Biomedical Engineer: Senior Engineering Position Requiring Solid Core in Traditional Engineering

I have suggested a number of times on this blog that biomedical engineering programs need to increase the level of traditional engineering content.  Here is an anecdotal example of a corporation asking for this type of experience for a senior Principal Research Engineer position. Whoever created the description had been told or had decided [...]

Top 20 Schools With The Largest B.S. Biomedical Engineering Graduating Class in 2007

Top 20 schools which offer B.S. Biomedical Engineering degrees by graduating class size.  These schools represent 1641 graduates.  They represent about half the total number of B.S. BME graduates for 2007.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects approximately 300 new Biomedical Engineering jobs every year between 2006 and 2016.   As can be seen there is [...]

After You Get Your New Biomedical Engineering or BMET Position: The Boss and Goals

You have graduated and now you have a job as a Biomedical Engineer or BMET. You have been accepted as having the potential to make a contribution to your new company.  What does it really mean?  Well basically it means that your new boss and his boss thinks they can use you [...]

Mississippi:List of Pharma Companies Which May Potentially Employ Biomedical Engineers and Technologists

An engineer with genomics, tissue and chemistry heavy background may be able to find a position in one of these firms which are registered as manufacturers of pharmaceuticals.   The manufacturers on this list may have changed their location since the it was last updated but should be no more than a year out of date.  [...]

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 [...]