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Re:Berkeley offers its data science course online for free by swedishfish on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:15PM (#16770632)
My friend who majored in biomed kept getting passed over during her job search. Turns out all the biomed companies just wanted to hire mechanical engineers. (She did eventually find a job in her field.)

I guess it's analogous to the data science degrees popping up today. Will be interesting to see if it ends up as a fad degree or a legitimate career path.

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Re:Berkeley offers its data science course online for free by ghaff on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:50AM (#16773624)
My impression (as someone who was once very interested in biomedical engineering) was that it was always mostly mechanical engineering plus some bio/chem and teaming up with doctors. I didn't end up going that route but I got an ME from a school where a number of mechanical engineering professors worked with the affiliated hospital on projects.
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