Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

Biomedical Engineering - International Master's Student-Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Contact

Head of the Degree Programme: Jari Hyttinen
Faculty Secretary: Riitta Myyryläinen
Study Coordinator: Juha Nousiainen, Touko Apajalahti

Learning outcomes

- Students are able to identify and formulate challenges in the biomedical and health science domains that can be taken on by biomedical engineers.
- Students are able to work as members of multidisciplinary teams and to apply advanced methodologies at the interface between engineering and health sciences.
- Students are able to apply engineering expertise to the design of devices, systems, algorithms, software, models, materials, methods or processes in order to meet the desired functional and regulatory requirements for the commercialization of medical products.
- Students are able to design and carry out a research plan to test hypotheses, to analyze and interpret the results in the context of the research, and to report the results according to scientific principles.
- Students are able to communicate effectively in both oral and written form, to participate in social debates pertaining to technology, to carry out independent and multidisciplinary team work, to perform project management duties, and to understand the societal impact of engineering solutions.
- After achieving the learning outcomes, students will possess the requirements for pursuing a postgraduate degree and the desire to pursue lifelong learning.

Structure

Common Core Studies, 20 cr

Learning outcomes

- To make sure that the students possess adequate basic knowledge on biomedical engineering for major subject studies
- To make sure that students possess adequate basic knowledge on engineering mathematics, electrical engineering, material science, and computer science for further studies.

Compulsory courses

If the student has taken in the BSc degree studies a course that is equivalent with any of the mandatory courses below, that course must be replaced with a supplemental course or more advanced course. In that case, contact the programme coordinator.

Course Credit points Class
BME-1016   Human Anatomy and Physiology 6 cr I  
BME-1116   Physics of the Human Body 4 cr I  
BME-1157   Biomedical Engineering: Signals and Systems 2 cr I  
BME-1167   Biomedical Engineering: Biomaterials 2 cr I  
BME-1177   Biomedical Engineering: Research and Productization 2 cr I  
BME-1186   Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course 4 cr I  
Total 20 cr  

Supplemental courses

The list is of recommended supplemental courses and can be extended with other supporting or advanced courses. Contact the programme coordinator.

Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (20)

Course Credit points Class
ASE-1256   Introduction to Control and Automation 6 cr I  
KIE-1056   Finnish for Beginners 1 3 cr I  
MAT-31096   Matrix Algebra 1 5 cr I  
MAT-33317   Statistics 1 4 cr I  
MAT-33506   Differential equations 5 cr I  
MAT-41156   Algebra 1 5 cr I  
OHJ-1106   Programming I 4 cr I  
OHJ-1156   Programming II 5 cr I  
SGN-1159   Introduction to Signal Processing, long version 5 cr I  
SGN-6058   Introduction to Biology of the Cell 3 cr I  

Additional information

If the students study plan differs from that described above, the study plan must be approved by the programme.


Major Studies

Study block Credit points
Biomaterials 35 cr
Medical Informatics 35 cr
Medical Instrumentation 35 cr
Medical Physics 35 cr


Minor Studies

Study block Credit points
Biomaterials 25 cr
Biomeasurements 25 cr
Biomedical Engineering 25 cr
Biotechnology 25 cr
Computational Systems Biology 25 cr
Industrial Management 25 cr
Materials Research 25 cr
Mathematics 25 cr
Micromachines 25 cr
Nanotechnology 25 cr
Physics 25 cr
Plastics and Elastomers 25 cr
Signal Processing 25 cr

Students who have their major in Biomaterials can not choose Biomaterials as their minor. Students who have their major in Medical Informatics, Medical Instrumentation or Medical Physics can not choose Biomedical Engineering as their minor.


Elective Studies, 10 cr

The student can freely choose the courses he/she wants to study. Also internship is approved 5 credits, at the maximum.


Master's Thesis (30 cr)

Learning outcomes

- The master's thesis is an extensive treatise, which trains the student for independent study and research, mastery of scientific methods, the convention of references, and the scientific mode of presentation in a good literary form. The average time to complete the thesis is 6 months.

Additional information

In connection with the thesis, student has to write a maturity test, which is an essay written on a topic related to the thesis. The test demonstrates the student's command of the thesis topic.


Documents

curriculum-bme.pdf

Last modified28.03.2012