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What are the different and possibly unique career opportunities for someone with a biomedical engineering degree?

I am a high school senior. I plan on pursuing my degree in the field of engineering, but I am struggling with the right discipline. I would like to know some real world applications. #engineering #engineer #biomedical-engineering #biomedical #biomedical-engineer

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Lindsay’s Answer

Hi there Kellen,
There are many different paths that people with degrees in biomedical engineering can take. Here are a few of the paths that I know of...
med school (doctor), PhD (biomedical research / professor), law school (patent law or other), engineer in industry
For Engineer in Industry, there are also many branches / paths: design of medical devices like orthopedic implants, cardiac pacemakers, MRI imaging machines, or developing drugs like oncology/cancer therapies, arthritis medications, or drug delivery devices like new implantable time-release chips, etc. Some people also end up in regulatory environments like working for the FDA reviewing new applications for drugs/devices, or in quality assurance designing quality systems for healthcare companies. I also know a few biomedical engineers who started their own companies - entrepreneurs. There are a ton of options!
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Katherine’s Answer

There are other more specific opportunities that you can branch into such as tissue engineering. These are crossovers between BME and aerospace engineering such as taking human factors into NASA designs due to the need of supporting life in 0Genvironments etc. If you got some experience in med device first, there are opportunities as clinical specialists that support cases in the hospital from an engineering perspective.
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