biomedical engineering

good prospects for the future :wink:

Reply 2

chaka

hey, was just wondering if anybody is going to to imperial to do biomedical engineering and also if anyones got any info about it. i got an offer for it but i dotn really knwo much about it coz theres no biomedical engineering graduates from imperial to ask yet...plus it'd be cool to get to know some ppl whore gonna do it.

Oh, it's a new course I think, just introduced recently? :confused:

It sounds cool, but I wouldn't whore for the chance of doing biomed eng :smile:

Reply 3

Mysticmin

Oh, it's a new course I think, just introduced recently? :confused:

It sounds cool, but I wouldn't whore for the chance of doing biomed eng :smile:

2001

Reply 4

shiny

2001

pfft, three years, recent enough.

Reply 5

boonkoh

Mysticmin

pfft, three years, recent enough.

For those of you thinking of reading Biomedical Engineering at Imperial, the department has actually been there since the early 1990's. They only offered PhD's up till 2001, which is when they started introducing BEng degrees. In terms of class sizes, the biomedical engineering department is small... only 40 people enrolled in the first class year. However, out of this 40, only 25 or so continued on to the second year... mostly due to the fact that the course was harder than expected. Be prepared to study real hard if you go.. that's what I heard from several of the current second year students. Many consider it the second hardest course in Imperial.. first would be Medicine.

By the way, anyone know anything about continuing on to Med school after BEng Biomedical? I read on the Imperial website that biomedical engineering is a "fast-track" system to medicine... any ideas? I do know that Imperial Medicine is 5 years... so does that mean you can save time on your med degree?

Reply 6

biomedic

i have to say it's hard... real hard. The percentage of students repeating is amongst the highest in IC. You do a bit of everything. Not very generalized

Reply 7

boonkoh

Biomedic and Chaka... can you both post details about yourself? I'm going to Imperial for Biomed Eng as well, so it would be nice if we could get to know each other beforehand. I'll start off:

Name: Boon
Country born: Malaysia
Country living in: China
School: United World College of South East Asia, Singapore
Age: 18
Interests: Football (Chelsea supporter), computers, mountain biking.

IC offer: 36 points, 776 HL, 5 SL English [I.B. Diploma]

Reply 8

Oh great. <Free time estimation at Imperial drops even more>.

Reply 9

boonkoh

By the way, anyone know anything about continuing on to Med school after BEng Biomedical? I read on the Imperial website that biomedical engineering is a "fast-track" system to medicine... any ideas? I do know that Imperial Medicine is 5 years... so does that mean you can save time on your med degree?

The fast track course is still at least 4 years I'm afraid :rolleyes:

Reply 10

boonkoh

Wait a minute.. isn't the normal med. course 5 years? So the fast track med should be 4 years, rite?

Reply 11

boonkoh

Wait a minute.. isn't the normal med. course 5 years? So the fast track med should be 4 years, rite?

Yep.

Reply 12

chaka

OP

awwwwww man. this course sounds hard. but still...to be an engineer and a surgeon would kick some serious ass. so its too general? ok well...do any girls do it...at all?
anyway i still havent chosen yet...deadlines close though

to boonkoh

name: akshay
nationaliy: british. kinda
country right now: luxembourg
school: european school
age: 17
interests: im not sporty..im a fatass, do jujitsu though. making things like gliders ( small ones that dotn fly)

Reply 13

chaka

awwwwww man. this course sounds hard. but still...to be an engineer and a surgeon would kick some serious ass. so its too general? ok well...do any girls do it...at all?
anyway i still havent chosen yet...deadlines close though

to boonkoh

name: akshay
nationaliy: british. kinda
country right now: luxembourg
school: european school
age: 17
interests: im not sporty..im a fatass, do jujitsu though. making things like gliders ( small ones that dotn fly)

There must be at least one girl on your course. If there are none I'll eat my (theoretical) hat.

Reply 14

biomedic

Yea LOTS of gals are doing it compared with other engineering courses

chaka

awwwwww man. this course sounds hard. but still...to be an engineer and a surgeon would kick some serious ass. so its too general? ok well...do any girls do it...at all?
anyway i still havent chosen yet...deadlines close though

to boonkoh

name: akshay
nationaliy: british. kinda
country right now: luxembourg
school: european school
age: 17
interests: im not sporty..im a fatass, do jujitsu though. making things like gliders ( small ones that dotn fly)

Reply 15

chaka

OP

biomedic..u being sarcy?
oh btw...u at imperial or somthing?

Reply 16

chaka

biomedic..u being sarcy?
oh btw...u at imperial or somthing?

I doubt it. The general rule goes that girls like biology. The medical and biology depts at Imperial are innundated with girls compared to my dept (mech eng) where I'll be one of the minority.

Reply 17

chaka

OP

ah ok. well. i guess that isnt the important thing. still trying to choose two unis out of edinburgh imperial and warick for engineering...have to do it by tomorrow morning

Reply 18