Medical Device Design Studio
A four-week evening studio for clinicians, designers, and engineers who want structured critique on an early-stage device idea before approaching a manufacturer.
Alderpath
Biomedical Engineering School in Cardiff — supervised laboratory programmes for people moving into clinical engineering, biomaterials practice, and medical device design.
Flagship offer
Foundation Laboratory Programme
Twelve weeks of instrument time, physiology clinics, and prototype critique for career changers and early-career technicians. Cohorts stay small so every station has a tutor within reach.
You leave with a signed skills log — not a marketing certificate — covering signal acquisition, sterile handling, and a documented device review.
Related programmes
Workshops and short courses
Evening studios, biomaterials weekends, and hospital-facing CPD days sit alongside the foundation cohort.
Clinical Engineering CPD Short Course
Focused refresher days on infusion pump verification, defibrillator checks, and documentation practices used in hospital estates and medical physics departments.
Biomaterials Bench Workshop
Hands-on weekends covering polymer casting, scaffold preparation, and basic mechanical testing of soft tissue surrogates under laboratory supervision.
On campus
Teaching laboratories you can book around
Physiology bays, biomaterials benches, and a verification corner used for CPD paperwork drills.
From recent cohorts
What learners noticed
“The physiology clinic weeks finally made electrode placement feel routine. I still found the early CAD critique sessions abrupt—comments arrived faster than I could redraw—but the finished skills log helped me through two NHS technician interviews.”
“I booked the infusion pump CPD day after a messy audit. The verification forms we practised matched what our workshop already used, so I could hand the notes straight to my line manager the next morning.”