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

The careers fair usually takes place in November. A date for 2016 will be announced soon.

Last year’s employers included:

• Roche (Drugs Delivery Device team)
• Equivital
• Team Consulting
• TTP, The Technology Partnership,
• PA Consulting
• Deallus Consulting
• Cambridge IP

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
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

Each year a number of our undergraduate and MSc students work on a medical technology project with an employer. Students bring new ideas and insights and can work on projects which your teams might not otherwise have time to complete.

Please contact Robert Ferguson is you are interested in working with an undergraduate or MSc student on their major project.

Talking to our students
Our students are always interested in hearing from businesses about your recruitment plans or about interesting new projects or technologies. If you would like the opportunity to speak to our students we have regular term time speakers’ slots and we can offer an enthusiastic audience.

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, MSc Biomedical Engineering, MRes Bioengineering and MRes in Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship students and about 160 PhD students.

The undergraduate BEng and MEng and postgraduate MSc Biomedical Engineering programmes are accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).

Our graduates are working in medical device companies, engineering consultancies, general engineering, health informatics, health IT systems, health and bioscience consulting and a range of other professions.

Contacting our students and graduates

We can help you publicise your vacancy by:

• Emailing our students and graduates
• 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
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
Email: robert.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk

Each year a number of our undergraduate and MSc students work on a medical technology project with an employer. Students bring new ideas and insights and can work on projects which your teams might not otherwise have time to complete.

Please contact Robert Ferguson is you are interested in working with an undergraduate or MSc student on their major project.

Talking to our students

Our students are always interested in hearing from businesses about your recruitment plans or about interesting new projects or technologies. If you would like the opportunity to speak to our students we have regular term time speakers’ slots and we can offer an enthusiastic audience.

For further details please contact:

Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
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