<p>As son was researching undergraduate schools for biomedical engineering, he found many that offered a BS for biomedical engineering, rather than a BSE.</p>
<p>As he has chosen to get a traditional undergraduate engineering degree, mechanical engineering, and will graduate, hopefully, with a BME, bachelor of mechanical engineering, he would like to continue his graduate work and attain a masters in engineering.</p>
<p>He has started to look into graduate programs, with an eye to maybe visiting some schools as part of a family vacation, and was hoping he could find a school that would give him a masters in engineering, rather than a master of science, in biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>He, nor I, know what consequence the different degrees are, whether one is better than the other, but since he is focusing on the engineering aspect of the discipline, he would like to find a school with a more traditional engineering masters degree in biomedical engineering, if one exists.</p>
<p>Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ offers both Bachelors and Masters of Engineering degrees. There are two big differences between the science and engineering degrees. With the engineering you will get more hands-on experience, making you more prepared for the real world; and your curriculum crosses over into all of the engineering fields, so that you receive a broader general engineering education along with your specific major discipline. Stevens does offer a Masters of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>The standard degree is the BS in (blank) Engineering. My school and most other UCs, and I think most UCs, do not give out Bachelors or Masters of Engineering, only Bachelors/Masters of Science in (blank) Engineering. At the bachelor’s level, there’s no difference. At the master’s level, sometimes the Master of Engineering are coursework only while the Master of Science means you’ve done a research project. To an employer, finishing a research project means that you can actually apply your knowledge to do useful things, rather than just have theoretical knowledge.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know why your son wants to do BME if he wants to stay away from theory. BME is highly theoretical. The things we can do now can be done by MechE or EEs, and the things that we can’t do right now are well, highly theoretical.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech has a great Biomedical Engineering program (I am a student there in the program currently) and offers Masters and Ph.D in the program as well. It is a joint department with Emory School of Medicine, has a great department that the schools seems to put a lot of research in, great faculty, great research, and also good connections with biomedical companies (Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, C.R. Bard etc)</p>
<p>^^^I’m not understanding. Why is biomedical engineering considered theoretical? Are you saying if one wants to do traditional engineering in the biomedical field, it would be better to pursue a master’s in mechanical or another traditional engineering field rather than a master’s in biomedical engineering? This is a concern of mine, whether getting a master’s in BME would be a waste of time as far as employment prospects.</p>
<p>I’m only a second year, but from what I have learned so far in my BME coursework, it hasn’t mostly pretty practical stuff (especially at Georgia Tech, they tend to teach practical things that apply to the work force and research, for example the first BME test is a problem based course where you learn team interdisciplinary problem solving skills, and in another BME class we have learned about the engineering design process and gotten introduced to Solidworks, and I believe all of this coursework is practical because I can apply it say if I was working on product develop in a company like CR Bard or Johnson and Johnson. I have gotten on-campus interviews with Johnson & Johnson and Kimberly-Clark and phone interviews with companies such as Biogen Idec, Pfizer, and Bio-Rad, there certainly are companies that will hire BME’s from GT.</p>
<p>The problem with BME as my advisor says, is that while it is a fast growing field, it is very competitive at this point because the field is small or whatever, and it is definitely easier to find a job with say a mechanical engineering or electrical engineering degree. Also, at GT, a lot of people tend to switch out of BME because it is not what they expect or it’s harder than they expect. The choice is up to you, I am premed actually and sticking with BME because I am enjoying it so far.</p>