Two years ago: two years ago, I read the answer to the high praise of rice, his sentence of the most happy industry abroad y moved me, I was also a very spontaneous people, but also want to do something for the community to contribute to, and it happens to be that the rice is also mechanical, I also mechanical origin, so I decided to choose the biomedical medicine, the reason for the choice is very simple, and that is that I feel that the bme than the mechanical more can play my own value. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.
Two years later: I did not expect a wobble two years past, now has been the second fast graduation, today brush their previous collection, saw the question, can not help but come back to answer.
First of all, from the industry point of view, biomedical engineering I think a great deal of good, I do not know what angle you ask this question, if you are an entrepreneur, then my feeling is that the field of biomedical industry is in the industry's upswing, startups continue to appear, and the development of the future is very good, the market competition is blank, but the demand is constantly. But I want to analyze this question from a student's point of view, after all, entrepreneurs are in the minority, and those who choose a career are in the majority.
The current situation of the university biomedical: biomedical has several learning directions, each learning direction to learn almost completely different knowledge, if you are an undergraduate will generally determine the direction of the sophomore or junior, if you are a graduate student generally enrollment with which mentor will determine the direction of your research, a few of the main research direction of the medical device, cellular engineering, medical imaging, biomechanics. There are also specific sub-directions within each direction, such as surgical instruments, medical robots, exoskeletons, and so on. Each direction is different, and the knowledge learned is very, very, very different. It can be said that several different directions are like several completely different majors, although all related to medicine, but the things learned, the direction of research is very different. Employment treatment is not quite the same. The next step is to talk about the specifics of each direction.
(1) medical devices: including the traditional device research and development, such as cardiovascular stents, exoskeleton research and development, similar to the study of Iron Man to get armor, medical robots, such as you can search the da Vinci surgical robot. This direction to do the work is similar to electrical engineers, programmers, mechanical engineers work in combination, you can simply imagine that you want to study an Iron Man shell, you have to do is to design drawings (mechanical), design circuits (electrical), control logic according to where the shell to make what instructions (programmers).
The employment of this direction is to go to the corresponding medical device research company, for example, if you are a cardiovascular stent to go to the cardiovascular stent company, if you are a robotics to go to the medical robotics company. Or do not counterparts is to go to the mechanical research and development company, as a programmer, as an electrical engineer.
There are three embarrassments in this direction: (1) fewer counterparts, which is the problem faced by all directions, China's biomedical industry is in the ascendant, all directions, counterparts are very few companies, you can even memorize all the relevant companies, so you pick the counterparts of the company you need to have a real talent. (2) industry competition, enterprise survival pressure: here from two latitude, industry competition refers to you go to the enterprise after your colleagues and you have to compete between, I put it this way, if you are a biomedical, although you usually study in the mechanical, electrical, programming, but you work is basically a single direction (with the exception of individual enterprises), you and the science class origin engaged in mechanical, electrical, programming to compete! It is difficult to compete. Secondly, the current enterprises are emerging enterprises, mature enterprises are still very few, two hands count out, this industry is a high threshold for entrepreneurship, long cycle, high efficiency, the early stage of a large degree of development and money enterprises to survive, survival of the enterprise profit is huge. But his business form determines the difficulty of survival. Here to properly analyze can analyze the day, you need to know is that you go to the enterprise may close down at any time on the good. (3) If you go to the other direction of employment (because you have three skills, mechanical, electrical, programmer), your competitiveness is not as good as the science class they. This is embarrassing, you go to this industry, you are less competitive, and you are still less competitive in other industries. Let me put it this way, you don't have a core competency unless you find a company with almost the same research direction as you, like Rice going to a cardiovascular stent company. Of course, you also have a core competence, that is, you will have a lot of general medical knowledge, but this is actually someone else to learn very quickly can also learn, because the use of very little.
(2) cell engineering: that is, to cultivate cells, and then look at their state under certain experimental conditions, etc. This is more specialized. This is more specialized, I am not that direction do not understand.
To say a few words about the employment of this direction, generally go to the direction of the counterparts, the core competitiveness is sufficient. This direction is embarrassing point is not good to find counterpart work, at the same time the nature of work is relatively boring, experimental pressure is also big.
(3) medical image of this direction is the best employment direction, the work content is the traditional programming form of image processing and deep learning. It is because of this deep learning, so he will be very hot, can be said to be a million gold oil direction, ai is so hot, this direction can be said to be quite good employment, even if you do not go to the medical company, the ordinary artificial intelligence company can go.
(4) biomechanics main work for the biological aspects of finite element analysis and mechanical experiments, and later graduated to do finite element engineers, the other I can't think of any better direction of employment, the characteristics of this direction is that you can take private work, do a good job if very comfortable. The awkward point is that the demand for finite elements is still relatively small, can not find a preferred job depends on your strength.
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Lastly, if you are like me two years ago, facing the same choice, I hope that you see after you can make the choice you think is right, and then seriously go on, I'm this answer is just a rational analysis, say I have to status quo, medical equipment, a general direction, living a very full life, do not worry about employment issues, just because of the words mentioned by the rice: there is a sense of well-being.