Biomedical Engineering PhD Jobs, Employment - May 2020.
I have completed a 4 year biomedical Engineering degree, and in my opinion you'd be better served doing an electrical engineering or mechanical engineering degree. In my experience industry get confused by what a biomedical engineer actually is.
One thing to note though is through the huge restructuring of the NHS going into being a biomedical scientist may not be the most suitable thing nowadays, especially if this is three years plus down the line as biomedical scientist jobs are being reduced, both in size and autonomy and you might not be entirely happy with a shiny new degree but being essentially a technician who puts things on.
Life-long maintenance or functional restoration of the human body is an extremely challenging task. Biomedical Engineers apply engineering principles and push forward technology to create novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools for various medical conditions. We believe that the future of healthcare will be transformed by research and development in science and engineering.
The biomedical engineer can play a vital role in any one of these sectors, working as research and development engineer in the medical device industry producing the next generation of heart valves, defibrillators, ECG systems, stents or hip replacements, right through to the specialist working in the hospital to operate and maintain sophisticated equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of.
My perception searching for industry jobs is that fewer companies are interested in an engineer with a PhD, but the ones that are interested are generally better companies with more interesting work. In other words, commodity firms aren't interested in people with PhD's; they just need qualified bodies to crank out work and a PhD doesn't make you any more qualified for most engineering tasks.
On the Biomedical Engineering course, you will cover a range of engineering applications that are relevant to the needs of the healthcare industry. Subjects covered include measurement, data analysis, mechatronics, biosignal and image processing, medical physics, biomedical instrumentation and biomedical optics.
The industry is young here, but there are definitely great opportunities. UofT engineering also has some great clubs that help students connect with industry and academia (Club for Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering), as well as a dedicated institute for biomedical engineering (IBBME).