Civil and Biomedical Engineering – Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences

Overview

The diverse expertise within the Department of Civil Engineering enable us to address several grand challenges related to biomedical engineering with the goal of building healthier communities. These included studying the fate and transport of pathogens in ground water systems and their subsequent impact on the environment and human health. In addition, we study flow of contaminated water (e.g. with radionuclides or heavy metals) in fractured rock systems. The department also has an ongoing program on the systemic risk of hydraulic fracking on ground water aquifers. Our faculty considers medical evacuation plans and medical resource allocation and optimization under national- or regional-levels disasters (e.g. nuclear release, wild fire, etc.) in order to ensure the health and resilience of our communities. With a strong foundation in mechanics, we equip our graduates with the necessary tools to model human body motion dynamics and responses to extreme loading conditions (e.g. explosions) as well as simulating human injuries (e.g. bone fracture, traumatic brain injuries, etc.) using numerical tools (e.g. finite element analysis). Realizing the importance of our healthcare infrastructure, we educate students on state-of-the-art methods to ensure the resilience of such critical infrastructure systems in order to avoid cascading failure under natural or man-induced hazards.

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Current Student Inquiries

Email:

ibiomed@mcmaster.ca

Phone:

+1 905.525.9140 x 27371

Office:

MDCL 3511

Important information

Degree type:

Undergraduate Degree

Length:

5 years

Academic requirements:

Completion of IBEHS 1

Degree requirements:

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Admission Requirements

Admission to either the B.H.Sc. (Honours) Health, Engineering Science and Entrepreneurship (HESE) specialization or the B.Eng.BME Biomedical Engineering (BME) specialization requires successful completion of all non-elective Level I IBEHS courses with a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0.

All students who successfully complete the first year of the program will have a space in one of the two degree options. As enrolment is limited in each of the two degree options (HESE or BME), where there is more demand than spaces, competition will be based on first-year academic achievement.

Students seeking admission to the BME specialization will be admitted to one of eight Level II Engineering programs (Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Engineering Physics, Materials, Mechanical, Mechatronics, or Software). Admission to a Level II Engineering program is guaranteed for all students who meet the general progress requirements. All engineering programs have limited enrolment; should there be more applicants than the limiting number in any program, admission to that program will be based on GPA.

Students who do not meet the requirements to proceed to Level II in May will have a Pending flag put on their allocation. The Pending flag will be removed in August if the student completes the requirements over the summer.

Notes

As well as completing the academic requirements as specified in this Calendar, students in a Co-op program must complete IBEHS 1EE0. IBEHS 2EC0 will be added to the academic record for each 4 month work term.

Co-op and Experiential Learning

Students enrolled in either the BME or HESE stream at McMaster will have the opportunity to apply for co-op positions.

Co-op placements are flexible and can be taken up at any time.

Co-op is offered for both degree options
Students are able to add co-op at any time up to the end of their penultimate year of studies
A minimum of 12 months of relevant work experience is required to receive your co-op designation

For maximum flexibility, options include:

4 month summer work-terms
8 to 16 month continuous internships

quote from iBioMed student about co-op

iBioMed students have landed co-op placements within the following industries:

Healthcare

Education

Finance

Government

Tech

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Civil and Biomedical Engineering – Related Courses

Code	Title	Instructor	Outline	Info
CHEMENG 3BM3 Technical Elective	Bioseparations Engineering	Ghosh	Outline	More
CHEMENG 4T03 Technical Elective	Applications of Chemical Engineering in Medicine	Zhang	Outline	More
ELECENG 4BB3 Technical Elective	Cellular Bioelectricity	Bruce		More
ENGPHYS 4I03 Technical Elective	Introduction to Biophotonics	Fang	Outline	More
IBEHS 2P03 Undergraduate	Health Solutions Design Projects II: Introduction to Genetic Engineering	Leung	Outline	More
IBEHS 3H03 Undergraduate	Research Project		Outline	More
IBEHS 3I06 A/B Undergraduate	Research Project		Outline	More
IBEHS 3P04 Undergraduate	Health Solutions Design Projects III: Analysis and Decision Making	Fang	Outline	More
IBEHS 4A03 Undergraduate	Biomedical Control Systems	Nease	Outline	More
IBEHS 4C03 Undergraduate	Statistical Methods in Biomedical Engineering		Outline	More
IBEHS 4D03 Undergraduate	Introduction to Medical Imaging		Outline	More
IBEHS 4F04 Undergraduate	Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurement	Fang	Outline	More
IBEHS 5P06 A/B Undergraduate	Integrated Biomedical Capstone Design Project	Selvaganapathy	Outline	More
MATLS 4B03 Technical Elective	Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering	Lee		More
MECHENG 4CC3 Technical Elective	Experimental and Computational Biomechanics	Quenneville	Outline	More