Biomedical engineers require a broad science and mathematics background. Recommended secondary school courses include physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.
Biomedical engineers conduct research in enginering, biology, or medicine.
Basic and applied research is usually conducted at universities, government laboratories, and large industries. Others with biomedical engineering degrees may pursue medical practice or research. Biomedical engineering has advantages as a premedical major because of the increasing technological complexity of medicine. Additionally, biomedical engineers work in industrial settings or in hospitals or other biomedical institutions and their contributions to these establishments include research and development, engineering design and product development, business aspects of engineering, and technical management. Professionals in biomedical engineering areas enjoy unusual opportunities to conduct individual research in a field that produces rapid, and sometimes dramatic, technological discoveries.