<p>Well, I'm going to cornell for Biological Engineering (Bachelor Degree) this year yet I suddenly realized that I've probably idealized it to what I wanted it to be, and never looked at the reality side of this major. I don't know all that well what this major is about and what it'll take me to.</p>
<p>So here are a few simple questions I need you guys to help me clearify.</p>
<p>1) What are my academic options after it?
2) What are my career options?
3) Who will I work for?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>Its hard to define exactly what a bioengineer does. The field is very broad. Some people study the mechanics of the body (biomechanics), some people design prosthetic limbs, some people go into drug design, some people go into tissue engineering, some people go into human/machine interface design, some people design medical equipment (MRI, various probes.....). Most people find some area of engineering they like (mechanics, chemE, electronics, systems...) and apply the fundamentals of those fields to solving problems in biology or medicine that biologists can't solve.</p>
<p>application of engineering to medicine and biology. Any form, any shape.</p>
<p>It's too new of a field to have any type of idea what "most" bioengineers do. As stated above, biomechanics, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biomedical imaging are the big four areas of bioE right now, but who knows what the future has in store?
Some jobs you can do with a bioE degree are: doctor, research, pharmaceuticals, law (patent), or with medical equipment.
If you actually want to be a bioengineer (ie not go pre-med/pre-law), you'll either be researching for a company/university or be an engineer at a pharma company like Genentec/Amgen/Phizer/etc and make drugs to cure "old, rich, sick people" (verbatim from a seminar I took =P).</p>