Biomedical Engineers

If you have passion for biological sciences and medicine both then biomedical engineering makes a right career choice for you. It’s an interdisciplinary field between biology and medicine. A person who studies biomedical engineering is called biomedical engineer.

The Biomedical engineer applies the engineering knowledge and skills to medicine and biology in order to improve healthcare diagnosis, monitoring and therapy. Most of the work in biomedical engineering consists of research and development. Major biomedical engineering applications include the development of bio-compatible prostheses, various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices common imaging equipment such as MRIs and EEGs, regenerative tissue growth, pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic biologicals.

Role of a Biomedical Engineer

Biomedical Engineering has huge responsibilities to improve the health facilities available and develop new ones for human use; hence potential in this study discipline is very high. Though, this is newly emerging field but many institutes across the globe offer courses in biomedical engineering to fulfill the growing social industrial needs of biomedical engineers. Biomedical Engineers perform the following tasks:

Designing machines for medical diagnostics artificial limbs for organ transplants
Technical support for biomedical instruments and biomedical machinery like installation and troubleshoot etc.
Testing of biomedical equipments for safety and efficiency
Training to other clinicians on use of biomedical machinery
Work with researchers

Skills Required to be Biomedical Engineer

Academic Requirement for Biomedical Engineer

Minimum a bachelor’s degree is required to start career as biomedical engineer. One can choose this field after completion of 12 years of school education with sciences and mathematics. Generally, the course duration is 4 years during which subjects like fluid and solid mechanics, computer programming, circuit design, and bio-materials etc. are taught. At the end of program degree in biomedical engineering BE/B.Tech/BS is awarded. Further candidates can go for higher studies like MS or start working with government / private organizations. To be successful as biomedical engineer one need to possess communication abilities, critical thinking, problem solving skills and analytical skills.

Personal Skills

To study engineering one needs sound knowledge in mathematics and sciences which is ultimate to solve highly technical problems. In the field of biomedical engineering you need to be able to correlate the biological sciences and medicine necessary to solve problems in highly complex environment of biomedical engineering.

Biomedical Engineering is interdisciplinary study field and not a traditional study discipline. You must be able to apply knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computers, medicine and information sciences together to find solution of a problem during course work as well as in industry.

Scope of Biomedical Engineers in India

Most of the biomedical engineers are employed by manufacturers of medical equipments. Other sectors of employment are science and research development services, pharmaceuticals manufacturing and general health care and surgical hospitals.