Biomedical engineering or Industrial Biochemistry in UL?

Ivan Offlcockitch

Hey I'm trying to decide which of these 2 to do (in UL).
Has anyone done either of these courses and could tell me about them?
Or even if anyone knows someone doing these courses that would help too.

I havent done engineering in school so I'm wondering is there a lot of "school engineering" in the biomedical engineering course.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and please reply asap as the cao deadline is friday.

Thanks

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reunion

I did mechanical engineering, which is the same as biomedical engineering for the first two years.

I suppose you could just boil it down to do you like physics (engineering) or chemistry (biochemistry)?

Ivan Offlcockitch

reunion wrote: »

I did mechanical engineering, which is the same as biomedical engineering for the first two years.

I suppose you could just boil it down to do you like physics (engineering) or chemistry (biochemistry)?

ya good point.
I had kinda boiled it down to that too.
Think I'll go for biomed engineering. Less boring jobs and more of them in it I think than industrial biochem...

reunion

is jobs the factor? I don't know what biochemistry is like but I have heard that biomed companies prefer to hire mechanical engineers and just teach them the biomed stuff than hire biomeds. Though that was only a specific company.

What job are you hoping for? do you want to do research? you could do industial biochemistry and a biomed masters afterwards or biomed phd if you are interested.

Ivan Offlcockitch

reunion wrote: »

is jobs the factor? I don't know what biochemistry is like but I have heard that biomed companies prefer to hire mechanical engineers and just teach them the biomed stuff than hire biomeds. Though that was only a specific company.

What job are you hoping for? do you want to do research? you could do industial biochemistry and a biomed masters afterwards or biomed phd if you are interested.

Well it's really just that I've an idea of what kind of jobs are in biochemistry e.g: quality control, regulation etc. which would involve a lot of report writing and being stuck in a lab all day and I can't see myself enjoying that; seems fairly boring to me.
So that's kinda why I'm tending towards biomed jobs which I would hope would be less monotonous...

Oh and I don't like the sound of what you said about that biomed company tending towards mechs more.Hope it's not true for all companies...:(

reunion

nah it's not true for all companies. I will say though a mech degree will allow you to enter the biomed field and aero fields. (I'm not trying to promote it :P)

There are plenty of companies in ireland in the bio field so no need to worry regarding jobs or anything. You will need a masters though as that is now that standard (at least when you start).

Ivan Offlcockitch

reunion wrote: »

nah it's not true for all companies. I will say though a mech degree will allow you to enter the biomed field and aero fields. (I'm not trying to promote it :P)

There are plenty of companies in ireland in the bio field so no need to worry regarding jobs or anything. You will need a masters though as that is now that standard (at least when you start).

Ya i know you're right about mech engineers having better opportunities,versatility etc. and it's the better option to do but I just don't have a real interest in the mechanical or aeronautical side of engineering. It was the biology that drew me to the biomed course so I just want to do something along that line.

Oh and ya I knew I would have to do a masters at the end but had actually forgotten again so thanks for reminding me.;)

xyzmech

reunion wrote: »

is jobs the factor? I don't know what biochemistry is like but I have heard that biomed companies prefer to hire mechanical engineers and just teach them the biomed stuff than hire biomeds. Though that was only a specific company.

Can I ask which company is that?

reunion

could be an idea to do the undergraduate in bio and then the masters in mech (or the other way around) so you could have the best of both worlds.

As for being less monotonous, I was in a department of an engineering company for coop where the work only required people with degrees because the insurance required it.

U.L. should really introduce an excel module or make it apart of the introduction to engineering because more than likely you will be at a desk (particularly for coop) using excel.

and xyzmech it was stryker, I heard it from someone who was working in a specific department but judging from airbus and bombardier at the U.L. recruitment fair this year, mechs are preferable over specialised degrees generally (not that much more preferable mind you).

joey12

ah here, listen do Bio eng, dont be listening to this mech eng craic. an engineer is an engineer at the end of the day. Bio companies clearly hire bio engineers!! the course is made around what employers want they have loads of input!!!

Sure i know aeros in some very successful Biomed companies.

Ivan Offlcockitch

joey12 wrote: »

ah here, listen do Bio eng, dont be listening to this mech eng craic. an engineer is an engineer at the end of the day. Bio companies clearly hire bio engineers!! the course is made around what employers want they have loads of input!!!

Sure i know aeros in some very successful Biomed companies.

ya sound man. I put it down first on the cao so that's that.

You left it a bit late to say it as the deadline is closed now but shur its good reassurance for me that ive picked the right course.;)