I want to become a biomedical engineer. How well does college prepare you for a career in this field?
I am taking a computer science class at my high school and this is a Project Lead The Way course. My teacher explained that the purpose of PLTW was to bridge the gap between college and a job. I would like to know how big the gap is between college classes in biomedical engineering and an actual job. Is there a big difference is the material you learned in college and the information needed for a career?
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凡鹏’s Answer
From my personal point of view, the university is with the society to shorten the psychological gap between students and social people and learning methods, the university is learning basic knowledge and theoretical courses, if engaged in industry and professional counterparts, so the subject foundation helps a lot, such as medicine and accounting, if engaged in industry is not counterpart, so the learning of professional knowledge used relatively less, more is learning things and regulations
Christopher’s Answer
Your undergraduate college experience in engineering will be one of laying a solid problem solving foundation. As far as what's done on a job?..the specific things that you would do on a job are closely related to what your company does to address a societal need.
Often times student-led research at a University is funded/sponsored by an industry or company. For example, if hospitals wanted a better way to monitor patients' vital statistics in a continuous fashion, they may fund research at a school for "fresh" ideas and concepts related to mobile patient monitoring. If they like the results of that research and decide to carry it forward, then there will be no better person to have on their team than YOU, the researcher that led the way as a student.