<p>What kind (list them if possible) of questions do they ask?
How is the future in NY/NJ states for BME major with B.S.?
GPA = ? to get a good job? (plz do not say 4.0)</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>I know it’s been said many times, but a BS in BME is weak. BS in another field + MS in BME will help you much more.</p>
<p>for the B.S., either major in ChemE, EE, or ME</p>
<p>Questions on a BME interview? Same as other interviews, for the most part. The only thing is that in some companies, you may have to explain what you bring to the table with a BME that an incoming EE or ME doesn’t. It can be a little harder to explain to someone in a company that doesn’t have anyone with BME. The lower the GPA, the harder it is to convince someone that you fit any position. You can do it with a sub-3.5 GPA, but you’d better have some good explanations of why your GPA is what it is and why it should be weighted less than your ability to think. After you land that first job, the importance of the GPA diminishes rapidly compared with your experience.</p>
<p>It’s hard to land that first job, regardless of degree. But then again - if you couldn’t manage hard, you wouldn’t be in engineering.</p>
<p>I graduated with a BME bachelor’s degree over a decade and a half ago. It was much harder then to land a position with a BME degree than it is now. I remember a 2nd interview with a small medical device company where I was being interviewed by the president and head of engineering. After a few warm-up questions, they tossed onto the conference room table a motorized catheter that was intended to as a ‘Roto Rooter’ of cardiac arteriosclerosis plaque. They said, ‘how would you test this?’ then sat back and waited for an answer…</p>
<p>-Scrubs</p>
<p>My BME interviews (for summer internships with a large, well-known medical company) had typical interview questions for the most part. What are the three biggest events in your life that have brought you to this point? What was your favorite class and why? Why did you choose BME / why do you want this job?<br>
Be prepared for some behavioral questions too - Give me an example of a time when you had a difficult problem to solve, how did you approach it, how did it turn out? What is one thing that you regret, how would you have done things differently?
During one of these interviews I was given a sketch and a description of a problem with a current device. I was then asked to list at least one possible solution to the problem. (In this case, it was a problem that was related to an electronic device, and the same questions was asked of students that had specialized in bioelectricity and tissue engineering - if you are a graduating senior, it might not be a bad idea to review some basic physics, circuits, chemistry if you haven’t used it recently)</p>
<p>If you have specific lab skills, practice naming them and talking about them intelligibly. It’s sometimes difficult to come up with the appropriate verbiage on the spot when you use shorthand everyday in the lab.</p>