Biomedical Engineer

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To truly understand a biomedical engineer, you must first understand the times we live in today. Today we live in a time of great technology and medicine. Life expectancies have never been higher; that is because of the inventions and innovations like artificial hearts and limbs. Biomedical engineer’s overall goal is to improve the human way of life. Biomedical engineers work on anything from nanotechnology, to artificial organs and limbs, to medical devices.
They may work in labs, pharmaceutical research facilities or even in biotechnology companies; their schooling teaches them how to solve health and medical problems using mathematics, engineering, and problem solving. This aids them in developing of the technologies and making it a reality. They are similar mechanical engineers but they deal with medicine and the human body instead.
There are many paths to becoming a biomedical engineer. One is to have a Masters in Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelors in engineering. Many colleges and universities offer these degrees, and every year additional schools add this to their program list. After getting a degree in biomedical engineering, graduates have many choices, one of them is to go straight into the field as strictly a biomedical engineer with a masters; certain people wanting more can go onto to medical school to become a doctor. Others just get their PhD in biomedical engineering, some chose to just get a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering/ biomedical engineering.
The most interesting part of this career is developing nanotechnology. They may cure diseases or slow the aging progress. Most nano-devices are as small as 100 nanometers across so, they are built on the atomic scale. If put into the human body and designed pro...

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...and women we wouldn’t have as many medical breakthroughs like nanotech, and artificial organs and limbs. This is a growing field and profession, highlighted by the low unemployment, higher starting salary, and by the fact that colleges and universities are adding this program to their fields of study. The field can have a major impact on human longevity with their contributions to the nanotechnology, artificial organs and limbs, and medical devices.

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