- Diploma prepared: Polytech Marseille engineer specializing in Biomedical Engineering.
- Average number of students in a class : 35
- Students' entry profiles: Physics, Computer Science, Electronics
- Fields of study (among the 12 in the Polytech network): Biomedical engineering, instrumentation
- Possible courses : Initial training (FI), Continuing education (FC), Professionalization contract in final year (CP)
- Campus : Luminy
Course objective
This program trains engineers specializing in high-tech materials and equipment for hospitals, care facilities and healthcare professionals.
For purely technical training, the emphasis is on instrumentation (physics, electronics, IT, signal processing), supplemented by courses in chemistry, biology, physiology, biomechanics, etc., essential for understanding the vast field of biomedical engineering ("from scanner to scalpel").
The curriculum is also designed to provide a sound understanding of the healthcare sector, its players (equipment suppliers and users) and its stringent regulatory and quality constraints, in a highly internationalized context.
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3rd year
Scientific and technical training
- Engineering mathematics, electronics, computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, signals and systems.
- Biomedical engineering: anatomy, physiology, instrumentation, operating room, anesthesia/resuscitation, functional support, sterilization, biological analyses, etc.
Business environment
Communication, English, marketing, economics.
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4th year
Scientific and technical training
- Automation, object-oriented programming, database, matlab, labview, neurophysiology, biomaterials, biomechanics, cell and applied biology.
- Biomedical engineering: medical radiophysics, ultrasound imaging, MRI, tomography.
- Tomography, X-rays, PET, biomechanics/biomaterials, NMR spectroscopy.
- Networks.
Business environment
English, quality management, sales and marketing, medical device market. Human relations management, personal professional project, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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5th year
Scientific and technical training
Networks, PHP/Web development, image analysis, numerical simulation/modeling, CAD
Biomedical engineering: medical imaging, new medical technologies, minimally invasive surgery techniques, health information systems,
Medical device marketing constraints.
Final year project.Business environment
English, Professional integration, Business law, Project management, Innovation and entrepreneurship,
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Double curriculum
Dual Master's degree in management
With a view to training dual-skilled engineers in high demand on the job market, all Polytech Marseille courses offer a dual degree program: engineering diploma + master's degree in management, in collaboration with Kedge, the Marseille business school.
Research master's degree
Open in 5th year for students interested in research careers and pursuing a thesis: Tissue and Implant Bioengineering.
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Semesters at other schools
Semester at another school in the Polytech network
A student enrolled at Polytech Marseille can spend the 5th year at another school in the Polytech network and still graduate in Marseille. He or she can choose one of the network's biological engineering schools:
- Polytech Annecy-Chambery: Digital Systems - Instrumentation
- Polytech Grenoble: Information Technology for Health
- Polytech Lille: Instrumentation and business engineering
- Polytech Lyon: Biomedical engineering
- Polytech Paris-Saclay: Photonics and optronic systems
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Further studies
- The IAE Aix-Marseille MSc program in management
- INSTN training courses in the nuclear field
- Specialized training in Nuclear Ventilation Engineering
- PhD thesis
Teaching environment
The teaching team is made up of teacher-researchers from research laboratories and training establishments in the Marseille area, working in a wide variety of fields: physics, life sciences, electronics, mechanics, medicine and pharmacy.
It is complemented by professionals working in hospitals (biomedical engineers from Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, medical physicists) and biomedical companies.
Example of teaching equipment
e-Health Platform
Technological equipment for the hospital sector is becoming increasingly miniaturized and increasingly communicative. These connected objects are becoming accessible to the general public, making it easy to measure health parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, brain signals, etc.
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e-Health Platform
Technological equipment for the hospital sector is becoming increasingly miniaturized and increasingly communicative. These connected objects are becoming accessible to the general public, making it easy to measure health parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, brain signals, etc.
TP Pressure loss
To make it easier for students to enter the workforce and develop their entrepreneurial spirit while providing theoretical training, Polytech Marseille offers students project-based teaching, internships and the possibility of a professionalization contract as part of their engineering curriculum.
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Professional integration
Polytech Marseille's Biomedical Engineering program trains engineers specializing in medical devices and software, to act as the interface between healthcare establishments and the biomedical and/or health technology industry.
Sectors of activity of Biomedical Engineering employers- 50% Manufacturers of medical devices and equipment
- 20% Consulting and engineering companies
- 15% Medical IT, healthcare software publishers
- 15% Public and private hospital sector
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Job opportunities
- Application engineer (product)
- Biomedical engineer in hospital or clinic
- Consulting engineer
- Clinical trials engineer
- Quality and regulatory affairs engineer
- R&D engineer
- Hospital physicist (after further training)
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Examples of graduate employers
ALTRAN TECHNOLOGIE I AGFA HEALTHCARE I ABOTT I AIR LIQUIDE MEDICAL SYSTEMS I ALTRAN I APHM I ASTON MEDICAL I AXS MEDICAL I BECTON DICKINSON BIOTECHNI I BIOSENSE WEBSTER I BIOTRONIK I BOSTON SCIENTIFIC I BRAINLAB I CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS I CAPGEMINI I CERNER FRANCE I COMEG I MEDICAL DRÄGER MEDICAL I DMS IMAGING I DOCTOLIB I DRÄGER I EDAP I ENOVACOM I EOS IMAGING I EUROS SAS I EXCELYA I GENERAL ELECTRIC HEALTHCARE I HEMADIALYSEEMA IHEMODIA I IDEAL MEDICAL PRODUCTS ENGINEERING I INTERVASCULAR I JOHNSON & JOHNSON I KEEN EYE KEPHALIOS I KEYRUS MEDTECH I MEDTRONIC I OLEA MEDICAL I OLYMPUS FRANCE I PERKIN ELMER I PHILIPS HEALTHCARE I PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS I QUANTIFICARE I ST JUDE MEDICAL I SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS I SARTORIUS I SIEMENS HEALTHCARE I SOFTWAY MEDICAL I SONOSITE FRANCE, FUJIFILM I SOPRA STERIA I SOPRO ACTEON I STAGO I STEPHANIX I STRYKER I SUPERSONIC IMAGINE I THALES I THERAPIXEL TORNIER I TOSHIBA I UGAP I ZIMMER BIOME
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Project-based teaching
Les rencontres du biomédical
Les Rencontres du Biomédical, an event organized by 2nd-year engineering students in Polytech Marseille's Biomedical Engineering program, is held in collaboration with the Proving Forum association. This recruitment forum takes place on the Luminy campus. The day is an opportunity for engineering students to exchange ideas with professionals in the biomedical field, and to discover innovations and careers in the biomedical sector.
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Courses
Students in our program take part in three compulsory internships, which are evaluated by the internship supervisor and the school's teaching staff.
- 3rd year: company discovery internship, 4 to 6 weeks, starting in early June
- 4th year: internship in a company or laboratory, minimum 8 weeks, starting in early June
- 5th year: industrial internship, 5 months minimum, starting mid-February
The majority of our students carry out their internships in SMEs, VSEs and start-ups, and the remainder in large companies, research laboratories and local authorities.
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Professionalization contract
Our engineering students have the opportunity to complete their final year of the engineering cycle under a work-study contract with the following work-study schedule:
- September to January: Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday at school, Thursday-Friday in the company
- January to April: Monday-Tuesday at school, Wednesday-Thursday-Friday on the job
- From April: full-time at the company
Since the class of 2022, international mobility has been a requirement for the Polytech Marseille engineering diploma. It must be 12 weeks "cumulative post-baccalaureate", with a minimum of 4 consecutive weeks. The mobility options provided for in Polytech Marseille's study regulations are as follows:
- Study semester abroad
- Internships
- Employment
- Woofing
- Foreign students who have completed part of their studies in their home country.
- Gap year
Study semesters abroad
Semesters abroad, mainly in 4A and 5A (Semesters 7, 8 and mainly 9 and/or 10), are encouraged by a series of bilateral agreements (ERASMUS, Hors Europe, CIVIS, BRAFITEC, etc.) linking the University, the School and our program with other foreign universities (Japan, Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain, etc.). In the "Mechanics and Energetics" department, our preferred partner universities include :
- Linkopings Universitet (Sweden)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
- Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (Canada)
- University of Toronto (Canada)
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada)
- Kobe University (Japan)
- Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro (ITQ) (Mexico)
- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM) (Chile)
- Università di Bologna (Italy)
- Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
- Korea University (South Korea)
- Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- University College Dublin (Ireland)
Internships abroad
Internships, particularly in 3A and 4A, are also carried out in foreign companies or research laboratories (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Great Britain, China, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Ecuador, USA, Belgium, Turkey, Ivory Coast, Andorra, Togo, Switzerland, Lebanon).
