A large number of our underclassmen are employed as research assistants in the laboratories. The majority of our seniors that apply to graduate programs received lucrative financial aid offers to attend the top ranked programs. Some biomedical engineers aim to understand each machine's function so that they can model it and predict responses to untested situations. Other biomedical engineers aim to correct deficiencies in function. Still other biomedical engineers aim to copy nature's designs to create better man-made machines.
Nature is the gifted experimentalist and teacher that all biomedical engineers learn from.
Biomedical engineers measure biological phenomena as physicians do in a hospital in order to diagnose a patient. In many respects the goals of biomedical engineers and those of biologists or physicians overlap. What distinguishes the biomedical engineer, however, is a desire to reach a quantitative understanding of the properties of biological systems. This quantitative understanding can provide a means to measure, for example, which medical diagnostic test is the more accurate, or the less harmful. BME is booming.