BioDesign Innovation

BioDesign Innovation is a “real world” course in creating successful medical devices. The course is given over two semesters of one academic year and is composed of frontal lectures, practical training, and a guided project. The first semester focusses on identifying clinical needs, brainstorming and concept creation. The second semester focusses on concept development and business implementation. Teams of 2-3 students from engineering disciplines will team up with business students and with people from medical and law backgrounds to conceive and design an innovative medical device, taking it through all steps of development. The students in the teams will complete

学习生物医学产品设计与创新流程。

• 1Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to complete a technical project
• 2Search, analyse and document clinical practice, engineering science and relevant literature in order to determine the need for further research and development in a chosen clinical area
• 3Devise a methodology of investigation to research and apply established theories to an interdisciplinary body of knowledge and practice
• 4Collect and analyse a range of data (both qualitative and quantitative) to analyse critically, reflect on and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in a chosen topic
• 5Build a device or write software that helps to technologically address a clinical need
• 6Develop a business plan, including market overview, regulation and reimbursement strategies and intellectual property (IP) strategies
• 7Write a project report that follows good engineering science practice
• 8Present oral presentations of the findings of the investigation to an specialist and non-specialist audiences.