Education: Parents and Students Should Insist On Seeing Student Outcomes Statistics for Biomedical Engineering Programs

Over the last decade there has been a shift in focus by regional post secondary school accrediting agencies to require colleges and universities to demonstrate how their programs positively impact there students after graduation.  The term used to identify this type of activity is “student outcomes”.  In my opinion the reason parents and students decide to [...]

Biomedical Engineering Programs Reporting 50% or More Women in the 2007 Graduating Class

The Biomedical Engineering programs attract a higher proportion of women than any other engineering program.  I thought it would be interesting to show just how high the proportion is in some programs.  I am not aware of any explanation.  My guess is that the opportunity to contribute to the health of the community may be [...]

How Too Many Biomedical Engineering Programs Undercut Their B.S. Graduates Corporate Career Prospects

Students and their parents interested in a B.S. Biomedical Engineering or B.S. Biomedical Engineering Technology degree as a ticket to a corporate career need to examine their options carefully.    They need to look beyond the campus facilities, the leading edge research and of the campus “experience” and ask hard questions about how the graduate will [...]

Market Research: How Genetic Testing Will Be Integrated Into Clinical Practice by 2014

Medical educators have been grappling with what to teach future M.D.’s about using genetics in medicine and in so doing have attempted to paint a broad brush prediction about how genetics will likely be integrated into medical practice in the next 5 years or more.  These particular predictions are found in  “Report VI – Contemporary [...]

An Entry Level Engineer Should Know More Than Theory

“The mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. He who is theoretic as well as practical, is therefore doubly armed; able not only to prove the propriety of his design, but equally so to [...]