Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Bioscience Engineering: Human Health Engineering.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Objectives

1. Advanced knowledge, insight and skills with respect to the interaction processes between living organisms as biological systems with complex dynamic processes, and their biotic and abiotic environment, both at the fundamental and applied level, with attention for the actual developments and evolutions on the long term.

2. Advanced system and application oriented insight in multiscale concepts (nano-, micro- and macroscale), which allows to structure and model processes and systems, or can be applied to solve problems in a number of focus domains.

3. System thinking: Ability to differentiate the interactions among different processes within an assignment, to define subprocesses and formulate a technical definition for these, and to enable a further detailed technical study.

4. Independent integration and extension of acquired knowledge, aware of the personal competences, aiming at new concepts and innovation of the application possibilities.

5. Problem-oriented formulation and analysis of complex problems within the expertise domain, by dividing these into manageable subproblems and designing solutions for specific cases with attention for the application possibilities and broader conceptual impact.

6. Independently conceive, plan and execute an engineering project at the level of a starting investigating professional. Conduct and critically interpret a literature search according to scientific standards, with attention for the conceptual context and the application potential.

7. Use intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary insights to select, adapt or eventually develop advanced research, design and solution methods, and adequately apply these and scientifically process the obtained results; motivate the choices made based on the foundations of the discipline and the requirements of the application and business context.

8. Act from a research attitude: creativity, accuracy, critical reflection, motivation of choices on scientific grounds.

9. Groundbreaking, innovative and application-oriented development of systems, products, services and processes; extrapolation with attention for the business context. Extract new research questions from design problems.

10. Control system complexity using quantitative methods. Have sufficient knowledge, insight and experience in scientific research to critically evaluate the results.

11. Act from an engineering attitude within a generic and discipline-specific context: result-oriented attitude, attention for planning and technical, economical and societal boundary conditions like sustainability, risk and feasibility assessment of the proposed approach or solution, focus on results and achievement of effective solutions, innovative and transdisciplinary thinking.

12. Work using a project-based approach from a generic and disciplinary context: formulate goals, keep focus on specific objectives and development route, operate as a member of an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team, develop leadership, operate in an international or intercultural environment, report effectively.

13. Have the economic and business insight to place the contribution to a process or the solution of a problem in a wider context.

14. Weigh specifications and boundary conditions and transform them into a high quality system, product or process. Extract useful information from incomplete, conflicting or redundant data.

15. Communicate written and verbally about the own field in the language of instruction and in the languages that are relevant for the specialism.

16. Communicate and present subject matters in fluent language and graphically to colleagues and laypersons.

17. Act ethically, professionally and with social responsibility, with attention for technical, economical, human and sustainability aspects.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint_MA_Bioscience Engineering_Human Health Engineering.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA report_MA_Human Health Engineering.pdf

COBRA 2015-2019
COBRA-report_MA_Human_Health_Engineering.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents