I want to do biomedical engineering as a profession, but it has come to my attention that it is not an ideal major for an undergraduate degree. Therefore I was considering majoring in some other engineering for my undergraduate degree, and then if I would still like to pursue biomedical engineering, I can go to grad school for biomedical engineering.
My only problem is that I don’t know what engineering I should do for undergrad then. Should I do mechanical engineering or chemical engineering, or even electrical engineering? Or should I just do BME for undergrad and hope everything works out? Any input would be appreciated!
You shouldn’t go biomedical as an undergrad.
What you want to do is start researching what branch of biomedical engineering you want to do research in and then do the undergrad for the more general engineering degree (mech, ece, Chem) that is most relevant to that area you want to research.
The problem with college is that you kinda sorta have to know what you want to do as a job after you get your degree so you can take the appropriate courses in your major. A lot of people have no idea what they want to do.
So start doing your research now. You can always change majors during undergrad but that wastes time and money.
If you do end up changing majors, its not that big of a deal. Most people live with their parents after college anyway.
Some kids get lucky and have parents that knows how college works and groom their children for it by familirizing them with a wide range of topics, so the kid gets an idea of what they want to do. Unfortunately most kids aren’t that lucky, my parents never even went to college and I was a lazy high school student, been figuring this all out on my own.
Why is biomedical engineering/bioengineering bad? I’m planning on majoring in it as an undergrad and receive my masters.
There’s nothing wrong with it per se, but it’s kind of inflexible in my opinion. I’ve decided to major in mechanical engineering for undergrad and then if I still really want to pursue in biomedical engineering, I can get my masters then. Majoring in mechanical engineering for undergrad gives me more options right out of college than a degree in biomedical engineering since mechanical engineering is applicable to many fields right now while biomedical engineering is kind of limited.
my interests are bme and neuroscience
BME is crazy hard. You can kiss a grad school good bye if you do BME undergrad. It’s a GPA killer
Not like chemical or mechanical (the other two common paths to BME grad) are any easier.
The school I might go to, Stevens Institute of Technology, offers getting a BME MS in 5 years. Should I do that or do 4 years chemical engineering BS and then 2 years BME engineering MS. I want to design prosthetics and do tissue engineering and nano engineering which seems to fit in with biomedical engineering? PLEASE HELP