Is anyone a BME in NYC? I have an interest in BME but I’ve heard a lot of people say that there were no jobs for BME. I can’t seem to find a job online even though I read that BME is a growing job. I plan on doing EE bachelors and BME masters.
Here’s a study from the United States Department of Labor. It shows where the jobs are. I was recently researching this too because I have a S currently considering a BME major.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes172031.htm#st
Hope it helps!
@ACollegeFan’s link is very useful.
I don’t think I’ve come across a single job listing in the field of or related to BME in New York City. I’m not saying there aren’t any BMEs in NYC, but you are going to have a hard time finding a job as an entry-level engineer if you limit yourself to a single location, let alone NYC. If you really want to stay in the northeast, Boston is great. The greater Boston area is a hotspot for not only biomedical engineering, but engineering in general. As the link shows, most BME jobs are located in Massachusetts and California, followed by the Midwest.
What are you searching for? If you’re searching for jobs with “biomedical engineer” in the job title, you’re not going to get a whole lot of results, period, and probably none in NYC since, again, there really aren’t any BME jobs in NYC. There are a couple reasons for this, but first, let me address the “growing job” aspect:
The BLS also provides data on occupation growth/outlook. Here’s the page for the various engineering occupations: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/home.htm
According to the page for BME (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/biomedical-engineers.htm), as of 2014 there were ~22,000 jobs with a predicted 23% growth rate over 10 years (ie, fast growth), translating to an additional 5,100 jobs by 2024. Now look at the pages for ME (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mechanical-engineers.htm) and EE (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/electrical-and-electronics-engineers.htm). For ME, they predict 5% growth rate (average/slow growth), but there are also a lot more ME jobs than BME, ~277,000, so this actually translates to an additional 14,600 jobs–much more than BME. In other words, don’t confuse job growth rate with number of jobs available. Just because a field has high growth, doesn’t mean lots of jobs. And a field with slow or nonexistent growth might have lots of jobs available, like EE, due to the sheer number of jobs.
Perhaps more importantly, going back to “biomedical engineer” job title, there simply aren’t a lot of “biomedical engineers”. This is because most companies in the biomedical engineering industry don’t have jobs titled “biomedical engineer.” Most of these companies will have job titles like “mechanical engineer,” “electrical engineer,” “product engineer,” “design engineer,” “product development engineer,” “chemical engineer,” “materials engineer,” and so on, to name a few. Since BME is a mix of the traditional mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering disciplines, and since most jobs involve working on one of these aspects, the jobs are targeted toward those who have backgrounds in these areas. “Biomedical engineer” is a catchall term that refers to the use of these traditional engineering disciplines to address issues in medicine/biology, which is why you don’t frequently see it as a job title, and which is why most of the mechanical, electrical, chemical, and biomedical engineers working in the area of BME aren’t necessarily counted in the BLS’s statistics for biomedical engineers.