Biomedical Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities: Biomedical engineers work with other engineers, scientists, doctors, nurses, and other professionals from various backgrounds in order to design, improve, maintain, and repair medical devices and joint-replacement implants. Some Biomedical engineers also help develop artificial organs and tissue-engineered skin. Depending on what you decide to do in your career, you might be responsible for developing software for medical equipment, designing new devices, researching emerging technologies, or improving imaging technology, among other things. Biomedical engineers are employed in industry, in hospitals, in research facilities, and in government regulatory agencies and jobs do not seem to be scarce.

Salary: $91,230

Education: To become one all you need is a Bachelor’s degree  and have  an education in engineering and biological science, which should roughly only take 3 to 4 years to get. In addition to that you require to have analytical skills, communication skills, listening skills, as well as math and problem solving skills.

Demand: The number of jobs available through the next 7 years are projected to grow a huge 23%.

This seems like a quite interesting field. I really like what they do and how much they get payed. For a job the only requires a Bachelor’s Degree it seems very good. I think that I would very much like to pursue that field. I would need to do more in depth research, but this seems very promising.