Career Details
Biomedical Engineers
Combine engineering principles with medical and biological sciences to design and create equipment, devices, computer systems, and software used in healthcare.
Overview
Combine engineering principles with medical and biological sciences to design and create equipment, devices, computer systems, and software used in healthcare.
What you'll do
- Design equipment and devices, such as artificial internal organs, replacements for body parts, and machines for diagnosing medical problems
- Install, adjust, maintain, repair, or provide technical support for biomedical equipment
- Evaluate the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of biomedical equipment
- Present research findings to scientists, nonscientist executives, clinicians, hospital management, engineers, other colleagues, and the public