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Biomedical Engineering Co-op Information for Employers

Adding Value to Your Team

Biomedical Engineering students at the University of Guelph combine their knowledge of life sciences with engineering principles to the design, development, and application of electronic and biomedical devices to improve human health. Students who study biomedical engineering help meet the growing need for the application of mechanics, materials and physiology to develop devices such as prosthetics and implants and for investigative instruments and technologies. Students also learn skills that would lead to industrial process design and quality control in the healthcare sector.

University of Guelph Advantage

While gaining the background necessary to excel in the biomedical industry, students have the option to specialize their degree through elective courses in the areas of image processing, electronic instrumentation and electrical devices, human factors or pharmaceuticals. The Biomedical Engineering program is focused on biomaterial science, biomechanics, process engineering, and instrumentation and digital control.

In addition to core engineering analysis and design courses, all students will study:

  • Material Science
  • Physiology, Anatomy, and Pathology
  • Bio-instrumentation design
  • Computer-aided design
  • Computer systems interfacing
  • Systems analysis
  • Biomechanics 

Co-op students are available for 4 or 8 month work terms.

Student Strengths

 Knowledge

A sound grounding in organic, analytical, and biochemistry. Exposure to the theories of toxic action: uptake and metabolism, risk assessment, and pesticides in the environment.

 Application

Practical laboratory abilities in chemical and biological wet-bench techniques, instrumentation and sampling.

 Understandng

Functional proficiency in trace analysis, statistical analysis, contaminant dose response and comparative physiology of plants and animals.

Biomedical Engineering Work Term Schedule

YEAR
 

FALL

 

WINTER

 

SUMMER

ONEAcademicAcademicOff
TWOAcademicAcademicWork
THREEAcademicWorkWork
FOURAcademicAcademicWork
FIVEWorkAcademic 

Biomedical Engineering Course Sequencing

Please see the current undergraduate calendar for more information.

Fall

  • General Chemistry I
  • Engineering Analysis
  • Physics With Applications
  • Engineering and Design I
  • Calculus I

Winter

  • General Chemistry II
  • Calculus II
  • Engineering Mechanics I
  • Introduction To Programming
  • Introductory Electricity And Magnetism

Fall

  • Material Science
  • Engineering Systems Analysis
  • Applied Differential Equations
  • Introduction to Co-operative Education
  • Engineering and Design II
  • Engineering Mechanics II
  • 1 Restricted Elective

Winter

  • Biological Concepts Of
    Health
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Electric Circuits
  • Concepts in Human Physiology
  • Numerical Methods
  • Probability and Statistics For Engineers

Summer

Work Term One

Fall

  • Biomedical Comparative Anatomy
  • Signal Processing
  • Thermodynamics
  • Electronic Devices
  • Science and Technology in A Global Context
  • 1 Restricted Elective

Winter

Work Term Two

Summer

Work Term Three

Fall

  • Bio-Instrumentation Design
  • Engineering Economics
  • 4 Restricted Electives

Winter

  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Engineering and Design III 
  • Systems and Control Theory
  • Principles of Disease
  • Biomaterials
  • 1 Restricted Elective

Summer

Work Term Four

Fall

Work Term Five

Winter

  • Biomedical Engineering Design IV
  • 3 Restricted Electives