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Study Details: MSc 2 years full-time
Biomedical Engineering is a technical discipline that connects areas of technology, biology and medicine . It focuses on research and development for health care and clinical practices.
Biomedical engineering involves the application of technology in health care and medicine. Health care is developing rapidly, people remain healthy longer, and illnesses can be cured more frequently. Technology plays a key role in prevention, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation and care. This encompasses a wide range of activities, including tissue engineering to increase the "friendliness" of implants in the body, 3-D imaging of organs and development of rehabilitation aids and advanced home care systems.
Biomedical Engineering thrives by professionals who can think and work at an academic level, to solve the problems faced by those who provide or require health care. An essential aspect of this involves understanding the role and experience of patients, doctors and paramedics.
At the start of the master programe Biomedical Engineering, each student selects a field of science and a corresponding research group. This choice defines the obligatory courses, which are supplemented by optional courses. The resulting course package has to be approved by the thesis committee prior to the course start. This way each student has his own, tailor made master programe.
Specializations:
The general requirements for admission to a Master programme are:
– A relevant BSc degree (or equivalent) based on a programme of sufficient academic level and quality to be able to complete the MSc degree course you intend to pursue at the University of Twente.
– For applicants whose mother tongue is a language other than English:
1.Academic IELTS, overall band score of at least 6.5.
2.TOEFL, internet based (TOEFL-iBT) of at least 90. Please note that we do not accept “Institutional TOEFL” tests except for the one organized and certified by the Netherlands Education Support Office in Jakarta
3. Nationals of the People’s Republic of China please note: A “NUFFIC-certificate” must be sent to the University of Twente as proof of validity of your qualifications. In order to obtain the NUFFIC-certificate you will need to take the IELTS test or an internet based TOEFL (TOEFL-iBT). Note that, as of 1 June 2010, certificates will be issued by the Nuffic in the Hague instead of The Netherlands Education Support Office in Beijing. For more information go to http://www.nesochina.org/chinese-students/information-in-english/nuffic-certificate.
4. Indonesian students should take their TOEFL test at one of the centres recognized by the NEC (Netherlands Education Support Offices) in Indonesia. A list of NEC registered centres in Indonesia can be found on the website: http://www.nesoindonesia.or.id.
Please note that exclusively nationals from the USA, U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are exempted from the English test requirement.
– Have sufficient funds to finance your degree.
– Comply with the extra admission conditions. For this course please see http://www.utwente.nl/master/international/bme/admission/
2012-2013 Statutory Tarrif full time €1771 Institutional rate full time €12650
At start of the Master’s programme, the student has to choose:
– a Master’s track,
– a research group (liated to the programme) to graduate at,
– a set of elective courses conform curriculum demands.
Curriculum demands
The total programme consists of minimally 120 EC:
– 15 EC compulsory courses (track-specific)
– 45 EC elective courses or projects
– 15 EC external traineeship
– 45 EC Master’s assignment (a research project at chosen research group).
Elective courses
Every research group strongly recommend some courses to include in the free curriculum space (elective courses). Often, this concerns the main courses, provided by this group (often B-courses) and some supportive engineering courses. The professor of the chosen research group has to approve the student’s curriculum and have to comprise:
– min. 15 EC of biomedical engineering courses (B-courses)
– min. 10 EC of biomedical courses (M-courses)
– max. 20 EC of additional courses
Homologation programme
Additionally, a homologation programme (15 EC) is required for side-continuates and former HBO-students. This programme is replacing the external traineeship (HBO-students) or a part of the “additional” elective courses (academic side-continuates) and comprises the following courses:
1.Biological systems in relation to human movement 5 EC
2.Molecular cell biology 5 EC
3.Health care organisation and technology 5 EC
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