Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate (LM-21)
- Degree Class: LM-21 Biomedical Engineering
- Duration:
- Training credits (CFU): 120
- Delivery language: Italian / English (new address)
- Access mode: Free, with verification of initial preparation
- Location: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Reflecting the professional and research experience of our professors, the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering trains professionals capable of designing, developing, evaluating and managing advanced technologies – including artificial intelligence systems – for:
- the well-being of the person;
- the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and to alleviate their symptoms;
- the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation or compensation of injuries or disabilities;
- to improve human-machine interaction in clinical, industrial and everyday settings.
The program integrates engineering, medical and humanistic skills and includes an important practical component, such as laboratories for the design of medical devices and assistive technologies, laboratories at the Fondazione Policlinico Univeristario Campus Bio-Medico, and those of nanotechnology and tissue engineering.
The teaching is divided into three common areas of training (biomedical engineering, biomedical disciplines, humanities and law), and four areas of specialized knowledge, chosen by the student: biomedical engineering for global health and artificial intelligence, biorobotics and ergonomics, clinical engineering, nanotechnologies and bioartificial systems.
Laboratories and research infrastructures at the service of teaching
Over the past two years, the Faculty and the University have made significant infrastructural investments in research and teaching laboratories, used across the 4 training paths. Among these, the latest in chronological order:
- A multimedia laboratory with 40 workstations, equipped with computing stations with the software needed for programming and designing medical and robotic devices
- A new engineering teaching laboratory with 40 workstations, where students will be able to carry out practical activities from the first semester
- A new simulation center with immersive reality laboratories, which allow students to work in environments that are faithful reproductions of clinical ones, and in advanced scenarios for emergencies and urgency
- A new teaching laboratory for chemistry and biomaterials
- Laboratories and technological platforms for prototyping and manufacturing (numerical control machines, laser cutting, welding and assembly, 3D printers
Biomedical Engineering (L-8)
The Biomedical Engineering Degree Course (class L 8) is offered entirely in English and was designed to train a professional who is able to fit into highly differentiated and rapidly evolving production realities, such as those in the biomedical sector. The professional profile that the degree course intends to train is that of a professional able to operate in the public and private sectors to cover roles at the level of junior designer and expert user of biomedical technologies. The educational path also allows students to continue their studies with access to Master's Degrees or University Masters in order to deepen their skills through highly qualified courses in specific fields.
The Degree Course uses engineering methodologies and technologies to describe, understand and solve problems of medical-biological interest through a close interdisciplinary collaboration between the Departmental Faculties of Engineering and Medicine and Surgery of the University. The interaction with the environment, the engineering of new materials, prostheses and artificial organs, biomedical equipment and instruments, the treatment of biomedical images and signals, ICT applications, represent an essential contribution to progress by stimulating important investments and creating job opportunities. The initial part of the educational path (I and II year) is strongly oriented towards a basic preparation, in which the student acquires the essential elements of the scientific disciplines which constitute the indispensable foundations of Engineering studies. The basics of mathematics, physics and chemistry are accompanied, in the first year, by the teaching of Physiology and anatomy (provided by teachers of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery) which constitutes the foundation for the specific contents of subsequent biomedical engineering courses. In the final part of the course (III year), students are provided with up-to-date tools and methods for solving analysis/design problems relevant to Biomedical Engineering. The methodological rigor of the setting of the basic teachings is aimed at developing the student's aptitude for logical-scientific reasoning.
Among the didactic activities, as for all the Degree and Master's Degree Courses of the University, there are teachings that aim to provide the conceptual tools, borrowed from ethical, deontological, epistemological and historical-philosophical principles and methods, which contribute to the formation of a critical spirit of the student.
The presence of teaching laboratories and research laboratories allows the student to carry out experimental training activities that integrate the theoretical knowledge acquired through institutional teachings.