Information for the student – Biomedical Engineering

The Master’s Final Project (TFM) requires a workload of 250–300 hours per student, including the preparation of the written report. If you are enrolled under an ERASMUS+ Internship grant, the same rules as for a standard TFM apply, with the only difference being that the work is carried out abroad. For TFMs completed under a standard ERASMUS+ study grant, the regulations of the host university apply.

To be eligible to defend the TFM, students must have passed all mandatory and elective courses, completing a total of 50 ECTS credits (up to 62 ECTS if bridging courses were required). It is not possible to sign the TFM proceedings (the final step before requesting the degree) unless all theoretical credits have been completed.

Each TFM will have a director who holds at least a master’s degree (MECES 3 / EQF 7) and is responsible for supervising and guiding the student throughout the project. The director’s authorization is required to submit the TFM report to the evaluation committee. If the director does not belong to one of the departments involved in teaching the master’s programme, the student must appoint an eligible tutor (proposals can be made through the TFM coordination).

Once enrolled in the TFM (10 ECTS), three mandatory steps must be completed: Registration, Supervision Meeting, Deposit, and Defense.

Except for the Supervision Meeting, which is general, there are two deadlines for each step. One corresponds to students intending to defend in the first TFM call (Q1), which allows either on-site or online defenses. The second deadline applies to students who defer their defense to the Q1r call, for which only online defenses are permitted.

Throughout the entire process, only documents signed with a valid digital certificate will be accepted (FMNT, DNIe, T-CAT, IdCAT, UB TUI , or UPC digital ID). Some of these certificates may take several weeks to obtain, so students are strongly advised to plan ahead.

The Project will be defended publicly by the student in front of an Evaluation Committee, which will grade it according to the following guidelines:
TFM Evaluation Proceeding.

The maximum duration of the defense is 50 minutes: 20 minutes for the presentation followed by up to 30 minutes of questions.

For students defending in calls Q1 and Q2, two presentation modalities are available:

• Face-to-face (available only for Q1 and Q2 defenses)
• Synchronous online defense via Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams (available for any call Q1, Q1r, Q2 i Q2r))

The calendar of calls for the current academic year can be found below.

More details are available at the Virtual Campus once enrolled.