Degree in Health Engineering La Salle Campus Barcelona

Bachelor in Health Engineering

Lead the biomedical engineering that will define the medicine of the future

Business and Engineering

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Description
The Business and Engineering subject responds to the needs of the sector for graduates with a multidisciplinary profile, trained to work in an increasingly globalized world. Today, a set of skills, known as soft skills, form a key part of any technical degree. In this subject, students develop interpersonal skills such as teamwork and conflict resolution, in a technological and intercultural environment. The program is taught exclusively in English to facilitate the improvement of students' communication skills in that language and equip them with the lexical and syntactic knowledge necessary to be able to express their ideas correctly and comfortably in a professional environment.
Type Subject
Primer - Obligatoria
Semester
Second
Course
1
Credits
4.00

Titular Professors

Lisa Kinnear
Professor
Previous Knowledge

Student are expected to have at least a B2 level of English, but are not required to submit accreditation.

Objectives

Students who take this subject acquire the knowledge and develop the skills indicated below:
1. Put into practice some of the basic concepts and techniques of business health management in a technological environment.
2. Adapt work styles to the latest professional trends in the health sector and the globalized world.
3. Develop mindsets and provide students with the tools they need to find solutions to the challenges of today's technological world.
4. Improve the level of spoken and written English of students through a personalized study program and a tracking system to obtain the B2.

Contents

Block 1: Language - Evaluate the students? level of English, raise awareness of the need to develop linguistic and communicative skills, as well as ?soft skills.?

Block 2: Reflect on the current state of the world in social, political, economic, and technological terms.

Block 3: Design Thinking project
Six-week project carried out in groups. Students work together to find a solution to a challenge from Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.

Block 4: Improve English knowledge. Preparation for official exams.

Methodology

MD0 Lectures
MD1 Problem-solving tasks and exercises
MD4 Seminar
MD5 Self-paced Learning
MD6 Project-based learning
MD7 Flipped Classroom
MD10 Real events
MD11 Challenge based learning
MD12 Grow through Experiences

Evaluation

Group presentation: The Globalistion of the Health sector 15% , group presentation: Hospital Sant Joan de Déu - a global reference 10% (staff, patients, design, materials, knowledge, practices, technologies), Design Thinking group project 55%, and English B2-C1 language exam 20%

Evaluation Criteria

For individual presentations, students are graded on communications skills (rapport, body language, eye contact), as well as linguistic mastery (pronunciation, accuracy, grammar and vocabulary and interactive communication). For the Design Thinking project, students are graded on each stage of the project, the content and delivery of the final presentation.Peer-to-peer avaluation is applied to 25% of the grade for groupwork.For the presentations and the DT project, students must obtain a minimum of 5.0 in order to pass the overll course. For the English language part of the subject, students must obtain a minimum grade of 3.5 in order to pass the overall course.

Basic Bibliography

See electronic folder of the subject.

Additional Material

See electronic folder of the subject.