What kind of high school students might consider studying biomedical engineering?
Since the field is flourishing so rapidly, any student who thinks engineering is for him or her should seriously consider majoring in biomedical engineering at NJIT. All sorts of engineers, and engineering disciplines, exist within biomedical engineering. Look at me, for example. I’m trained as mechanical engineer and a material scientist — two disciplines now playing key roles in medicine. Mechanical engineers are needed to design and build bio-med devices such as orthopedic prosthetics; material scientists are needed to understand the types of materials that can be used in the body; and electrical engineers develop all sorts of medical instrumentation. The uniqueness of the biomedical engineering program here is that it combines the varied engineering specialties that surround biology today. It also allows the students to get involved in research and design solutions and devices that will help people. You are the third young biomedical engineering professor here to win the NSF Early
