Program Overview

Design and Professional Skills I (Biomedical Engineering) (ENGF0031)

Key Information

• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering Sciences
• Teaching department: Engineering Sciences
• Credit value: 15
• Restrictions: This module is NOT available to Affiliate or Exchange students or students outside the IEP

Alternative Credit Options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This module is intended to introduce students to engineering, design, technical communication, and academic writing, as well as other engineering professional practices and skill sets necessary for future employability. Technical communication can be broken down into writing, technical argument, explanation, data visualization, and presentations. Specific components will include:

• An introduction to the chosen engineering discipline
• The design process
• Critical and creative thinking
• Decision-making
• Problem-solving
• Ethics and sustainability
• Industry standards and professional conduct
• Teamworking
• Leadership
• Project management
• Career preparation and employability

The module aims to deliver these through instruction, engagement, practice, and feedback, taught through the context of biomedical engineering. It includes two intensive team-based projects (Scenarios) designed to help students practice technical and professional skills alongside developing their technical understanding and practice of biomedical engineering.

This module is part of the Engineering faculty's cross-faculty teaching framework called the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) and is designed to be integrated with the ENGF0001 Engineering Challenges module taught in parallel during Term 1.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Outline the basic elements of the design cycle and use these to tackle real engineering problems
• Describe an engineering problem and its constraints in a concise written or spoken report
• Give examples of ethical issues related to engineering and recall tools to analyze future problems
• Give examples of how their specific discipline interacts with sustainability and describe their responsibilities as an engineer
• Acknowledge the basic tools for critical thinking and problem-solving and use these to tackle real-world problems
• Identify and describe the utility of important structural features in writing and presentation
• Analyze the audience for a given communication and determine the appropriate point of view, level of detail, and jargon
• Describe and practice basic concepts in team-working, project management, and engineering leadership
• Recognize the level of conduct expected by the profession and explain why such codes of conduct are necessary
• Report/present on discipline-specific material such as Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Module Deliveries for 2026/27 Academic Year

Intended Teaching Term: Terms 1 and 2, Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 4)

Teaching and Assessment

• Mode of study: In person
• Methods of assessment:
  • 40% Coursework (2 assessments)
  • 10% Viva or oral presentation
  • 40% Group activity (2 assessments)
  • 10% In-class activity
• Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other Information

• Number of students on module in previous year: 171
• Module leader: Dr. Charlotte Maughan Jones