Working with our students

Industrial Placements or Internships are structured work experience placements for undergraduate students. Industrial Placements enable students to apply skills and knowledge developed during BEng and MEng courses to industry. Industrial Placements normally form an assessed part of students’ courses.

Duration

Placements can last for one of three durations:

• 3 months during the summer
• 6 months from April of students’ penultimate year.
• 1 year from July of students’ penultimate year.
• A period of 3 months to 1-year if a student has already graduated.

Benefits to employers

The Department of Bioengineering’s Industrial Placements offer employers

• The opportunity to employ an undergraduate student to complete a project or series of projects to high technical standards.
• Access to enthusiastic students with new ideas and insights.
• An opportunity to assess potential future employees.
• The opportunity to invest in engineers of the future.
• Opportunities for the student to meet with a member of staff from the Department of Bioengineering to review progress on the placement.

Benefits to students

• Application of academic study to real world problems.
• Experience and new skills which can be used for future employment.
• Improved job prospects after graduation.

To advertise or discuss your placement please contact

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Tel: 020 7594 6371
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

Our annual Bioengineering Careers Fair takes place each November on our South Kensington Campus.

The event attracts companies from across the Medical Technology and Life Sciences industries and each year is attended by over 600 of our students, undergraduate and postgraduate.  Our event offers and excllent opportunity to meet individual students.

Examples of companies which have attended include:

• Blatchford
• Calla Lily
• Eradigm
• Ottobock
• Instadeep
• J&J
• Medpace
• Mintneuro
• Owen Mumford
• Oxford Brain Diagnostics
• Oxford Nanopore
• Perspectum
• Stryker
• Team Consulting
• TTP
• Veeva
• Phillips Medisize

If would like to discuss the possibilities for your company attending our Bioengineering Careers Fair or if you are interested in other opportunities to present to our students please contact:

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

Each year a number of our undergraduate and MSc students work on medical technology projects sponsored by industry. Students bring new ideas and insights and can work on projects which your teams might not otherwise have time to complete with expertise from our academics and access to our specialist technical facilities.

Third year MEng Group Projects: 
Each project is undertaken by a team of 5-7 bioengineering students working over nine months, contributing approximately 1,800-2,400 hours to a challenge defined by the sponsoring company and supported by an Imperial academic supervisor.

Group projects provide companies with a cost-effective way to explore new ideas, evaluate technologies, develop prototypes, generate data, or investigate longer-term opportunities that may sit outside core R&D priorities.

Individual Projects
Companies might prefer to sponsor a final year project with our MEng students or projects with our MSc or MRes students.  Such projects allow sponsors to work closely with a student supervised by an academic with expertise in your field over the course of an academic year.  Our student would focus on a technical or scientific problem, bringing new ideas and persectives to your company.

Examples of companies with which we have worked on group or individual projects include Meta, Abbott, P&G, Ossur, Convatec, Perspectum, Autolus.  We welcome enquiries from early stage companies to large corporates.

For further details please contact:

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

The Department of Bioengineering can help you recruit highly able new graduate and postgraduate students. Our students come from around the world and we can help companies in the UK and internationally find the right people.

We have students who are studying or who have recently completed BEng, and MEng course in Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Bioengineering, BSc Biotechnology Ventures, MSc Biomedical Engineering, MSc Human and Biological Robotics, MRes Bioengineering and MRes in Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship students and about 160 PhD students.

Our students offer a wide range of skills and subject expertise allied to energy and enthusiasm.

Our MEng and MSc Biomedical Engineering programmes are accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).

Bioengineering graduates are working across the world for medical technology companies, product development consultancies, software companies, pharmaceutical and biotech businesses, health informatics enterprises , life science consulting and patent attorney firms.  Our employers range from start-ups to global enterprises.

Contacting our students and graduates

We can help you publicise your vacancies by:

• Emailing students
• Inviting you to present to our students and graduates
• Inviting you to attend our annual Bioengineering Careers Fair.
• Please contact Robert Ferguson to discuss your needs or email him your vacancy details:

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager

Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

Company sponsored prizes for student projects, posters, exam performance offer an opportunity to promote you company’s name and reputation with Bioengineering students. Sponsorship could take the form of cash prizes, book tokens or the development of an important part of the curriculum.

An example of sponsorship of curricular developments is Rio Tinto’s partnership with Imperial College London. This programme challenges engineering students to design, build and implement Paralympic sporting equipment. The Sports Innovation Challenge provides students with real world engineering problems, the overall aim being to make a tangible contribution to Paralympic sport and healthy lifestyles for people with disabilities.

You can find more information about this programme on our website:

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/engineering/students/current/sports-innovation-challenge/

If you would like to discuss prizes and sponsorship please contact:

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk