I will say the fundamental thing that defines
biomedical engineering is it has its healthcare, innovation and
improves people's quality of life. So we're developing
medical technologies and systems to from all aspects of dealing
with human disease. So all the way from diagnosing a disease to
analysing how the disease is progressing to therapies or
treating the disease, and also rehabilitation. So people who
undergo injuries and now need to bring their life back on track.
And the development of these technologies requires you to
integrate engineering with the life sciences, which I think is
really great, because that is essentially, you know, cross
disciplinary were really combining two very completely
different fields together to create new and exciting things.
And out of this spins medical technologies, and health
innovations, and there is all these different things that come
into like electrical, mechanical material science, information,
technology, medical science, and so much more. So in our school
here, particularly, we have academics who specialise across
all these different areas, and this is not exhaustive at all.
So there's medical devices, as I mentioned earlier, and robotics,
computational technology and artificial intelligence, there's
tissue engineering and Regenerative Medicine, which is
what I work in so rebuilding or regrowing organs and body parts.
There's micro fluidics, molecular diagnostics, genomics,
bioinformatics, and of course, health, innovation, regulation
and economics as well. So scope for you to be able to do pretty
much whatever you want. And we've got the technical
expertise to be able to support you in that journey. So this is
just an overview of all the different streams of engineering
that we have, you can see biomedical is one of them. We
also have lots of different like engineering is definitely UTS's
strongest faculty and we've got a very mature set of degree
structures around building you to be the future engineers. And
we can also come down to you know, further broaden your
skills and experiences. A lot of these engineering degrees can be
combined with bachelors in other faculties or other disciplines
like arts in business, creative intelligence, language, medical
science and science. So what can you do when you come out as a
biomedical engineer will all of these and so much more. So you
can do r&d for new technologies in academic institutions and
universities, or we'll see also in the industry and biomedical
biotech companies, as well. You can work for hospitals and
clinics, for instance, supporting clinical trials to
test new therapies for patients to try and bring a new medical
product forward. You can work obviously, for our technology
manufacturing companies, so that we can bring on new technologies
to a global manufacturing scale for it to be supplied worldwide,
you can work with pharmaceutical companies to develop better
drugs, work for research institutes, obviously, and also
some of these other things other areas like working in regulatory
affairs, for instance, and also commercialising products, if
some of you here are also considering maybe like a medical
related degree, like potentially becoming a medical doctor down
the track, but you're not sure yet. Biomedical Engineering is
actually a really great choice. And I would say it's better than
medical science, because it gives you a lot broader kind of
career pathways afterwards but you still have the option to be
able to go back and do a medical doctorate degree if you wanted
to. I can't recommend it highly enough. But there are so many
different options available. So just touching on the cost
structure, the cost structure, so our engineering degrees are
combined with the diploma professional practices. So that
brings me to five years in total, and one year out of those
five years is split into two semesters where you are
undertaking internships. So this is a six month internship. And
this is another six months internship. And you can do that
in a lot of different ways. So you can either go into to go as
an intern in a biomedical company, so we have partnerships
with lots of different companies. And also you can
choose to do them with academics like myself, if you're more
interested in the research that we do, and also maybe having a
look into the teaching side of things, or, you know, doing some
wet lab work, for instance. And there's so in the first and
second years will the first three semesters you're going to
be doing a lot of your engineering core subjects. So
those will be your mathematics or maybe in material science or
solid mechanics and like basically just your engineering
core subjects and there's also a separate set of core subjects
which are your biomedical course. So one of those is a
subject that I coordinate which is called Introduction to
biomedical engineering. And that sort of just gives you a
landscape view of the field of biomedical engineering. So like,
it's subjects like doors that comprise what you do in the
first two years, four and a half years. And then in the third and
fourth years, then you do some engineering course biomedical
course. And then you also get some choices as well. So you get
to choose some electives. And there are also electives here,
and it's it's much more customised, of course, towards
the fifth year as well. So yeah, so basically, you can see that
towards the later part of your degree. Because of these
flexibility and choices. You get to specialise more, in a area of
specialisation interested in whether it be maybe medical
robotics, or working with cells, or maybe genomics and
bioinformatics, so you can choose to take subjects that
inform your interests that are your particular area of
environmental engineering. And there is also I just wanted to
note also here that for the elective subjects, I guess,
depending on how the border goes, this potentially could be
a study exchange semester overseas, so definitely get in
touch. By the time that you guys get to that stage. I'm hoping
that will be more back to normal in terms of international
travel. So with biomedical engineering, we can combine, we
have the option to combine them with these different bachelor's
or Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of
Creative intelligence and innovation. So that'll just
expand your nature of the subjects that you do a bit more.
And also, I think that also changes your degree structure.
So your combined degree then also spans over five years but
you have the choice to not do this diploma, Diploma of
Professional Practice, or your degree over five years ends up
with two bachelor's degrees. And you can also choose to still do
this diploma, but that will be an extra year. So it's six
years, whereas the two bachelor's degrees combined
course subjects will be spread over the five years, just to I
guess finish up in the last couple of slides. We
particularly towards the later years of your degree, this is
really exciting. Like we have lots of different studios
subjects, whereby students spend the majority of their time in
the lab doing individual group projects. And they can be on
like all different aspects of biomedical engineering. So you
can see there are some, like designing prototypes, or people
who are doing some electronics and also people who are doing
this looks like some cell based work as well. So there's lots of
different studios subjects where you get hands on experience into
doing engineering projects, and you have like, you know, things
coming out of it that are really exciting to report on. And sort
of tied with this but differently because Capstone are
individual projects. These are 12 months hands on research
projects that you undertake, with an academic within the
school, and biomedical engineering, we have more than
20, probably almost 30 Different academics and research teams
that they lead, a role leading to over 100 different projects
in all these different areas. So you can definitely pick a
project that spikes your interest. There's things in
robotics and 3d bioprinting and personalised medicine, micro
fluidics engineering Cells, Tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine. There's foreign materials and medical
implants. There's a big chunk on cancer research and, and
diagnostics, and also working on the nano level. So nano
medicine, virus sensors, and much, much more. So you get to,
with the help of the epidemic shape, a project that you're
interested in, do the literature search and critical analysis
around the gap in the field. And then you go and design and
implement and test your own unique solution to this problem
and then write up a research project around it is really,
it's really highly interesting. We our capstone students find
this a really enriching experience, I think this is my
last slide. So just covering a little bit more on the Diploma
in Professional Practice. So as we said earlier, is two six
month internships, one you take around second year and the other
one around fourth year. So usually people take it in the
second semester of second year and fourth year, but it that's
not the only time that you can take it so it's a little bit
flexible, you get the opportunity to get real industry
and or academic experience before you even graduate. And
that is really highly valued by your future potential employers.
And you develop a wide range of professional engineering skills.
And I guess most importantly, you start building up networks
with top organisations and employers in the engineering
sector before you even graduate. And I think this is one of the
core values at UTS. And one of our greatest advantages in that
we equip our future graduate engineers with the best possible
professional skills and experience for them to become
the engineers of tomorrow and be highly valued by our society. So
I think that is all from me and I will hande over two Pranitha
who is doing her current bachelor of biomedical
engineering and also happened to intern with me for a short
period of time, just not long. So I'll hand over to you
Pranitha.
Thanks, JJ. Hi, everyone. I'm Pranita. And I'm currently in my
final year of studying biomedical engineering and
business. I've always been interested in STEM and applying
medical technology to improve quality of life. I really
believe that this field is the future and it's always evolving.
And that's the main reason why I chose to study this degree. As
JJ mentioned, I am currently working with her on a internship
on a tissue engineering internship, mainly focusing on
osseointegrated implants. So I'm currently writing a review paper
as well. And yeah, it's been a great experience so far. UTS has
so many opportunities to enhance student life and great
opportunities for women in engineering as well. So if
anyone has questions about societies, internships, or
extracurriculars, please feel free to reach out.
I am going to be talking about a few of the little things to get
into this course. So ATAR adjustment points for UAC.
points are added to a student's raw ATAR, to give a
selection.Adjustment points, Capped at 13 at UTS. Adjustment
points can be given for a number of factors including completing
the UTS, engineering and IT questionnaire, good results in
revelant, relevant HSC subjects, gender and special circumstances
and more. So the UAC key dates if you guys haven't researched
on anything with scholarships, you guys should do it. Now. It's
from April to June, I always suggest just applying even
though you guys might not think you're eligible and everything,
just do it. We have open day on the 27th of August, then there's
the HSC exams, the scholarships offers will be released in
December, the ATAR results will be released on December 15. And
then I think there's another round that goes around after
which will be around in December and January, February. And then
UTS orientation will be in February. And then the autumn
session starts in March, we use year 11 results to enter UTS. So
pretty much you're legible if your current domestic or
international onshore year 12 students. You apply through the
UTS online application portal. So not UAC. It is free to apply.
And applications open around June to July and close in
September. So yeah, we haven't got all the dates yet. But if
you look at the website and check for updates, it will be
their provisional offers will be released on October before the
HSC commences and you must complete the HSC or equivalent.
I know from engineering, doing engineering, a lot of people
have a lot of questions about what if I didn't do extension
math, so I didn't do physics and chem. So we have these bridging
courses offered, which is for maths, physics and chem. You do
them right before it's like a crash course before you start
your autumn session normally, and I think you might be able to
do it in your autumn session too if you prolong your degree a
little longer. And we also have UPASS so UPASS is pretty much an
extra class. Let's say you do maths and everything, you have
your normal lecture and your tutorial and then UPASS is an
extra voluntarily done class and you can get help from students
and everything that have done and excelled at this subject and
everything. So the upcoming on campus events, which is we have
on campus tour series on the first and second of June from
4pm to 7pm.