Career Advice
Since Bioengineering is such a broad field, it is very important for students to look widely for advice as to the many potential careers in bioengineering. We have collected links to a number of valuable resources.
Links that Discuss Bioengineering Careers:
1. Designing a Career in Biomedical Engineering https://www.embs.org/about-biomedical-engineering/designing-a-career-in-biomedical-engineering/from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (http://embs.org). This site has an 18 page pdf appropriate for high school and beginning college students considering a career in biomedical engineering.
2. EMBS Student Websitehttp://students.embs.org/. This site features multiple videos discussing careers in bioimedical engineering.
3. Navigate the Circuithttp://navigate.aimbe.org/from AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering(aimbe.org) This site has has advice on biomedical engineering careers, jobs by state, and video advice from leaders in the field
4. Free online course: "So You Want to Be A Biomedical Engineer" https://www.edx.org/course/so-
These are sites with BME job postings:
BMES Career Connections Job Board and Career Center: http://jobboard.bmes.org/jobseekers/
EMBS Career Center and Job Board: https://embs-jobs.careerwebsite.com
These are the most prominent professional organizations in the field of biomedical engineering:
BMES: Biomedical Engineering Society bmes. Org
EMBS: EEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society embs.org
AIMBE: American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering aimbe.org
IFMBE: International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering ifmbe.org
IFMBE is an umbrella organization of 55 national BME societies world wide
These professional organizations have active biomedical and bioengineering interest groups:
AICHE: American Institute for Chemical Engineering – Society for Biological Engineering
ASME: American Society for Mechanical Engineering --
Alliance of Advanced BioMedical Engineering
https://www.asme.org/topics/bioengineering
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery – Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics
https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigbio
ASABE: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
https://www.asabe.org/about-us.aspx
ISPE: International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering
Ispe.org
ISCB: International Society for Computational Biology