Career Choices in Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineers complete their training with the knowledge attitude and skills required to:
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discover, develop, and produce modern pharmaceuticals
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create and bring to market new classes of medical devices, often ones which play a life-sustaining, life-supporting role
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establish engineering data and drive the achievement of quantitative approaches to biologic issues
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develop and implement integrative models for complex biomedical systems
Biomedical Engineering is a platform concentration which prepares students for a very wide variety of career opportunities. Academic and research opportunities are expanding in parallel with the ever-increasing scope of healthcare in our times. Strong biomedical engineers are in demand by large pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, and biotech startups. Careers in patent law, consulting, and general management represent additional attractive possibilities.
Students wishing to achieve a leadership position in the technical side of industrial biomedical engineering need to obtain advance degrees and should plan on postgraduate education. Brown BME graduates are currently enrolled in graduate programs at MIT, Stanford, UCSD, and Pittsburgh, among others. Many students elect to work in industry or academic research settings for one to three years before resuming graduate studies. Still others take advantage of Brown's integrated 5-year Master's program to complete their pre-doctoral studies at Brown.
Biomedical Engineering is also an attractive pre-med concentration, subject to the usual caveats about an appropriate cumulative grade average for this field. About a third of BME concentrators at Brown go on to medical school and the concentration has been elected by several PLME's an appropriate cumulative grade average for this field. About a third of BME concentrators at Brown go on to medical school and the concentration has been elected by several PLME's
