Biomedical engineers design artificial hearts and hips. With engineers in
other fields, they develop and maintain the systems that keep astronauts alive during spaceflight. They manage the diagnostic instruments that monitor patients in emergency rooms and during surgery, and they have the option of going directly to medical school. View our full description
People have been working in biomedical engineering for almost two centuries, but formal programs to prepare engineers for this challenging field are relatively new.
Texas A&M's bachelor's degree program in biomedical engineering is designed to prepare students to work in concert with physicians and life scientists to solve a wide variety of medical and biological problems.
The curriculum is designed to accommodate individual student interests by offering a number of elective courses that complement our core curriculum and provide a specialized focus to our students' basic education.
Senior year analysis and design projects require students to utilize the skills that will be required of them in a professional setting in which they're the engineer: (a) ability to identify the problem, (b) imaginative thought, (c) ability to obtain and design a solution, and finally, (d) ability to effectively articulate the processes used and the final outcome to a group of one's peers.
Biomedical engineering graduates will be prepared to work in a wide variety of different areas:
- Industrial careers include research and development, customer engineering, sales, and regulatory affairs
related to medical devices.
- Hospital and hospital-related employment includes clinical engineering, involving direct participation in patient care and medical research as well as responsibility for the medical equipment in the hospital environment.
- Government employment is also available in research and development and enforcement of medical device regulations.
It's also an excellent degree program for students interested in graduate study in engineering, or public
health, law or business. Students interested in medical school can meet admission prerequisites through minor modifications to this curriculum.
Biomedical engineering is a diverse, multidisciplinary field that uses engineering, science and technology to solve medical problems and other problems involving living systems.
