BIO-E | Advanced Studies Course

The Advanced Studies Course is a one-year educational program. It serves as the first year of the doctoral course, or stands alone as a one-year graduate course.

The Advanced Studies Course includes training in innovation as well as brief laboratory placements and visits to research laboratories and industrial plants. The mandatory curriculum modules are taught in the fall semester, and the elective modules are taught in the spring semester. In the spring, students also initiate their research; get laboratory placements in one of the research groups involved in the Program, and work on the Innovation Teams project (i-Teams).

Graduates of the Advanced Course in Bio-Engineering Systems will have developed a strong knowledge base, as well as a significant number of technical skills and competences in the advanced areas of:

• Bioprocess engineering
• Computational biosystems
• Cell and tissue engineering
• Nanobiotechnology and biomaterials
• Biomedical devices and technologies
• Drug development practices and neuroscience

Graduates also will be capable of the following:

• Integrating different research areas in bio-engineering in problem-solving
• Identifying the best path for commercializing a novel technology through an innovation process based on a go-to-market strategy
• Using bioengineering technical skills and competences in research projects (which might include a PhD thesis) in different fields of Bio-Engineering Systems
• Coordinating multiple, interdisciplinary tasks in order to achieve an objective