orthopaedic implants, medical imaging, assistive technologies, and mobile and e-health.