Remote Health Care Engineers

A good place to begin learning about biomedical engineering is Navigate the Circuit (https://navigate.aimbe.org), a Web site that has been developed by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). It provides more information on careers in the field, features interviews with biomedical engineers, and offers a list of employers and their areas of focus. Additionally, the AIMBE offers a list of other professional associations, Web sites, and other resources for high school and college students who are interested in biomedical engineering at https://navigate.aimbe.org/tools-for-success/links-and-resources.

Consider joining the Technology Student Association (https://tsaweb.org), a membership organization for middle and high school students who want to become engineers, scientists, or technologists. It offers competitions, scholarships, leadership programs, conferences, and other resources.

If you want to get into software development, you should learn how to code so that you have a general understanding of programming. Visit Codeacademy (https://www.codecademy.com), edX (https://www.edx.org), Coursera (https://www.coursera.org), and Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org), where you can learn take free or low-cost basic coding classes. Coding classes are probably also available at your high school.

Attend engineering summer exploration programs at colleges and universities. Check out the Boston Leadership Institute’s award-winning summer program in biomedical engineering at https://www.bostonleadershipinstitute.com/biomedical-engineering.

Other ways to learn more about biomedical engineering include participating in an information interview or job shadowing experience with a remote health care engineer, joining science or engineering clubs, and competing in science fairs.