Biomedical/Prosthetic Engineering

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

While you obviously know that not every University offers Biomedical Engineering as an undergraduate major, you should also keep tabs on if they offer it as a minor and/or concentration. A degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Biomechanics can often get you essentially the same career and graduate school opportunities if you want to look at different Universities.

I agree that a more general Engineering major will get equivalent if not more career options than a specific BME major.

In Texas, UT-Austin and Rice University have very prestigious bio-medical undergraduate programs. Rice is located next to the largest medical research center in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center

[PaW]

From the left coast, north quadrant....

The University of Washington has a Bioengineering Dept, and an associated Neurobotics Laboratory. I know of several Pacific Northwest FIRST'ers that have spent summer internships at the lab.

[delsaner]

I appreciate the help everyone. If anyone can PM me their experiences when visiting Engineering Colleges, that would be great. I also took a look at a list of some colleges with my mother and my brother.
We narrowed it down to...
-Drexel, NJIT, RPI, Rutgers, Clemson, Univ North Carolina, UConn, Stony-Brook Univ, Penn State, SUNY at Binghamton, WPI, Lehigh, and Univ Rhode Island.
If anyone had any experiences with any of these colleges, please PM me.

Im actually a junior this year. I plan on taking AP physics and AP calc AB (maybe BC) next year.

[kulisb]

When I was at the University of Rhode Island, I spent my first 2 years in the Biomedical Engineering program. If interested, I could put you in contact with someone that completed the program. I changed out of Biomedical, not because I didn't like the program, but because I became really interested in URI's Ocean Engineering program. I know they also have a dual degree program that combines Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, which is something to look into. Something to think about is availability of majors if you're not 100% sure of what you want. That's what I liked about URI over smaller schools like WPI....if I decided to change majors, there were plenty of options.

It sounds like you have a lot of great schools in mind. Send me a message if you would like me to give you a contact.

Good luck with your decisions ahead!

Brad

[Akash Rastogi]

I was floored by the quality of RPI's programs when I visited, but one thing that I absolutely hated was the demographics there. Yea its RPI and there's bound to be "nerdy" kids, but it wasn't right for me in terms of social activity on campus. Male:Female ratio is a bummer, but luckily there's an all girls school close by.

Keep in mind what type of social setting you want in college and visit for a full weekend if you can. I did this for RPI and I realized I would love the course work, but I probably wouldn't fit into the campus life all that well. (Then again, we hung out with freshmen...what'd they know anyway right?) On the other hand there's schools like U Illinois that are awesome in the academic and social setting (being a Big 10 helps). Same goes for Penn State, Lehigh, etc.

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