BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
The Wisconsin BME Edge
Fall 2007

Katy Reed, BME undergraduate student
The BME program here at UW-Madison definitely gives you an edge.
And I would attribute that directly to the design classes.
Feedback I've gotten back from my friends who have had co-ops
and internships, they go into the work world already
knowing how to present, how to work as a team on a project.

Jeff Phillips, B.S. BME, currently in medical school:
The theory and the design courses go hand in hand.
The design courses were a fun, motivating thing we that did
in biomedical engineering.
It was kind of like the core of the biomedical engineering sequence.
You really feel like you're using the information you have
in those courses, applying them to design courses, and
you're making something that you really feel good about.

Chris Wegener, BME undergraduate student:
One of the cool things is that you do get that hands-on experience.
You get to put everything together, and you get to try and fix
what's wrong with what you put together, which always happens.
If you come in and you have the same qualifications, you've
taken the same classes, and you have the same, you know, grade point average 
as another student from another school, but you've also worked
on a project for the last four years, and you've actually
made a prototype and delivered it and tested it, you know,
that's going to give you the big advantage because, I mean,
results are the key when you're trying to get out into the real world.

April Zehm, BME undergraduate student:
In particular, the biomedical engineering department here
offers you six semesters of design, as opposed to just a 
single capstone course, so by the time you're a senior
you know the design process in and out.
You've worked with probably six clients.
You know what it's like to answer an unanswerable question.

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Created 07-Sep-2007. Last modified 25-Sep-2007.