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students

McMaster
universitY:

fOsTerInG The neXT GeneraTIOn
Of bIOmedICal enGIneers

I

magine health care professionals who
know how to rig a house to monitor
your movements so effectively that
they can predict when you are about to
fall; Or a world where civil engineers,
designing future medical products, know
the intricacies of human health.
This is the new world McMaster
Engineering is fostering with the next
generation of biomedical engineers.
New developments within the Faculty
are putting graduates on the cutting
edge of what the world needs, says
Ishwar K. Puri, LL, McMaster's Dean of
Engineering.
The most notable development,
he says, is a new five-year Integrated
Biomedical Engineering and Health
Sciences program that will launch in
September. First of its kind in Canada,
the program will create future health
professionals with knowledge of
advanced technologies, and engineers
who understand human health.
"Even if students in the cohort don't
work in the field of health sciences, we
now have trained graduates who are
capable of working on interdisciplinary
problems," Puri says.

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"The world today is beset by many
wicked problems. What we require is
a commonality of effort and understanding each-others' languages. My
contention is that we are not only
making them bilingual in engineering
and health sciences. We're putting them
on the path of being multilingual."
With the program, students will enter
either the Bachelor of Engineering and
Biomedical Engineering program, or the
Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences in
Health, Engineering Science and Entrepreneurship. About 1,000 hopefuls
applied for 140 spots in 2017, Puri says.
That multilingualism approach to
education and research is happening in
other ways, too. McMaster Engineering
will benefit from a new $43 million project that will see an expansion - as well
as a repair and retrofit of existing labs
- to the Arthur Bourns Building. The
work will make way for more interdisciplinary collaboration. Construction
is expected to start in 2017, says John
Preston, Associate Dean of Research and
External Relations.
Engineering students will also benefit from a new bio makerspace where

undergraduates will be able to create
hands on and "have the tools they need
to do interesting projects," Preston says.
"When I went through my own engineering degree program, I would have
said my education existed in courses and
assignments," he says. Now, "we realize
that's kind of a limited view of things."

WhEN I WENT ThrOugh
My OWN ENgINEErINg DEgrEE
PrOgrAM, I WOulD hAVE SAID
My EDuCATION ExISTED IN
COurSES AND ASSIgNMENTS,
(NOW) WE rEAlIzE ThAT'S
kIND OF A lIMITED VIEW OF
ThINgS.
- John PrEston, a ssociatE dEan of
r EsEarch and ExtErnal r Elations



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