BH069 - Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) (Honours)

Plan: BH069 - Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) (Honours)
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

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Approach to learning and assessment

Several courses in the program are delivered online, rather than on-campus, and you are likely to find that other courses transition to online delivery as you progress through the program.

The following learning and teaching approaches form the basis of your learning experiences:

• In classes, including lectures, you will be encouraged to actively participate in activities such as discussions, asking and answering questions, and problem solving exercises.
• Projects will require you to effectively communicate outcomes across all communication modes (speaking, listening, writing, drawing and presenting) to a range of audiences.
• You will undertake team learning activities and projects that require you to work in mixed teams and critically engage with aspects of team development and conflict resolution.
• You will engage in learning activities and projects that require you to identify, plan, design, construct and manage solutions to scientific and engineering problems.
• Learning activities will focus on practical application of technical skills and you will be assessed on technical competence both in theory and practice.
• Projects will require you to access a variety of knowledge sources including professional journals, discussion lists and online resources.
• You will be required to solve complex, real-world problems.
• You will be given problems that require you to consider the business context and market potential of products that you design.

Assessment

Course assessment is designed to enable you to demonstrate your technical, design, research, and communication abilities. The forms of assessment will vary with each course, depending on the specific learning outcomes and capability development objectives.

Assessments may take the following forms:

• Assignment and Projects: these may be done individually or in groups allowing you to demonstrate your ability to work alone or as a member of a team.
• Reflective Journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt, along with the easy and hard issues associated with that learning.
• Assessed Tutorials: a form of in-class test, which may be done individually or as a team.
• Laboratory Reports: which provide an exercise in experimentation, report writing and critical analysis of data.
• Self-Assessment and Peer-Assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you may assess yourself or your own group, or assess the work of other groups. This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and assessing your own and others' performance.

The assessment you receive will enable your lecturer to provide you with feedback. This will enable you to improve your performance in the future. 
To view the Assessment Policy go to: https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/governance-and-management/policies/assessment-policy

If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (for example, through prior studies or work experience), you can apply for credit once you have enrolled in this program. There is information on the RMIT University website about how to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/he.

In addition to your studies for this program you also have the opportunity of undertaking an Industry Placement for six or twelve months either locally as advertised by local businesses, or internationally through the RMIT International Industry Experience and Research Program (RIIERP) http://www.rmit.edu.au/riierp.

Inherent requirements  

The following information on inherent requirements outlines the tasks you will be required to undertake during professional placement and on-campus learning activities. The non-academic abilities listed are provided for information only and are not entry requirements.

If there are any activities outlined which may be difficult for you to undertake, there are a range of adjustments to your study conditions available to enable and support you to demonstrate these abilities. Please contact the Equitable Learning Service to discuss any adjustments you may require.

Please read the full list of the Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) inherent requirements at: https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/applying-to-rmit/local-student-applications/entry-requirements/inherent-requirements/engineering/bachelor-of-engineering-biomedical-engineering-honours

By understanding the types of activities you’ll participate in, you can:

• understand more about the program
• determine if you may need support during your studies
• make an informed decision about whether the program is suitable for you

If you are living with disability, long-term illness and/or a mental health condition, we can support you by making adjustments to activities in your program so that you can participate fully in your studies. To receive learning adjustments, you need to register with Equitable Learning Service.

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Work integrated learning

RMIT is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience.  Work Integrated Learning will be undertaken in many courses in your program. As a student enrolled in this RMIT program you will:

• undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and  demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
• interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities and receive feedback through assessment tasks; and
• complete these activities in real or simulated work contexts or situations.

The following two 12 CP core courses include WIL activities where 50% or more of the assessment involves assessors from a WIL partner organisation:

• OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice where you will participate in an "Engineers Without Borders (EWB)" project which is focussed on sustainable development as identified by EWB and community organisations.
• OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B where you will work under the guidance of a professional engineer who may be from industry or be an academic or research staff member. You will apply your technical knowledge, research, design and professional engineering skills to either discipline specific, or cross disciplinary engineering problems, through robust research and established engineering design processes. 

In addition to these courses you are strongly recommended to undertake at least 10 weeks of engineering work experience supervised by a professional engineer. If your work experience meets the requirements it may be assessed concurrently with your work experience as part of courses such as 

• OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience. 
• MIET1106  Industrial Placement Program

You can enroll in OENG1165 while you are undertaking engineering work experience at any time during your program as a University elective course or you can enroll in it as a technical option course in some programs in your final year. You can enroll in MIET1106 as a university elective. 

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Program Structure

For students who commence their study in this program from 1 January 2016 onwards, please note that some courses listed in this structure will have their course marks count toward your program's weighted average mark. Your weighted average mark will determine the honours level of your award once you have completed the program. If a course counts toward your weighted average mark, that fact will be stated in its course guide. In Enrolment Online, after you completed your course enrolment, you will be notified which of the enrolled courses will count toward the weighted average mark.
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Year One of Program
Complete the following Seven (7) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Engineering Mathematics 12 MATH2393 City Campus Engineering Science 12 OENG1208 City Campus Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice 12 OENG1166 City Campus Creative Engineering CAD 12 OENG1204 City Campus Introduction to Engineering for the Human Body 12 OENG1210 City Campus Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 EEET2249 City Campus
AND
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If you have not completed VCE Maths Methods or VCE Specialist Maths or equivalent, you must complete the following course:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Introduction to Engineering Mathematics 12 MATH2395 City Campus
OR
If you have completed VCE Maths Methods or VCE Specialist Maths or equivalent, complete the following course:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Foundations of Artificial Intelligence for STEM 12 COSC2960 City Campus
}
AND
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Biomedical Engineering System and Design 12 OENG1230 City Campus Mathematics for ECE 12 MATH2161 City Campus Electronics 12 EEET2255 City Campus Engineering Computing 1 12 EEET2246 City Campus Digital Biomedical Design 12 MIET2461 City Campus Human Body Flow Dynamics 12 OENG1073 City Campus Signals and Systems 1 12 EEET2369 City Campus Biomedical Chemistry and Structural Materials 12 OENG1229 City Campus
AND
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Biomedical Engineering Design and Practice 12 OENG1101 City Campus Biomedical Engineering Design and Practice 2 12 OENG1102 City Campus Research Methods for Engineers 12 EEET2449 City Campus Biomedical Signal Analysis and Image Processing 12 EEET1417 City Campus Biomaterials 12 MIET2460 City Campus Biomechanics 12 MIET2377 City Campus Biomedical Instrumentation and Electronics 12 EEET1414 City Campus Implant Engineering and Assistive Technology 12 MIET2375 City Campus
AND
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Year Four of Program
Complete the following Two (2) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Engineering Capstone Project Part A 12 OENG1167 City Campus Engineering Capstone Project Part B 12 OENG1168 City Campus
AND
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Year Four of Program - Option 1
If you were required to complete MATH2395 Introduction to Engineering Mathematics in year 1, complete the following course:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Foundations of Artificial Intelligence for STEM 12 COSC2960 City Campus
AND
Select and complete Four (4) of the option courses from the list below
OR
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Year Four of Program - Option 2
If you were not required to complete MATH2395 Introduction to Engineering Mathematics in Year 1, Complete Five (5) of the Option Courses below:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Professional Engineering Experience 12 OENG1165 City Campus Humanitarian Experiential Learning Project 12 OENG1164 City Campus MicroNanoSystems, MEMS, and NEMS 12 EEET2379 City Campus Cardiovascular Engineering 12 MIET2379 City Campus Lab-on-a-Chip, Biomedical Devices and BioNanoEngineering 12 EEET2472 City Campus Biofabrication and Tissue Engineering 12 MANU2234 City Campus Biomedical Signal and Image Processing 12 OENG1105 City Campus Advanced Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation 12 OENG1099 City Campus Bioelectromagnetism 12 EEET2160 City Campus Rehabilitation Engineering 12 OENG1109 City Campus Advanced Manufacturing and Design 12 MANU2455 City Campus Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics: What We Make and How We Make It 12 MANU2488 City Campus Sensors and Measurement Technologies 12 EEET1413 City Campus Bioinformatics 12 BIOL2254 City Campus
)
AND
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Year Four of Program - Electives
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
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Program transition plan

Very Important: This plan is being phased out. 
  
BH069 - Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)(Honours) plan has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students after Semester 2 2022. The plan will be taught out to current students until semester 2, 2027. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of 2027, you may consider applying to other programs within RMIT subject to entrance requirements. You may also consider applying to the new plan: 

BH069P23 Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) (Honours)
  
For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Toh Yen Pang (tohyen.pang@rmit.edu.au).

Transition Plan 2022

The following table shows courses that will be replaced from Semester 1 2022, and is for program transition purposes only and does not necessarily map course equivalencies.

If you have successfully completed any of the replaced courses prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2022 they will continue to count towards the successful completion of your program.

If you commenced in BH069 prior to Semester 1 2022 and have not successfully completed the replaced courses, please contact the program manager for enrolment advice.

	Prior to 2022 (courses being replaced)	Credit points	Replacement Course	Credit points
Year 1	MATH2160 Engineering Mathematics A	12	MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics	12
Year 1	OENG1108 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering & Design	12	OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice	12
Year 1	BIOL1159/BIOL2146 Cell Structure & Design	12	OENG1204 Creative Engineering CAD	12
Year 1	PHYS2082 Physics 1	12	OENG1208 Engineering Science	12
Year 1	BIOL2480 Introduction to Human Biosciences	12	OENG1210 Introduction to Engineering for the Human Body	12
Year 1	BIOL2482 Mechanisms of Body Function	12	COSC2960 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in STEM *	12
Year 2	MIET2419 Mechanics & Materials 1	12	OENG1230 Biomedical Engineering System & Design	12
Year 2	CHEM1242 Chemistry Principles	12	OENG1229 Biomedical Chemistry and Structural Materials	12

*Students who have not completed VCE Maths Methods or VCE Specialist Maths or equivalent should complete MATH2395 Introduction to Engineering Mathematics instead of COSC2960 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in STEM in year 1 and complete Option 1 in year 4.

For further enrolment advise, please contact your Program manager.

Transition Plan 2020

The following table shows courses that will be replaced/ amended from Semester 1 2020 as part of a program transition. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2020 it will continue to count as a core course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.

Year	Old course	Credit Points	Replacement / amended course/s	Credit Points
One	EEET2248 “Electrical Engineering Analysis”	12 CP	OENG1206 “Digital Fundamentals”	12 CP
Two			No changes
Three	OENG1132 “Biomedical Design 3A”	12 CP each	OENG1132 “Biomedical Engineering Design and Practice 1” [Renamed]	12 CP each
OENG1133 “Biomedical Design 3B”	OENG1133 “Biomedical Engineering Design and Practice 2” [Renamed]
MIET2498 “Engineering Biomaterials”	MIET2498 “Biomaterials” [Renamed]
MIET2377 “Engineering Biomechanics”	MIET2377 “Biomechanics” [Renamed]
BIOL2254 “Bioinformatics”	MIET2374 “Implant Engineering and Assistive Technology”
Four	MANU2459 “Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering”	12 CP each	MANU2459 “Tissue Engineering” [Renamed]	12 CP each
MIET2374 “Orthopaedic Implant and Rehab Engineering”	BIOL2254 “Bioinformatics”
OENG1137 “Muscular Control and Assistive Technology”	OENG1137 “Rehabilitation Engineering” [Renamed]
MANU2205 “Introduction to Mechatronics”	Removed
EEET2496 “Extended Professional Engineering Project 1”	Removed
EEET2497 “Extended Professional Engineering Project 2”	Removed

-From Semester 1 2020, EEET2248 “Electrical Engineering Analysis” will be replaced by OENG1206 “Digital Fundamentals”. Students who have not successfully completed EEET2248 “Electrical Engineering Analysis” before the commencement of Semester 1 2020 will be able to take OENG1206 “Digital Fundamentals” as a substitute.

-From Semester 1 2020, BIOL2254 “Bioinformatics” has been removed as a core course from year 3. Interested students will be able to take it as a technical elective in year 4 of the program. Students who completed BIOL2254 “Bioinformatics” prior to 2020 will be able to receive credits for this as a core BH069 course. If you have not successfully completed BIOL2254 “Bioinformatics” before the Commencement of Semester 1 2020, you will take MIET2374 “Implant Engineering and Assistive Technology”

- From Semester 1 2020 MIET2374 “Implant Engineering and Assistive Technology” commences as a core course in year 3.

Transition Plan 2019

-From Semester 1 2019 the following courses have been removed:

BIOL2374 Principles of Human Biology
BIOL2373 Human Physiology 2: Body Systems
MIET2097 Engineering Mechanics
BIOL2371 Human Physiology 1 - Body Systems

And replaced with the following courses:

BIOL2480 Introduction to Human Biosciences
BIOL2482 Mechanisms of Body Function
EEET2255 Electronics
OENG1073 Physiological Flows

- Students who have completed the first year of their program at the end of 2018, you must enrol into EEET2249 Circuit Theory instead of OENG1073 Physiological Flows in their second year.

First and second year students who do not meet any of the above criteria will need to meet with their Program Manager for course selection advice.

Transition Plan 2018

-From Semester 1 2018, OENG1103 Biomedical Engineering Design 4A and OENG1104 Biomedical Engineering Design 4B will be replaced by OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A and OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B respectively.

-Students who completed OENG1103 Biomedical Engineering Design 4A in 2017 will be able to complete OENG1104 Biomedical Engineering Design 4B in Semester 1 2018.

-Before 2018, OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate was part of Program structures as a core course.

-From 2018, OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate will be replaced by OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience which will be an Option course.

If you commenced your program before 2018 and have not successfully completed OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate before the Commencement of Semester 1 2018, you may choose to take the Option course OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience or any other option course in your program structure.

Transition Plan 2015

This transition plan applies if you were enrolled in BH069 or its predecessor BP275 in 2014 or earlier.

In 2015 a number of courses are replaced by equivalent or alternative courses.

Course equivalencies in the following table are for transition purposes (not necessarily content equivalent). All courses listed are 12 credit points.

Old Course	New Course
EEET2247 Enterprise Engineering	OENG1108 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering and Design
COSC1073 Programming 1	EEET2246 Engineering Computing 1
COSC1076 Programming 2	OENG1100 Biomedical Computer Aided Design
EEET2250 Engineering Computing 2	OENG1100 Biomedical Computer Aided Design
EEET2255 Electronics	EEET1414 Biomedical Instrumentation
EEET2258 Engineering Design 3A	OENG1101 Biomedical Engineering Design 3A
EEET2259 Engineering Design 3B	OENG1102 Biomedical Engineering Design 3B
MIET2377 Engineering Biomechanics and Materials	MIET2377 Engineering Biomechanics
EEET2113 Digital Signal Processing	EEET1417 Biomedical Signal Analysis
BIOL2372 Limb and Trunk Anatomy	None, but see Retained Credit statement below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As no student in the program was enrolled in Year 4 courses in 2014 no transition arrangements are needed for the year 4 courses.

You should consult the Program Manager for advice on which courses to take in order to graduate.

Retained Credit

You will retain credit in this program for all Credit Points earned and taken pursuant to any previously approved Program Structure for BH069 or its predecessor BP275.

If you have completed the full 96 Credit Points of any Program Year as previously prescribed you will retain full credit for that Program Year and will not be required to undertake any further courses to meet the requirements of that Program Year even if the program structure has changed.

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