<p>what jobs could one get with JUST a bachelors in science engineering in biomedical engineering?</p>
<p>particularly, graduating from columbia, pursuing a tract of cell and tissue engineering?</p>
<p>lab technician?
anything related to bio, you need to go to graduate school to have a decent job.</p>
<p>not true, I have friends that graduated with a BS in BME and now work at GE, Medtronic, etc</p>
<p>LMAO at lab technician.are you serious?</p>
<p>And engineer as a lab technician. Thats funny. A bio major yea, engineer no way would one stoop that low unless their grades were horrible. Even the lowest paying biomed job starts around 30 grand, and the norm being about 45-50, at least from my school. Technicians dont make nearly that much.</p>
<p>The goal of tissue/cell engineering is to Create replacement for tissue/cell(reconstruction). It covers materials(ya, fancy word nano tech, too), etc. Most of this kind of research are lab works. Who is going to do research? PhDs. With B.S, what you do? Lab technicians:)</p>
<p>Those go to GE, Medtronics are more likely focus on Instrumentation/Sensors. More tend to traditional EE field.</p>
<p>If you graduate from bioengineering, you may not be able to be called an engineer. Truth is, most BME related companies tend to hire traditional engineering major graduates as they believe those traditional eng. graduates are more skillful in their focused field. BME, yes, you know everything, but neither is that good. Now there is a trend to bring more biology knowlege to BME, such as tissue/cell staff. Everyone knows that biology job has a low pay history.</p>
<p>Are you a biomed? I am and I can say yes you can work as a biomed engineers and companies will gladly take you, from the right schools, and in the right areas. In new england its cake to get a biomed eng. job even without a phd. Most companies feel you out around here then either pay for you to get your Phd or MBA. Biomed isnt as new as people think it is its been around since the 60s-70s. Biomed companies used to only hire other engineers this is no longer the practice since biomeds are much better trained in their particular discipline of choosing be it biomechanics, or bioinstrumentation or biomaterials. BMEs are trained just for that field, and if a company wants someone to fill that job they will take a BME over an EE or ChemE who just has a normal engineering degree. From my experiences at least.</p>
<p>Was, not any more. The point I want to make is,BMEs need to get graduate degree for a decent job in this field. And traditional engineers can also find a lot of opportunities including BME field. Some of my classmates graduated with PhD/MS from top BME schools like JHU, Upenn,Case are no longer in the field, while my other classmates with PhD in EE are entering the field. Companies like Philips Medical, GE Medical, etc have a lot of EE, physics,mechanics graduates, off course, BMEs too.</p>
<p>Did you not listen to what I said. To get a job all you need is a B.S. the company you work for will most likely send you for the higher degrees. At least around here all the bigs GE, Phizer, ALL send you for higher degrees using their money. That way they don't have to pay you a big salary right off the bat. They are able to get talent cheap this way, nuture it and write off what they use to send you for higher education. They gain a lot by doing this. Tiny companies usually don't do this. But tiny companies also don't have the good biomed jobs. </p>
<p>If those people you know have top degrees from top schools in all honesty they must not be good engineers. Sure they can spit a book at you, but make them put something to acutal application and build it and do everything by themselves and they can't. Thats what separates good engineers from bad engineers. The good ones can actually do mechanical things and truely know how things will truely work not theoretically. The bad engineers can give you all the information in the world but can't apply it the way it would be in real life. And that is where the other engineering fields come into play MechE, etc all usually know how to apply things so they get the job. Some BME programs are garbage when it comes to actual applications and some companies know this and those people don't get jobs.</p>