<p>Hello,
I am interested in the field of Biomedical engineering and would like to obtain a Masters degree in this field. I have read many threads here and know the advice to major in one of the traditional engineering tracks. I am trying to choose between Mechanical or Chemical Engineering. My Question is:</p>
<p>Between Mechanical and Chemical, how do the concepts learned in each of these majors transfer to Biomedical engineering topics? And what concepts are unrelated to Biomedical?</p>
<p>(Thank you for your help and thoughts)</p>
<p>The answer to your question depends on what area of BME you are interested in. </p>
<p>Mech E: This is if you want to design biomedical robots, or want to do biomechanical modeling, or some biomechanics work (perhaps a prosthetics, etc) </p>
<p>EE: Need this for Robotics as well, as well as prosthetics, medical imaging, neural signal processing, biomedical instrumentation, etc</p>
<p>Chem E: More along the lines of flow, physiological fluid mechanics, transport phenomenon, perhaps some tissue engineering, etc.</p>
<p>I would personally say that if you WANT to do BME, why not just consider a BS in BME from the start? If not, perhaps EE would be a strong major. EE is the closest to BME in terms of application (prosthetics, instrumentation, signal processing, medical imaging, etc). ME is next. Chem E is somewhat behind. Material Science is really useful for Biomaterials, Cell/Tissue engineering, etc. CS would be good if you want to do computer vision, medical imaging, etc.</p>