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Re: What to study

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Do you need to decide during your first year? I imagine most engineers take core classes for at the very least the first semester and a half, so you have plenty of time to figure out what you want to do. It took me about a semester to commit to being a pure mechanical engineering major.

That said, it sounds like you want to be biomed, if you're interested in neural interfaces.
I agree with Chris, Biomed sounds like what you are looking for. I have two friends who are doing work simmilar to what you want to do both with Biomed degrees.

The issue with Biomed is that it encompassses a huge range of applications, at some of the big engineering schools they offer enough concentrations to find exactly what you want (both of my friends working in this field Majored in Biomed at RPI with a concentration in "Bioinstrumentation") When I went to look up the curriculum I expected to see a Biomed curriculum with some extra EE courses but it looks like there is more EE than BioMed. Here is a link to the curriculum, while the school you choose may not offer this exact program you could probably build the equivalent with some sort of Dual BioMed/EE Major or Major/Minor combination.

http://www.bme.rpi.edu/index.php?opt...27&It emid=39


I would reccomend EE and BioMed together, take as many classes in each as possible and then pick whichever department gives better research opportunities for grad school. The nice thing about an advanced degree is that typically once you get it companies care less abut what the degree is in and more about what your research was, many (most?) projects bridge multiple disciplines.
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