Master of Bioscience Engineering: Human Health Engineering
KU Leuven
About this program
Master of Bioscience Engineering: Human Health Engineering
This master's degree applies the unique combination of human physiology and engineering in a broad range of areas for healthy humans: quality of life, sports and active life, nutrition, intelligent environments and preventive health monitoring.
The interdisciplinary Master of BioscienceEngineering: Human Health Engineering (HHE)offers a unique program and educational vision focusing on technology for healthy humans. HHE is a program that applies the unique combination of human physiology and engineering in a broad range of areas for healthy humans: quality of life, sports and active life, nutrition, intelligent environments and preventive health monitoring. The program progresses from biology onward to technology, not vice versa as is often the case in most engineering programs. In this way, the program aims at developing new technology in a more efficient way, meeting the high expectations of users.
Admission requirements
This program is open to any applicant holding an academic bachelor's degree in bioengineering, holders of an academic bachelor's degree in engineering and holders of other bachelor's or master's degrees encompassing thorough coursework in at least mathematics and statistics, physics, biology and physiology.
This degree should be obtained at a recognized university, college or institute, with an end result of at least second class upper or equivalent. The admission decision is evaluated by the program director on the basis of the required documents provided by />the applicant through the official online application procedure. All applicants need to meet the minimum language requirements of KU Leuven. In addition, they need to have obtained minimum scores of at least 18/30 (TOEFL) or 6/9 (IELTS) on each of the components tested (reading, writing, speaking, listening).
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Program content
Master Thesis
Option A
- Master’s Thesis Human Health Engineering: Part I - Semester 1
- Master’s Thesis Human Health Engineering: Part II - Semester 2
Option B
- Master’s Thesis Human Health Engineering: Part I - Semester 2
- Master’s Thesis Human Health Engineering: Part II - Semester 1
Trucus Communis
- Biofluidics
- Measurement Systems
- Modelling of Biosystems
- Project Work Biosystems Engineering
- Sustainability Assessment for Biosystems
- European Perspectives on Religion and Meaning
- Control of Biosystems
Major Segment
- Functional Anatomy of the Human Locomotor System
- Biomedical Measurements and Stimulation
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
- Human System Physiology
- Health Psychology Part 2: Biopsychological Interactions
- Biomedical Data Processing
- Human Nutrition
Minor Segment
- Reorientation Minor
- Minor
- Thematic Minor
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available, Please visit the university website for more information.
Program delivery
The courses are taught in English.
Tuition
Please visit the university website for more information about tuition fees icts.kuleuven.be/apps/tuitionfees/
Qualification
Credits: 120 ECTS
Career paths
This master's degree will turn you into an integrator who is capable of translating physiological and psychological knowledge into advanced technological solutions for monitoring and improving human health. You end up working in health-related domains (sports, well-being, rehabilitation, prevention, ergonomics, safety, etc.)
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KU Leuven. Inspiring the Outstanding
KU Leuven is Europe’s most innovative university. Located in Belgium, it is dedicated to research, education, and service to society. KU Leuven is a founding member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and has a strong European and...
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