In the recent years the number of jobs in hybrid areas requiring expertise in two or more fields has been on the increase. The basic areas are mature enough to develop applications in areas with direct relevance to growth in the quality of life. Industry has taken keen interest in these areas due to their commercial potential. Biomedicalengineering, biotechnology and bioinformatics in the engineering are examples of emerging hybrid disciplines that are yielding good career.
Biomedical engineering potential is high according to United States Bureau of Labor statistics. Several thousand jobs have been created in the past few years giving employment to many. The anticipated growth is 21 percent in this area. It is estimated that nearly 3000 new careers will be created in industry in biomedical engineering by 2016. A survey in 2007, revealed that the average salary was US$80,000 and the salaries a paid to biomedical engineers working in medical equipment and supplies companies and in research and development approached $93000.
There is a difference between bioengineering and biomedical engineering that needs to be understood. Most schools given below (in USA) offer both programs and enjoy equal reputation in both areas. You should be very specific here.
Biomedical engineering is more like a derivative of electrical engineering geared toward interfacing between biological systems and technology for the purposes of creating things like prostheses. Bioengineering is more about understanding biological systems in engineering terms, for working with biological systems at a more fundamental level.
Bioengineers work in much applied areas of high relevance to industry in creating new products like drug delivery system. Technology for imaging body and its components, biomaterials for use in the body, organ replacement systems, artificial blood, cardiac assist devices, biochemical processing systems, tissue engineering, bioinstrumentation and physiological monitoring, methods of identifying and targeting cancerous tissues, sports medicine and rehabilitation. The complete list of applications is quite exhaustive but the above are a few examples of applications gaining high commercial interest.
How to Become a Biomedical ,Bioengineer-tips
There are many universities in most countries that offer undergraduate and graduate programs in biomedical engineering and bioengineering.
There are different curricular tracks that the schools offer like mechanical engineering oriented track, premedical track, chemical engineering oriented track, biotechnology track and bioinformatics track.
The Master of Science program at Stanford requires 45 units course work
Top Ten Schools for Undergraduate Programs in USA are-
John Hopkins University, Baltimore
Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Columbia University in the city of New York
Duke University
Washington University, St.Louis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale University
Top Graduate Programs in USA are
John Hopkins University
Georgia Institute of technology
University of Texas, Austin
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
Boston University
University of Pittsburg
University of California, San Diego
University of Virginia
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Columbia University
Cornell University
North western University
Stanford University
Duke University (Pratt)
Washington University in St Louis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Case Western Reserve University
Rice University
Some Indian Schools offering Master’s Program
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Banaras Hindu University, Institute of technology
Jadavpur University, Kolkatta
Dwaraka Das Sanghi College of Engineering, Mumbai
UK
Institute of biomedical engineering at Imperial college London
Institute of biomedical engineering Oxford University
University of Glasgow faculty of biomedical and life sciences
Australia
University of New South Wales
Queensland and University of Sydney
Flinders University
Swinburne University of Technology
RMIT Victoria
Career Prospects in Biomedical engineering
Designing developing and manufacturing and marketing medical devices
Providing non-clinical services working in hospitals
Academic career for Ph.D degree holders
Government regulatory agencies
Technical advisors for marketing departments
Career -Examples of industries that employed biomedical Engineers
Abbot Laboratories, Advanced tissue sciences, alliance pharmaceuticals, Aurora Bioscience, Baxter health Care dynamics, Chiron technologies, Guidant, Nanogen. Novartis, Novatec laser, Siemens.
Illustrative Designations and Salaries
USA
Level 1 biomedical engineer $42000-65000
On a base salary of $49000 the total with benefits is about $71000
Level 2 Biomedical engineer $ 50,000-64,000
On a base salary of 51000 the total with benefits is about $81,000
Director level earned $75,000 – 100,00 with median of $86500
On a base salary of 88000 the total is about $122,000
UK
senior Biomedical Engineer earned pounds 30K to 40K
service engineer pounds 25K- 30K
Quality engineer medical devices 28K-32K
Masters in bioinformatics pounds 40k-50K
Australia
Salary range of Aus $ 51000-$65000
Inclusive of benefits Aus $53000-$73180.
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