A new Master in Life Sciences Engineering
Graduating students from the School of Life Sciences (© EPFL - Etienne Malapert)
EPFL’s School of Life Sciences (SV) has merged its two Master programs into a new Master in Life Sciences Engineering, equipping future graduates with quantitative and qualitative skills at the interface of engineering and life sciences.
The new Master program began in the 2018-19 term as a fusion of the School’s two previous Master programs in Bioengineering and Life Sciences & Technology. All of the previous courses are still available, and the new program reinforces a hard core of engineering courses.
The rationale of merging the two Master programs is to strengthen the interdisciplinary character of the program and to provide students with free access to the full set of courses that were previously split between the two master programs.
Students can now choose one specialization – a main field – out of seven: Biomechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biophotonics and Bioimaging, Cellular and Molecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Nanoscale Bioengineering, or Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. These specializations will allow students to gain in-depth knowledge in a field at the interface between engineering, biology and medicine and computer sciences.
If they opt out of a specialization, students can pursue a Minor course out of six: Biotechnology, Biomedical Technologies, Neuroprosthetics, Biocomputing, Computational Neurosciences, or Management, Technology & Entrepreneurship.
“The novelty of our program is that we train students to apply the mindset and skillset of an engineer not only to applied research in bioengineering, but also to basic research in life sciences,” says SV Section director Professor John McKinney. “Graduates of our program are not engineers or scientists, they are both: engineer-scientists.”
More information: https://master.epfl.ch/programs/life-sciences-engineering