Hey,
I’m really confused about which course I should do. GAtech is one of my dream colleges (probably THE dream college) but yeah. If i get in, I’m not sure if I wanna do Chem Engineering, Chem Engineering with biotechnology or Biomedical. The thing is, I’d really like to work on like tissue engineering and things like that. Biology is one of my favorite subjects. However, I’ve heard a lot about the disadvantage with a BME degree. Can someone help me? How do i work on something in biology with a chemE degree?? And should i take ChemE with biotech for that reason?
You are right chemical engineering and BME are overlapped. Look at the exact class requirements to learn more
but at GaTech, there are two semester sequenced subjects, so you should decide by the end of freshman year, which degree is best. You can go into GaTech as undecided engineering major by the way.
Chemical engineering is more focused on chemistry, thermodynamics and fluid flow, and chemical engineers tend to work either in pharmaceutical industry or for chemical companies scaling up the production of chemicals or drugs. A few chemical engineers work in the semiconductor industry, but they usually take a few EE classes to learn more about devices, and work on the manufacturing of chips. Those are more or less materials scientists, so working on solid state materials but most chemical engineers work on liquids, is one way to think of the field.
BME is a combination of physiology/biology and mechanical engineering /design with some electrical engineering.
BME grads may work in designing medical equipment or various orthodics, or prosthesis, but may end up in the biotech end of things too. The BME degree is very broad, so it attracts a lot of premedical students, who want to become surgeons, so they learn the mechanical side of the body, heart etc, in some programs.
Oh okay thanks! So i was just wondering, if i take chem engineering with biotech, would i still be able to get into a job like tissue engineering?
So most tissue engineering positions require a PhD. It can be in biology, chemical engineering or biomedical engineering, or maybe materials science. The main point is to study with a professor who does research in tissue engineering. You can try to find a research project as an undergraduate with any of the three undergraduate majors, chem e, biology or BME to learn more. Your undergraduate major may be less important than getting research experiences and verifying that you want a PhD. with a bachelors degree, you would be more of a technician, helping a PhD level scientist, and that is also a viable career in tissue engineering.
Look at Linked in under tissue engineering to learn more about this field, and who hires these types of scientists.
Most job postings do not specify an exact degree, but are more interested in the lab skills acquired, in graduate school and work in the field.