x_wolf

hmm.. I've been sniffing around the discussion board and most people are talking about either CIT-ECE or SCS (mostly)

So.. my question is how's CIT for double major in Mechanical engineering and Biomedical engineering?

I'm absolutely sure I want to pursue biomedical engineering, but since undergraduate education in biomedical engineering is only applicable as an additional major, I decided to apply for mechanical engineering since I'm kind of interested in that field too. So, I applied only to the mechanical engineering and got an acceptance.

Now that I have choices among Umich, UVa and CMU, I'd like to know how is CIT for Mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering.

If the money is not a problem since I'm an international student (all schools are expensive anyway), would CMU be a good choice?

RacinReaver

Both departments are pretty strong, and if you're interested in robotics or something of that sorts in mechanical, I can't think of a better place to go.

A lot of people will recommend not getting a biomedical engineering BS because it's a very broad degree and doesn't have the same job opportunities that a "traditional" engineering degree does. If you get a MechE/Biomed double major and then go to grad school for Biomedical Engineering I think you'd be pretty set, though. Even without the grad school, the double in Mechanical will make you a lot more marketable than a biomed degree alone.

omeed347

do u guys think just doing bioengineering and grad school will be ok?

also when appyling to grad school would it be better to be coming from ucla or ucsd or does it not really matter?

lastly how long do u guys think a double major would take? are there any majors that work well with bioeng so u can still finish ur bs in 4 years?

skatj

I'm wondering this as well. What's the best major that goes along with biomed that you can double with in CMU?

Will double major be significantly harder or does it just take longer?

RacinReaver

I know biomed goes well with Materials Science, as a bunch of my friends did it along with their materials major. I don't think it was a whole lot of extra work, and a lot of them found it to be useful in their senior capstone class as they were able to double count their MSE capstone and Biomed capstone projects together.

I don't know of anyone that had to delay their graduation to get their biomed double.

It would probably also work with ChemE and MechE, and probably won't have too much overlap with most ECE and CivE classes.

skatj

How would a double major work? Would it be extremely difficult to squeeze in the extra classes considering an already difficult major such as engineering?

RacinReaver

Biomed is made to be a double major, so it shouldn't be difficult to work it in. I imagine the most trouble you'd have is some classes overlapping with a humanities requirement you want to take, so you'd have to choose what to take when.

It's much easier to double biomed than physics, math, CS, or probably most humanities due to the double-counting of credits and the number of people you'll know in your biomed classes.

mdcissp

To omeed 347: Are you in state California? If yes, why not go to UCLA or UCSD? CMU is famous for computer science.