Suggestions on a degree for ds - combination of biology/ medicine, physics/engineering

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DS is struggling to find ideas as to exactly what he wants to study - he is doing biology, physics, maths and product design A level (plus gold level EESE), and should get A, A, A, A with the A in biology. He knows he doesn't want to do straight physics, biology or engineering, and is thinking along the lines of medical physics (gets it from his mum), but is also interested in bio material engineering as he really doesn't want to move away from more practical design aspects that still play to his biology strength.
Any suggestions for things he might not have thought about?

Is it worth looking at the more specialised Masters degrees that appeal now and working backwards to the undergrad degrees that would enable those?

@WarningToTheCurious he'd find it really hard to do three years of 'base' work for the promise of an interesting masters.

Imperial would be great, and I've done some interesting work with the healthcare technology entrepreneur group, but they need a higher maths grade than he is likely to get unless he really pulls the rabbit out of the hat

QMUL as backup? https://www.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/coursefinder/courses/2023/biomedical-engineering/

My DS is considering a degree in Sports Engineering. It covers quite a lot of different things from design and manufacture of sports equipment and monitoring devices to design of prosthetic limbs etc. Would something like that be of interest?

Thank you @Titchy , that looks like a really good course

@MrsAvocet I thought that sports engineering at Loughborough looked good, but apparently not. TBF his sports interests are strictly cycling and rowing which though technical are prob not a great focus of a group like that

And thank you all for the suggestions, its super helpful to find different ideas even if its to cross them off

Bit of warning as an engineering grad - he will probably have to do at least two years of more boring generalised stuff before he gets to anything exciting anyway :)

I only really started enjoying my degree in my final year where I did my final project.

Suggest he looks at Strathclyde's engineering degrees, eg Biomedical (2), Product Design, Prosthetics & Orthotics, and also Sports Engineering.

Another vote for prosthetics design and engineering. A friend's son did it at Portsmouth or Southampton, I think.

What about bio robotics? It's becoming a fast growing field but it would be useful to have some electrical engineering background for it.

Sorry to hijack the thread OP...but can I ask @ICouldHaveCheckedFirst have you got recent experience of Strathclyde? It's probably my DS's first choice currently - he's particularly interested in the sports engineering degrees which I do think sound very good but it's not a University I know much about. It does seem to be on the up in the league tables and Glasgow seems an interesting city, and is a really easy journey from where we live so I definitely think he should look at it. It's just his school tends to have a lot of pupils go to the same few Universities. It's a good school but I do think they tend to promote a few places a bit too much at the potential expense of encouraging pupils to look at every option and I'd be very keen to hear any recent experiences of Strathclyde.

Sheffield biology put on the best offer holder day DS attended last year and he made it his insurance. www.sheffield.ac.uk/bioengineering
www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/digital-foot-could-revolutionise-bionic-limbs-and-other-assistive-technologies

CMOT, yes it was DD who did an intercalated biomedical engineering degree at Imperial, after prevaricating a bit in sixth form about whether she wanted to be a doctor or engineer.

So far she enjoys medicine so made the right call, but intercalation provides a move sideways for those who realise belatedly that medicine is not for them. As an Imperial graduate she gets job adverts with (very) impressive starting salaries. She still has the option of going back and taking a PhD should medicine start to pall.

She applied for a couple of other biomedical engineering intercalations: KCL and UCL, and decided not to apply to QMUL, but they seemed more radiography oriented. At Imperial they were essentially thrown into the third year of the biomedical engineering Integrated masters, though all the courses DD picked were open to Masters students as well. One surprise was how broad the subject was, with a huge range from biomechanics through nano technology to biochemistry. It would be worth looking at the course options as there should be something for most sciencey students. It would be a difficult course without a good maths aptitude. (I just noted your comment about his maths. Good maths is needed.) However if there are areas that appeal, they may be offered on more specialist courses elsewhere.

Lots is happening in the field and there was a sense of innovation going on all around. I saw a piece on TV about new types of artificial limbs and DD confirmed it was students in the year above. DDs group project was also very cool, drawing from advances in gaming technology. At least cool if you are that sort of young person.

@MrsAvocet - not really, sorry. The engineering faculty is highly regarded and has strong links with industry. It encourages students to get industrial experience over the summer. Sometimes this can earn them credits, as well as invaluable experience.
Glasgow has 3 universities, 2 of them in the city centre, so it's popular and very lively, though accommodation has been an issue in recent years.

Thanks @ICouldHaveCheckedFirst
My DH is an engineer (totally different field) and has a couple of colleagues who went there and were happy , but over 20 years ago so I imagine things have changed a bit! DS is a fairly high achiever and I have a feeling that school will exert a bit of pressure on him to apply for more obviously "prestigious" establishments, but I'm keen he finds somewhere that's a good fit for him as an individual and the Strathclyde course description has really grabbed him - more so than Loughborough in fact. We shall visit both of course though, which may change things!