Study Programmes 2015-2016
GBIO0027-1  
Integrated project in biomedical engineering
Duration :
30h Th, 90h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in biomedical engineering (120 ECTS)10
Lecturer :
Liesbet Geris, Davide Ruffoni
Language(s) of instruction :
English language
Organisation and examination :
All year long, with partial in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
The integrated project biomedical engineering consists of 3 parts
* contact program with biomedical industry in Belgium (organised together with the other masters in biomedical engineering of the fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles: http://biomed-days.ulb.ac.be/)
* soft skills training (presentation, creativity, team work, brainstorming, project organisation etc) in collaboration with ID Campus: http://www.idcampus.be/
* project work: the subjects of the projects will be defined by industrial, clinical or academic partners.  Supervision will be taken care of by the academics most closely related to the subject and the partners that proposed it.
Learning outcomes of the course :
  • solution of complex and incompletely stated problems, close to the reality in the field
  • decompartmentalization and intégration of knowledge
  • Design and realisation of an object or the pre-study of a larger wokr
  • skills in groupwork and contacts with other partners (often with different backgrounds)
  • skills in project management
  • autonomy
  • communication skills
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
In fonction of the identified needs, the realisation of the project is completed with
* seminars by professors and academic researchers
* hands-on tutorials by ID Campus
* seminars by industrial partners, organised together with the other masters in biomedical engineering of the fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles: http://biomed-days.ulb.ac.be/ 
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Copy of the lecture notes and seminar handouts
Assessment methods and criteria :
OCTOBER
  • reflexion phase and idea creation
  • intermediate presentation to présent le problème
NOVEMBER
  • Division in sub-problems
  • conception phase
DECEMBER
  • intermediate evaluation regarding the conception phase.
  • debriefing.
  • feedbackon the projets.
FEBRUARY
  • Implementation phase (1/2).
MARCH
  • Implementation phase (2/2).
  • intermediate presentation to evaluate the progres of the work and the proposed technical solutions.
  • feedback and adjustment (if necessary)
APRIL
  • test phase with validation of the prototype.
MAY
  • Evaluation of the project in its totality, based on oral presentation and written report.
  • Debriefing.
  • Feedback.
Work placement(s) :
none
Organizational remarks :
The integrated project biomedical engineering consists of 2 parts
* contact program with biomedical industry in Belgium (organised together with the other masters in biomedical engineering of the fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles: http://biomed-days.ulb.ac.be/)
* soft skills training and project work will take place every monday afternoon of the entire academic year.
Contacts :
Liesbet Geris
+32 4 366 9587
liesbet.geris@ulg.ac.be
druffoni@ulg.ac.be