Hello,
I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering 3 years ago. (My degree was in electrical engineering and I work in computer science.) Over time I realized that the only engineering field that I would be interested in working with as my career is probably the biomedical engineering subfield of neural engineering. I’m beginning considering going to graduate school to get a master’s degree in neural engineering somewhere in the US.
However, I’m interested in knowing what kinds of professional opportunities are available in this field? It would be cool to make neural engineering a career, but I don’t think I want to be a college professor just to work in a field I’m interested in. I also am not sure how I feel about having to move across multiple states just to find a job… I have a boyfriend. Eventually in my life I’m probably gonna want to settle down somewhere. There are a lot of jobs all over the country in every state for popular degrees like electrical engineering or computer science, but are neuroengineering jobs available, whether working in industry or as part of a lab? I probably wouldn’t mind working in a different biomedical engineering field either. With a neural engineering degree, can you get other biomedical engineering jobs more easily in industry or research? How popular are biomedical engineering jobs in general?
I’m talking realistically. Not just “oh the door is open for you everywhere after you get your master’s degree in any engineering field”, unless that’s how you truly feel.
Thanks!