<p>in the future everything will deal with medical devices. Heads up.</p>
<p>I must have missed the memo on that one.</p>
<p>Everything in the future won't deal with medical devices, so your recruiter is wrong. Don't go back to him ever.</p>
<p>/thread</p>
<p>It's more likely that medical devices will involve all aspects of engineering, and that might've been the recruiter's intent.</p>
<p>Mechanical
Electrical
Computer (CE & CS both)
Bio
Chemical
Aerospace (zero-grav research)
etc.</p>
<p>He's right. Other than the niche markets of energy production, ground/air/possibly space transportation, computers, everything will be medical.</p>
<p>I'm not entirely sure how transportation, computers, and energy production can possibly be considered 'niche markets'...</p>
<p>Merper68 was kidding. As for the OP, there've been plenty of threads around about how bio-whatever, which includes biomedical engineering, is seen as the hot field right now with all the advances in biology and computing. Aero was like that 50 years ago, and now--not so great. There will always be a large market for transport, energy, and computers, so those fields of engineering won't be disappearing anytime soon.</p>
<p>I'm in BME and let me tell you this, it's not true. Let's just say what he said was "silly". I could use stronger words, but silly will do.</p>
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<p>Actually, I think aero is a pretty good field to be in these days. Boeing is booming, the defense industry (and hence the aerospace defense industry) is booming because of the war. More importantly, few people are entering the industry, which means less competition. Biomed as an industry is booming, but the major problem is so is the enrollment in biomed, meaning that there may be many jobs, but also lots of competition for those jobs.</p>
<p>I have yet to see the evidence of all the jobs in biomed. I know there are many 'believers' among the undergraduates, but, so far, CC has only included bad end-of-school experiences. Has anybody actually gotten a job in this field? Remember, folks, hope is not a strategy!</p>
<p>I'm thinking of entering into an engineering program but I hate biology :(.
Tell me I would have plenty of others possibilities b/c I am undecided on my course of studies as is!</p>
<p>GIMEurSTRESballZ, unless you're going to Bio(Med)E it's unlikely that you will take biology. And if you're going into BioMedE (not BioE) it's even more so unlikely that you'll take traditional bio 101. Cell bio, genetics and all that to a small extent though.
Most engineers don't take bio. It's not a relevant science to engineering, and most of bio 101 that you take in college is not even remotely relevant to even BioE. (Save for physiology, anatomy, cells, and genetics) -- I'm talking about studying the 5 kingdoms, ecology, evolution (for its own sake), species other than humans etc...</p>
<p>Well for any of the engineering fields that biology is incorporated into, what are they all and what are the basic alternatives? I like the idea of engineering as a whole but the specific sub-section is very important to me</p>
<p>I don't understand your question.</p>
<p>What do you mean by basic alternatives? If you're an engineering major, you don't have to take biology if you don't want to. The closest encounter to bio in civil enginereing is environmental engineering where bacteria is discussed. You can study biology in conjunction with other majors, but that's purely optional.</p>
<p>In the near future jobs in the electric utility industry should be available. I work for electric utility company that hasn't hired new people in many years but in the past few years recruitment has been very important since many folks will be retiring in the next 10 to 15 years. Not only will there be engineering positions, but also non-engineering positions in operations, maintenance, instrumentation and testing, etc. And skilled professions such as boilermakers will need more workers as well. There are a lot of boilermakers at my plant right now and rarely do I see a guy younger than 35.</p>