<p>If I am accepted next year to CMU, I would seriously consider BME because that's the engineering field that I say to myself, "I want to do that", the most. </p>
<p>So a few questions:</p>
<p>1) I think that you can only double major BME if major one is also engineering related, correct? Or can you do anything?</p>
<p>2) Besides BME I'm considering EE and Aerospace too. How big/small is the overlap of these classes and is the work manageable? I'm good with keeping top of my workload when I put my mind to it.</p>
<p>3) What is the probability that BME no longer requires a double major within the next two years for CMU? Subjective question, I know.</p>
<p>Caveat: I am in CIT (the engineering college), but I’m a MechE and not with a BME double…however, I can definitely answer at least a few of your questions…</p>
<p>1) Yes, in order to have BME as your second major, your primary major must be one of five “traditional” majors in CIT - e.g. Civil/Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical/Computer, or Materials. Most common combinations seem to be ChemE/BME, MSE/BME, some MechE/BME. Very few ECE/BME, and I’ve never met a CivE/BME, but maybe one exists…obviously wouldn’t make much sense in general, though.</p>
<p>2) Well, CMU has ECE (electrical and computer engineering), but no aerospace. As I said, there are very few ECE/BME double majors, but they exist. It’s tough - ECE is a very hard major, and adding BME on top of it doesn’t help. It’s doable, though, for sure. It would help if you have a good amount of AP credit, but that’s not necessary or anything. </p>
<p>3) Uh…I mean, I haven’t heard anything about the possibility of a switchover, so I would say it’s pretty unlikely, unless you’ve heard something I haven’t. A lot (all?) of the BME faculty is only BME faculty by virtue of having a joint appointment. So having a standalone BME dept would probably require a lot of changes to the BME faculty, etc…wouldn’t be an easy switch by any means.</p>
<p>I’m a ChemE/BME, but going into my sophomore year so I’ve only taken the both the intro courses.</p>
<p>For the overlap between ECE and BME, its is possible. Actually, one of my professors for the BME intro course was a ECE/BME, as well as my adviser. At CMU there are 5 tracks in the BME program, each with a different emphasis, and they all align best with one or two of the traditional engineering disciplines. The Biomedical Signal and Image Processing track is the one that matches closest with ECE. </p>
<p>About BME as a stand alone major, its pretty unlikely. There has apparently been talk about it for a few years, but my class was told it wasn’t going to happen before we graduate.</p>