Career Opportunities with a Degree in… Biomedical Engineering

Your Skills and the Employment Market

Possible Career Opportunities

Sample Jobs

Further Study Opportunities

What Past Graduates Have Done

Resources in the Careers Information Room

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Your skills and the employment market

Skills gained during your studies include: 

• Analytical Skills
• Communication Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Capacity for Detail
• Creativity
• Interpersonal Skills
• Research Skills
• Time Management / Prioritising

Biomedical engineers can be employed in industry (e.g. pharmaceutical, medical devices), in universities, in hospitals, in research facilities of educational and medical institutions, in teaching, and in government regulatory agencies.

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Possible Career Opportunities

The following links lead to the relevant section of our Occupational Pages, which may contain information or links relevant to your chosen occupation.

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Note: Further qualifications may be needed for certain positions. This list is a sample of positions available.

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Often Biomedical Engineers work in the research, design and manufacture or modification of medical products (such as artificial organs, joints etc) and work closely with other medical personnel.

There are many other areas directly related to this field such as computer analysis of patient data, using artificial intelligence in patient support, biological / tissue engineering, equipment maintenance and much more. 

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Sample Jobs

Some jobs advertised that may suit students / graduates (these jobs are not currently available and are shown here for illustration purposes only).

Graduate Engineer, Creganna Medical Devices. Product / process development, equipment spec / installation, setting up pilot production lines, product testing, materials testing and evaluation. Project planning skills, ability to liase with suppliers, innovation, ability to generate conceptual ideas, technical skills, communication skills needed. 

Graduate Engineer, Innovation Centre, Creganna Medical Devices. Providing engineering support to new products and technologies projects of the Centre and assist in development. Must have strong mechanical aptitude, innovation skills, work on own initiative, flexible approach to work with results oriented attitude, customer focused, team worker with good communication and organisational skills.

Global Traineeship, Johnson & Johnson. Activities include auditing, planning, completing design specifications, developing design standards, executing process validation, and providing regulatory submissions to State Agencies. On completion you will be offered position in Engineering, Operations or Quality within the Johnson & Johnson family of companies. .

Search for jobs on Careers Connect (see left) or with gradireland.com

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Further study opportunities

For certain career choices, employers may look for candidates with further qualifications and training. 

To see the range of opportunities in NUI Galway please visit the www.nuigalway.ie/courses .

The Careers Information Room has sections on Ireland and the UK (including individual prospectuses), USA (with guides to applying, funding and lists of courses), studying in EU countries as well as further afield.

Other postgraduate links:

http://www.postgradireland.com/ also contains useful information on postgraduate courses in Ireland

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/ is an excellent site for researching opportunities in the UK

http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus covers the EU.

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What past graduates have done

It is always interesting to know what fellow graduates have done after obtaining their degree at NUI Galway.  These have been taken from NUI Galway's Graduate Destination Survey.  

• Associate Engineer, Creganna Galway
• Associate Engineer, MedNova Galway
• Associate R&D Engineer, Medtronic Galway
• Engineer, Bioniche Galway
• Engineer, Creganna Medical Devices Galway
• Engineer, Graduate Development Programme Boston Scientific Galway
• Engineer, Stryker Howmedica USA
• Engineer, Vistamed
• IBEC Intern, MedNova Galway
• Quality Engineer, MedNova Galway
• Research and Development Engineer - in cardiovascular division, Boston Scientific Galway
• Research Engineer, Proxy Biomedical NUI Galway
• Working while travelling, Medical Devices company Australia
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Resources in the Careers Information Room

 We have valuable information resources, experienced career development advisers and information staff on hand to help you with your queries.

Reference material in the Information Room includes:

• Occupational files ’T’ and ’V’
• Building Careers that Fit
• Engineering as a Career
• Breakthrough – Life Enhancing Careers (Pharmaceutical Industry)

Drop into our information room and we will be happy to assist you.

Check out our useful links at www.delicious.com/careersinfo/engineering

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