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Old 08-14-2007, 12:25 AM   #1
the_police909
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EE vs. ME before MS in BME.

Hi,

So I still think I want to do patent law, but I'm looking at BME in general (not neural engineering anymore) as a backup. I would be set on EE as my major, but I'm not too hot on circuit building and stuff. Although I love math, circuitry isn't my cup of tea, so I'm not sure if EE would be a good major since I don't really enjoy even if it is the most useful. ME is actually probably my favorite major in engineering (besides BME of course), but I'm worried that there isn't enough to do with this major in BME. I know that they can work with artificial hips and joints (which doesn't really interest me) and with some artificial organs, but I'm worried, and I know this is a pretty irrational fear, that there is too little to learn. Again, this is probably ridiculous, but I'm worried that there is a small limit to how much one can do with ME, as in, how good of an artifical heart can you design? But for EE, it seems that you can always make the machines work faster, and electricity IMO has many more unknown possibilities than mech E, so it seems "safer". Again, I know that this is ridiculous, but what else can an ME do? I'm seriously worried that there is not enough to learn as a ME in the BME field.
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