career project

Career Project The career I picked for this project is a Biomedical Engineer. Biomedical engineers are employed in hospitals, in research facilities of educational and medical institutions, in teaching, and in government regulatory agencies. They often serve a coordinating or interfacing function, using their background in both engineering and medical fields. When working in a hospital the biomedical engineer may provide advice on the selection and use of medical equipment, as well as supervising its performance testing and maintenance. They may also build customized devices for special health care or research needs. While working at a research institution they supervise laboratories and equipment, and participate in or direct research activities in collaboration with other researchers with such backgrounds as medicine, physiology, and nursing. Some biomedical engineers are technical advisors for marketing departments of companies and some are in management positions. Some biomedical engineers also have advanced training in other fields. For example, many biomedical engineers also have an M.D. degree, thereby combing an understanding of advanced technology with direct patient care or clinical research. Biomedical engineers go to school for four to six years depending on how high of a degree you want to get. The average salary is about 85 thousand a year but can vary with experience and how high of a degree you have. Texas is also a very good state for this job. They are third out of all fifty states with the highest employment level for this job. Texas is also on the list for the top states that pay the best salary for this job. I really didn’t know what I wanted to do as a career up to this point. But doing this paper and reading about all the things a biomedical engineer does really helped me make up my mind. It sounds like a really cool job! I would prefer to work in the hospital rather than a research institution it just seems like it would be