<p>I am rising undergrad this year, and I have been accepted to few engineering schools.</p>
<p>My goal for rest of my life is trying to find a better way to live by using techniques that will be used for our benefit.</p>
<p>I researched that there is a particular major in ChemE that deals with environment. I am interested in finding a way to slow down and reverse the global warming.</p>
<p>Also I researched about Biomedical Engineering, and I was intrigued long before to Biomed E long before when I started to think about Chem E. </p>
<p>As a undergrad, I want to major in one of these engineering, and I want to study medicine in future MD and Ph.D, specifically a missionary doctor.</p>
<p>Which major do you think it will benefit in my medicine career. I wish I can major in both, but that would be difficult. </p>
<p>How are the classes in Chem E and Biomed E?</p>
<p>both are good engineering choices for med-school admission, and both cover the requirements, but if you're interested in the environment chemE is the better option. it will expose you to more rigorous energy transfer courses that will give you a solid understanding of how the environment works as several related systems. but for chemE good math skills and a high interest in chemistry is required.</p>
<p>BME will relate more to your future MD-phD plans and will give you a survey of biotechnology. </p>
<p>So, for chemE vs BME, these are the questions you should be asking yourself:</p>
<p>am i more interested in the environment and energy engineering, or biotechnology and mechanics?</p>
<p>do i like chemistry more, or biology?</p>
<p>is doing life-science stuff before medical school important to me?</p>
<p>You won't be doing environmental research as an MD-phD. If you do medical device research, then BME will benefit more. If you do research in the pharmaceutical realm, chemE will benefit more. For practicing medicine as a missionary doctor, an MPH would probably help the most, not a research degree.</p>
<p>I don't know how admission is for med school, but I would worry about my gpa with those majors. Others applying will have majored in underwater basket weaving and have a 4.0, but major doesn't always seem to matter.</p>
<p>I know that carnegie mellon offers biomedical as a double major, which allows you to take both chemical and biomedical without too rigous of a schedule</p>
<p>If you want to do medicine, then bioe >> cheme. You will actually learn things about physiology and biology in the major and most traditional engineering courses such as transport will have a biomedical focus rather than learning about distillation columns. People i have met who have done the double major thing have NEVER given it a favorable review.</p>