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Bioengineering

Bioengineering is a broad field that combines aspects of engineering and biology. It involves applying engineering principles to biological systems, with examples including prosthetic limbs and heart pacemakers. The document focuses on biomechanical engineering as a specialization within bioengineering. Biomechanical engineering applies mechanics to biological and medical problems, and engineers create products for everyday and medical use. As a biomechanical engineer, one could work in fields like sports, rehabilitation, or medicine to develop innovative technologies and products that improve peoples' lives. The field offers a variety of career paths and is growing rapidly.

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Bioengineering

Bioengineering is a broad field that combines aspects of engineering and biology. It involves applying engineering principles to biological systems, with examples including prosthetic limbs and heart pacemakers. The document focuses on biomechanical engineering as a specialization within bioengineering. Biomechanical engineering applies mechanics to biological and medical problems, and engineers create products for everyday and medical use. As a biomechanical engineer, one could work in fields like sports, rehabilitation, or medicine to develop innovative technologies and products that improve peoples' lives. The field offers a variety of career paths and is growing rapidly.

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Bioengineering

Bioengineering. Chances are that you’ve heard of it. This field takes aspects from

engineering and biological systems and combines them. In medical use, it’s the use of artificial

tissues and organs used to replace damaged or absent parts of the human body. Examples are

prosthetic limbs and heart pacemakers. It’s a broad field, so summing it up in a single statement

or two isn’t easy. The University of California in Berkeley puts it as “applying engineering

principles to biological systems.” Bioengineering also has components of mechanical and

electrical engineering, computer science, chemistry, and biology incorporated into it. Because of

this STEM field’s diversity, there are many certain areas that people can specialize in.

The specialization area that I am most intrigued by is biomechanics, which is a part of the

bioengineering STEM field. As the Imperial College in London puts it, “Biomechanics is

mechanics applied to biological or medical problems. It includes the study of motion, of material

deformation, of flow within the body and in devices, and transport of chemical constituents

across biological and synthetic media and membranes.” Basically, biomechanical engineers

create and produce products for everyday use, as well as sometimes engineering machines to

help in medical fields.

A mix of biological engineering and chemical engineering, this field is rapidly growing

and developing and has exciting and new opportunities in biotechnology and genetic

engineering. Ideal for science lovers who are interested in design and analytics, bioengineering

is a really cool STEM field!


As a biomechanical engineer, I could invent new household products that would be used

often. Biomechanical engineers can work in other fields, such as sports, rehabilitation, and

medical. With this job, you will really keep a lot of opportunistic metaphorical doors open in

your career, if you go down this path.

Working in the sports field as a biomechanical engineer, your job will be creating and

testing more efficient workout gear and better in-game equipment to help keep the body strong

and reduce injuries. You would get the chance to work with professional athletes and help them

by engineering new, innovative gear to better their performance in their sport.

As a biomechanical engineer working in the medical department, you would probably

specialize in working with cells and tissue, studying their mechanics and biology. You’ll spend

most of your time in a lab, trying to fabricate human tissue. Ultimately, this could eliminate

many persistent diseases. Some specializations you could have would be soft tissue mechanics,

biomechanics of hearing, balance, and speech.

However, if you decide to forgo both of those and work in the rehabilitation field, your

main focus would be trying to find ways to correct brain disorders. A big part of your job would

be developing advanced robotics technology. You could also create technology to help make

surgery less invasive. This could mainly benefit in cases of neurosurgery or ophthalmic surgery.

To conclude, biomechanical engineering is a rapidly advancing field that centers around

developing helpful products to make people’s lives better, easier, or less painful. It leaves many

options on the table, kind of like a restaurant with a vast menu with all sorts of scrumptious

choices (Tasty!) All joking and figurative language aside, there are many different career paths

you can take in this job. It comes with a pretty good average salary of $87,000(as of May 2014),
and is a job that I think I would have trouble leaving. This is why I think biomechanical

engineering is a great STEM field to be involved in.

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