Hello Engineers,

Here is a story about a young engineering grad. I find it hard to make decision.

I hold a Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. I find my personal interest in medical electronics (medical instruments), that’s the reason I start my M.Sc. During my master study, I took courses in digital design area: VLSI design, Verilog hardware design, and gained experience in FPGA design (participated in FPGA contest and won a prize in North American Region).

Except the above technical skills, I also have experience in small embedded system design, i.e. 8-bit MCU, embedded C programming and some knowledge in large embedded system (I bought an ARM11 dev board, and teach myself).

Two years passed, when graduating from university, I find that many friends from my lab find jobs in ASIC design field, from front-end digital design, verification to back-end physical design. Perhaps that’s the typical career opportunity for micro-electronics grads.

I guess I could find a job like my friends in ASIC field or FPGA field. But my dream career is to enter medical electronics industry, designing medical instruments. What I could do is far away what I want to do. It makes me so confused.

With such a background, how can I enter medical electronics field?

If anyone has any advice or suggestion shared with me, I would really appreciate it.

My contact is: xiuxin.yang@gmail.com

Rich Krajewski

2/17/2012 1:24 PM EST

Research whether there is any kind of database of disease and bodily scent correlations. Then design and program an olfactory device that can detect signs of disease noninvasively via scent. That should do it. A proof-of-concept prototype for just one disease will likely do the trick. (If there is no database, you may have to create one yourself.) At worst, you will have invented a device that can tell if a patient has not bathed, or eaten garlic.

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Rich Krajewski

2/17/2012 1:50 PM EST

Also, it is well known that many of today's advances in medical electronics come from UFO crash sites, so you may want to locate one and move nearby.

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VickLiu

2/21/2012 2:14 AM EST

Agilent will need you but in ShangHai PRC

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angustino

2/21/2012 4:44 PM EST

pay your dues, give jobs first to experienced unemployed EE's

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Neo1

3/13/2012 11:16 PM EDT

Electronics is a big field but medical electronics is not so large, even now it is restricted to some select companies and it's subsidiaries because of stringent standards requriements and critical legacy software deployed.

You can go as your friends and after having gained some real world experience look out for these select companies.

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