<p>I've done my search and it seems that the general consensus for a BME career path is to NOT major in something so narrow such as BME itself, or biological engineering as undergrad. The 3 most common answers I've seen are EE, ChemE, and MechE. Could anyone provide insight as to why each major would be beneficial to my BME goals or perhaps mention another undergrad major that would be a good substitute? I seriously have no idea what I want to specialize in engineering at the moment.</p>
<p>Ahah, I actually made a similar thread to this before since I’m in a slightly different situation, but nobody replied. But I’ve pored over these forums and found some information that you might find useful. Hope it helps!!</p>
<p>EE: electric/opto medical instruments, robotics, prosthetics, medical imaging, neural signal processing, biomedical instrumentation, etc. For students wishing to study the design and development of medical devices, signal processing, and medical imaging. </p>
<p>ChemE: More along the lines of flow, physiological fluid mechanics, transport phenomenon, designing biocompatible materials for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications, etc. For studies of transport within physiological systems, drug delivery, and development of engineered tissues. </p>
<p>MechE: heart valves, artificial limbs, biomedical robots, biomechanical modeling, or some biomechanics work (perhaps prosthetics, etc) For studies of the mechanics of the human body in health and disease and applications to medical devices and orthopedics.</p>
<p>I’m sorry if some parts are a little repetitive. This is actually a combination of three posts I’ve found about the subject. >>;</p>
<p>EE and MechE are the best choices if you are working outside of the body, but if you actually want to work at the cellular/molecular level or even systems level then you should major in BME.</p>
<p>Hopkins, wouldn’t you say that a chemE major could do better at all three levels?</p>