Midsemester Quiz: A 1-hour closed book quiz done during the scheduled Week 9 lecture session, designed to assess the students’ ability to describe and discuss multiple fundamental aspects of biomaterials science and engineering taught in Weeks 1-8.

End-of-semester Quiz: A 1-hour closed book quiz done during the scheduled Week 13 lecture session, designed to assess the students’ ability to describe and discuss multiple fundamental aspects of biomaterials science and engineering taught in Weeks 9-12.

Tutorial based learning activities: A series of scavenger-hunt style mini-assessments, including research-based and practical-based tasks, which encourage students to seek additional knowledge and content from external sources, and apply their knowledge and findings in the completion of these activities.

Lecture quizzes: ~1% weekly MCQ/short answer quizzes assessing student’s ability to recall key concepts and facts. These can be completed during and/or after the lecture – no specified time limit is applied, but must be completed before the tutorial sessions.

Lecture participation: Mini-activities done within the lecture session with a buddy partner for a small % of the course mark. Can be completed asynchronously.

Biomaterials in Industry Report and Viva: Students write up an investigative report on the biomaterials used in specific commercially available medical devices and implants, and assess the suitability of the biomaterials in these biomedical applications. This is an assessment for groups of four to five students. Students will then be subject to a group-based Q&A viva session where the understanding of the topic and the fact-checking and research capabilities will be further explored. Reports will be marked as a group. Viva performances will be marked individually. 

New Biomaterial for Industry: Students form hypothetical medtech companies, and propose the use of recently developed biomaterials in literature to replace currently used biomaterials for a new product. Students need to consider not only biomaterials aspects, but also potential cost and manufacturing aspects. The groups will be identical to the previous “Biomaterials in Industry Report”. Groups write up a 3-4 page report on the rationale of biomaterial choice for their new product. Students will then be subject to a group-based Q&A viva session where the understanding of the topic and the fact-checking and research capabilities will be further explored. Reports will be marked as a group. Viva performances will be marked individually.