bach of biomedical sciences/engineering

[shademaker]

anyone else interested in doing this/ is anybody already doing this?
also.. in the course guide 2009 is says "a study score of at least 35 in English (ESL) or 30 in any other English"
does "English (ESL)" refer to both mainstream english and ESL or just ESL?

[Collin Li]

Just ESL, I assume. Basically they are trying to ensure you are one of the better secondary English speakers.

[Industrious]

What Coblin said. Oh and I'm in this course, in my 2nd year doing chem. eng as my major. More than happy to answer any questions regarding it.

[shademaker]

um... is it good/interesting
i was thinking of either majoring in chem or materials
do they lead to two totally different areas in the end?

[Industrious]

Yep, good course, some of the biomed units can be a little boring though as they simply involve memorizing copious amounts of useless information, however the general consensus is that, biomed units are a fair bit easier than engineering units.
Majoring in chem. eng is a good choice (it was by far the most popular in my year, civil was the least popular, only 1 person chose it!), biomed can add a fair bit of depth to a chem. eng degree, i.e. you could go into pharmaceutical engineering, biotechnology, biochemical engineering etc...
Materials is a good choice as well, 2nd most popular major; it'd lead to a completely different area though.

[ingramjack48]

whats the enter range for next two years cause it was 93.05 last year
im interested

[shademaker]

how many hours is it per week?

[shademaker]

oh and also..
is there like a required work experience part of the course?

[shademaker]

oh oh and also also
if i want to do something like biomedical engineering i could either do this double degree or at melbourne do biomedicine or science for 3 years then do a 2 year masters of engineering (biomedical). i know you probably arent the person i should be speaking to but do you know if there are any advantages/disadvantages with going to melbourne uni? like have you heard they suck for engineering or anything? both courses are equal amount of time ... but you get a masters going to melbourne.. so yeh im really unsure about which uni to choose atm

[excal]

Up to you, really. Maybe use location and ENTER score as criterion?

[Industrious]

It's around 23-28 hours per week, I think you'll have to do the compulsory 'work placement' (it's called something else though) for engineering to graduate. I prefer the double degree over the biomedical engineering degree at Melbourne - you get two degrees and get to choose your stream of engineering, also there's more flexibility with the units you choose. Monash also offers a masters in biomedical engineering that goes for 1 year, but that's really aimed at biomed sci / electrical engineering students. Don't think engineering sucks at Melbourne uni, however I've heard that a number of students who chose biomedical engineering there have transferred to biomed sci/eng.