Educational goals

The objective of the degree course is to produce professionals able to operate independently, at the planning, construction and management level, in the field of bio-medical engineering or bioengineering. By the end of the course, graduates will be able to identify, analyse, report on and resolve the main problems that arise in the sector; further, they will be able to build a flexible career that keeps pace with developments in technology. To this end, the course programme is structured to provide students with a grounding in physics, mathematics and engineering (electronics, information technology and robotics) as well as modules, e.g. biomedical instruments, information technology and medicine, clinical engineering and biomedical technologies. The teaching is both theory-based and practical, including extensive sessions of laboratory work. This approach provides students a solid theoretical and methodological foundation in order to furnish them with a lasting knowledge which also forms the basis for further learning once the degree course has ended. The eventual career progression of graduates in bioengineering is taken into account when designing the course modules. These include industrial producers and/or suppliers of systems and machinery, materials and/or software for: diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation; public and private hospitals; national health service organisations; service companies for the management of machinery and medical equipment or telemedicine services. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required for further study at Masters level.

Career opportunities

Advanced nations face a dilemma: containing spending on health while also improving public services. New technologies will play a strategic role in solving the problems provided that there are enough competent, well-educated professionals on hand. An interdisciplinary course of engineering and biomedical sciences is justified by the requests that emerge from private companies and public health bodies. The natural field of work for Bioengineering graduates is in the health service and companies who operate in the biomedical technologies, pharmacology and medical IT sectors. Clinical engineers who oversee the running of biomedical instruments in health organisations are an ever-growing group. No less important are biomedical engineers who run biomedical databases and their use in clinical practices, making the most of appropriate analysis methods and multimedia presentations. As for the industrial sector, Italy is characterised by production enterprises of various sizes across the whole country but with a greater concentration in the north. In recent years, these companies have tended to employ engineers with specialist skills in the biomedical sector rather than engineering graduates from other backgrounds

Admission requirements

To access and successfully attend the bachelor's degree program, specific knowledge in mathematics and English language is considered indispensable, details of which will be specified in the Didactic Regulations of the degree course. Moreover, a good basic knowledge of physics and chemistry is deemed important. The Faculty offers students intending to enroll a test (entrance exam), the outcome of which assesses the student's overall competence in the aforementioned areas. Specifically concerning mathematics and English language, the same test determines any knowledge deficit of the student. For students with deficits, the Faculty organizes remedial courses with subsequent assessment and provides study tools and self-learning resources, particularly in the linguistic field. Math deficits must be remedied within the first year of the course, according to procedures established by the Didactic Regulations of the degree program. For English, passing the specific section of the entrance test or holding a certification from an accredited external body, or in the case of a deficit, passing a subsequent assessment, are necessary requirements for accessing the graduation exam.