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22 November 2009 CUHK Launches Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering Programme
Prof. Chan Kam-tai, Programme Director of the BME undergraduate programme, said, ¡¥Drawing on the previous experience in running the MSc BME programme and leveraging the resources and expertise of the two faculties, the BME undergraduate programme strives to provide the best training to nurture interdisciplinary professionals in biology, medicine and engineering to meet with the growing needs of the medical industry, such as hospitals, medical devices and biotechnology companies.¡¦ The specialty areas in this three-year programme are medical devices and instrumentation, medical imaging, information technology in healthcare, and biomedical sensor technologies. In the first year, courses cover the fundamentals of biomedical engineering, e.g., engineering mathematics, circuit theory, physiology and anatomy, orthopaedics and biomechanics. In the second and final years, students will concentrate on several advanced areas of biomedical engineering. In the final year of study, each student is required to complete a one-year research project on a specialized biomedical engineering topic independently. Prof. Douglas Yung, a member of the Programme Committee of the BME undergraduate programme, said, ¡¥The BME programme offers both academic education and practical engineering training. The Work Study Programme under the BME programme offers all students an opportunity to spend 6 months to 1 year of their pre-final year, as a full-time employee of a biotechnology firm, healthcare company, medical equipment manufacturer or hospital of their choice. The student will continue his/her final year of study after the internship. They are also required to complete practical training in the Prince of Wales Hospital.¡¦ Biomedical engineering is a growing industry with a strong career outlook. There are CUHK BME MSc graduates working in hospitals, research institutes, and medical and healthcare companies, as well as pursuing further studies overseas. Professors of the BME programme are all experts in the medical and scientific fields. Their inventions have won various awards, including the Electro-cardiogram Monitoring Bed Sheet, which prevents sudden death during sleep, designed by Prof. Zhang Yuan-ting of the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK. The invention was awarded the Best Lifestyle Gold Award (Home Life and Healthy Living) from the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2008. Another research team led by Prof. Max Meng Qing-hu of the Department of Electronic Engineering was also awarded the annual top award, Best Paper Award, at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) for its paper entitled ¡¥Image representation and compression for capsule endoscope robot¡¦. The BME programme now accepts applications from the Early Admissions Scheme, JUPAS and non-JUPAS. It offers 50 admission quotas for the academic year of 2010 and competition is expected to be keen.
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