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Bachelor of Engineering Honours

This page was first published on 13 November 2025 and was last amended on 25 November 2025.
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Biomedical Engineering stream

Bionics and Bioelectronics specialisation

Bionics and Bioelectronics specialisation

Students in the Biomedical stream must complete 30 credit points to achieve this specialisation.
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition
Students must complete 18 credit points from the following:
BMET3802
Biomedical Instrumentation
6 A A knowledge of basic anatomy and physiology and electrical circuits is required: Ohm's law, Thevenins and Norton's theorems, basic circuit theory involving linear resistors, capacitors and inductors, operational amplifiers
P BMET2902 or ELEC1103
N ELEC3802 or ELEC8882 or BMET9802
BMET5957
Neural Engineering
6 A ELEC2104 or BMET2922
BMET5995
Advanced Bionics
6 A (ELEC1103 or ELEC2100 or BMET2902) and (BMET2922 or BMET9922)
N AMME5995 or AMME5951 or BMET5951
Students must complete 12 credit points from the following:
BMET3997
Physiological Signal Sensing and Processing
6 P (ENGG1810 or INFO1110 or INFO1910) and BMET2922
N BMET9997
BMET5790
Introduction to Biomechatronics
6 A Knowledge in mechanical and electronic engineering; adequate maths and applied maths skills; background knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology; Some programming capability: MATLAB, C, C++, software tools used by engineers including CAD and EDA packages;
N AMME4790 or AMME5790 or BMET4790
BMET5911
Instrumentation for Nanobiotechnology
6 A Knowledge in calculus, linear differential equations, basic mechanics and electromagnetism
BMET5934
Biomedical Machine Learning
6 A [BMET2960 and (ENGG1810 or INFO1110) and BMET2922] or equivalent study
BMET5959
Introduction to Biophotonics
6 A [BMET2903 or BMET9903] and [ELEC1103 or ELEC2100 or BMET2902]
BMET5996
Biomedical Technology Software
6 A (BMET2922 or BMET9922) and (BMET3660 or BMET9660)
Units taken for the specialisation will also count toward requirements of the Biomedical stream.

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
25/11/2025 BMET3997 title published as:
"Biological Digital Signal Analysis"
BMET3997 title amended to:
"Physiological Signal Sensing and Processing"