Bioengineering in Imperial College

Hi, friends,

I m planing to go to IC for my Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Engineering this autumn..

Any one knows whether this course good in IC?

Or any suggestion for me? Thanks a lot! :biggrin:

Reply 1

[R]

heii.. i also got an offer from there.... but i cant decide ne more between that or maths!!! i like them both.. should i choose the one which is easier.. accutally i dont even know which one is easier....
arg.. do u think biomed eng will be hard???? what kinda stuff will we do.. like what kinda jobs do we go into ?

Reply 2

boonkoh

Jobs will not be a problem.. Biomedical Engineers are in short supply throughtout the world... the only worry i would have is whether you will learn enough to prepare you later on in life... after all, the first class was in 2003, and it hasn't been rated by the rating agency in UK.

I have applied for biochemistry with management, and got an offer. However, I asked for a switch to Biomedical Engineering starting Fall 2004, and the admissions tutor said he would look into my UCAS file. The only problem is that I have not done physics in High School, which may prove to be a stumbling block. However, I am enrolling in a 2 month long physics course this summer, so hopefully I will be prepared.

I am wondering what kind of offers any of you got for BEng Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College. My offer for biochemistry with Management was 38 points, 6 in Biology and Chemistry Higher Level, 5 in English Standard Level. This is the International Bacchalaureate program, not A levels. I think its equivalent to A's in biology and Chemistry A level, and a B in English AS? I'm not too familiar with A level system

Reply 3

[R]

hi.. ahh i do the IB aswell.. i sent in my firm and insurance a while ago and i decided to put biomedical engineering down.. im pretty happy with my descision.. well i think they gave me a really hard offer compared to all my other offers, like i can get the points and stuff , but its annoying that its so high even after getting a really good predicted grade.. my overall is 36 points(which is goood!!!) hah with a 7, 7, 6 in HL (the 7s in math n physics.. 6 in chem.. ) and a 5 in english.. i would expect myself to get that but it would have been nice if the offer was lower =s oh well.. at least i got an offer :biggrin:

the thing with ib is that i think ppl dont realise that getting a 6 is amazing, and that getting a 7 is exceptionall.. like slowly unis are starting to recognize that and so i think 6-7 is A, and 5 is a B or suming for A-levels.. not sure bout the resst

yeah... apparently imperial is one of the veryyy few unis in the uk that has this course.. i checked on ucas and the only other uni is sheffield or suming.... i duno if thats good or bad, but i guess its like u said that there will be so less ppl who study the course we'll be 'wanted' lol..

Reply 4

boonkoh

Well, congratulations on getting an offer for biomedical engineering... which school/country are you from? I look forward to seeing you at Imperial if I manage to get a course switch to BME, but I think its unlikely because I haven't done any physics at all in high school. However, I'm hoping that my predicted grades (40 overall) would be good enough.

7 7 6 is really setting a high requirement... thank god I only need to get a 6 6 for mine! I keep telling everyone that getting a 6 is like an A-, but everyone treats it like a B... a 5 is more like a B...

Reply 5

Light

I very seriously considered this course over Comp Sci at Imperial. I am working at QinetiQ for a gap year and working on two projects - fetal ECG / EEG [ see : http://www.imperial.ac.uk/P4361.htm ]. I have really enjoyed working with my 'group' there, which has involved working on many small things mainly involving C++ programming. This has involved implementing quite a few algorithms ( signal separation / filtering / classification) and worrying about computational efficiency.

Quite a number of the people I work with complain a lot about how their university course(s) ( mainly Physics ) didn't seem particularly relevant for the working environment they are in now, and many have said that looking back, they would have been better off taking a subject like Eng / Comp Sci... but if you know that you want to work in a field like mine just now, then I'm sure you couldn't be better prepared for it !

The only reason I decided about comp sci over this course is that I have always been particularly interested in implementing things in computers and don't want to specialise so much just yet...