<p>Hi,</p>
<p>At first I had ruled out BME because the idea of making artificial hearts, or other supplies all day bores me. Is there anything BMEs do besides build these types of things, or is that really all they do?</p>
<p>btw, please answer my other thread about management in engineering. I really want to know</p>
<p>umm. I'm in BME and I'm doing "biocomputation" (basically focusing on CompSci - hoping to use this background to get into medical robotics and computer integrated surgery.)</p>
<p>If you find "making artificial hearts, or other supplies all day" boring then you should reconsider engineering in general. I can imagine few more interesting problems in modern engineering than artificial hearts. Your statement makes it feel like you think it's a tediously repetitive experience. Most BMEs (a lot of engineers too) after a bachelors degree would jump at the opportunity to design artificial hearts. Don't underestimate the difficulty and the amount of knowledge that goes into artificial hearts and various other implantable medical devices.</p>
<p>My professor does research in using microfluidics in cell cultures to create different gradients of macromolecules and observe the cell response (gene level, protein level, etc...) in trying to achieve a better understanding of cell/tissue development, how cells may become cancerous, etc...</p>
<p>Artificial organs is only a part of BME, I'm on the BioElectrical side of BME and focus on MEMS and other micro systems. Other BioElectrical work includes BioImaging, Neural Engineering, etc...</p>
<p>The BME research world has many opprotunities and I would advise you to get your bachelors degree in a traditional Engineering field prior to entering BME. I think BME bachelors degrees are inferior to traditional Engineering degrees (unless you are going to Med School) and if you really want to go into BME TODAY it should be for research, not industry and you should get your graduate education in this topic with an undergraduate focus in one of the traditional fields. I am personally using my EE degree as a tool for my graduate education in BME. Just my $0.02.</p>