Sometimes, biomedical engineering students might feel that they don't actually know what is their major, this feeling is true to a certain extent as in many cases and due to the vast variety of the domain, students might feel they have no idea about their major.
In this article, we will try to introduce students to their domain, so that they will know what and why they need to study so that they can keep focused.
I would highly recommend that you see this youtube video from Yale University where the lecturer is introducing students to Biomedical engineering domain and he is shedding light on many aspects that are considered the most promising in biomedical engineering, if you like the video there is a cont. to it.
Also if you are looking forward to learning and get to know some of the things that you might be doing in a hospital for maintenance of medical equipment you might want to sign to Advantage Training as they provide a number of courses that are sponsored by Fluke: Biomedical.
Although you will notice that some lectures are centered around certain Fluke products, but trust me you will get to know good information from these courses. Best thing is that you get an automated certificate each time you finish a course.
Oh and by the way if you did sign up for Advantage training I recommend that you download the PDF files first and then watch the video this way it will be more efficient for you to study the course as you get to review the PDF files while you are watching the video, in many cases things will be much easier when you do so. Furthermore, the courses are divided into small coherent pieces so that it would not need too much time to complete and you are not bound by a deadline to finish a certain course. Finally good luck with your courses!
Now let us get a little deeper, if you still have not applied for a biomedical engineering, and want to know more about what courses will you expect, well here it gets a little complicated to explain as biomedical engineering is a domain that will require many skills. You are not supposed to be a doctor but you have to know good information about the human body, and you are not an electrical/electronics nor a mechanical engineer but you have to know some basics and of course, you are not an IT person but you need to know some basics.
Later on in your career or higher studies, you will get to decide what to focus on, but when studying you need to know many things. If you think that Biomedical engineering is a domain that does not require Mathematics nor Physics knowledge then you are completely wrong, in addition to that, you need to know good biology and some chemistry. Moreover, you need fair programming skills, I have known some students who failed programming subjects many times because it was not what they thought they need to know or like in order to be a biomedical engineer. It is highly recommended that you have a look at all subject titles of all years and to get to know what these subjects are about. Most of all none of this will be hard for you if you really have the desire to be a biomedical engineer, and in that case, you will like what you are doing!
Don't get too frustrated this domain is not for any person, if you feel that you like one thing only and you cannot tolerate studying other things, then my advice to you is that you specialise in that domain, I know people who became good electrical engineers and good mechanical engineers but would have failed to become good biomedical engineers. Moreover, I know biomedical engineers who even though they graduated, they were not good at their jobs simply because they were not capable of handling the diverse skills that are required by such domain, and from what I know it is better to like what you do than be good at it. Simply because if you like it you will eventually become great at it, whereas if you don't like it you will find it hard to even do the simplest of tasks.
Well, that is all for now, if you have any ideas comments or questions please write them in the comment section below.
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