As originally asked by Karthikeyan Raja.

Karthikeyan Raja
Sustaining Engineer at Barksdale Control Products
Thank you all for your valuable comments…..

Joseph Walsh
Senior Firmware Engineer at Milwaukee Tool -ONEKEY
I have seen two types. Note, i am neither, so this is observation only. Bio Med, which leads to more opportunities in medical, and Traditional Mechanical engineers, with some modeling skills, and some electives/continuing education in Bio Med, which leads to less opportunities specifically in Bio Med, but more opportunities as a whole. Now, I must qualify this with, many of the “Bio Med” focused ones, don’t end up doing much Mechanical Engineering, but more Product Engineering, “Patent” Engineering, or “Director Of….” type work, Having the knowledge in Bio Med to “overview” the design work of junior engineers. This is only an observational statistic of one individual, so target region might have something to do with it. I have been in a general manufacturing region that also has medical my whole career.

Gary Mahon
Director at Indigo Verve Ltd
I’m biased (but I have a Mech Eng degree so why not?), but I’d agree with the comments above. I’ve had 20 years developing pharma/medical devices and my Mech Eng degree has been very helpful. With the basics from that you could learn other specialisms as needed. I’d recommend trying to learn some broader sciences as it’s invaluable to be able to communicate with other disciplines such as chemists if you want to be a good product developer.

Andrew Thomas, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Manufacturing at Enable Injections, Inc.
I would follow George Purtell’s great advice, core engineering is best.
Regardless of Biomedical or not, products are products, especially when you are only involved in the mechanical aspect. Look for something that has heavy reliance on materials choice and methods of manufacture. You can also focus on design for manufacturing, design for serviceability and product’s green impact.

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Pat Defelice
President at DeFelice Core Consulting
Mechanical Engineering with the medical device and orthopedic community is more than valuable. I suggest you read up on the future of additive manufacturing within the medical community and you’ll need no more convincing. Best of luck!

Ric Navarro
CEO & President at Intellirod Spine, Inc.
With my ME degrees I have worked in the field of Artificial Hearts(pumps), wheelchairs, operating room equipment, and mostly spinal implants. These are all fundamentally mechanical engineering based products, with a biologic application.

Pat Ridgely, MD
Consultant in Medical Devices and Education
Karthikeyan, I suggest you take a look at some relevant journals and review ME-oriented job postings on device-company sites.

George Purtell
Senior NPD Engineer at NextPhase Medical Devices
I have been doing product development of Medical Devices for almost 30 years.I have a BS in Mechanical engineering. I believe that a core engineering discipline such as mechanical , plastics or electrical gives a medical engineer a better engineering foundation than a Biomedical degree does. A mechanical background would give you good entry into product development, manufacturing, or quality.

Karthikeyan Raja
Sustaining Engineer at Barksdale Control Products
thank u all for replying….. i would be happy if anyone explain me further about career opportunities of mechanical engineer in medical domain. (the type of work a mechanical engineer would do in medical domain)

Pat Ridgely, MD
Consultant in Medical Devices and Education
I am a bit of a heretic on this. I encourage people to do their degree in a core engineering discipline (for me, it was electrical) , but with a heavy focus on biomedical. It gives you more career flexibility.

Guillermo Millicovsky
– Preclinical Safety Evaluations, Toxicologist – Adjunct College Faculty Health Sciences – Bilingual Science Professor
Agree….Biomedical Engineering is best.

James O’Hara
Owner Barone O’Hara Associates
MS Biomedical Eng.