Why I Want To Pursue A Degree In Biomedical Engineering

Knowing a person with heart arrhythmia is living an active life because of a pacemaker, a person with a missing limb is walking again or holding a cup of coffee because of prosthetics, a person is alive because a defibrillator could get his heartbeat back makes me feel good to call myself a biomedical engineer. I must admit choosing engineering wasn't my first choice but the more I came to learn about my course, the more I fell in love with it. Engineering and medicine interlaced together is such an amazing field. Technology just keeps getting better and better and there are so many new inventions aimed at enhancing the lives of people everywhere. I want to be a part of this.

I chose the Pure Science stream during my 11th and 12th in school because of my love for science and this enabled me to get a score of 91%. I recently graduated with a degree in B.Tech Biomedical Engineering from Sathyabama University, Chennai. Here I learned varied

My interest in life science made me attend a National Workshop on Animal Cell Line Techniques held at my college. To enrich my skills in software, I attended the Raspberry Pi Workshop conducted by Inventron during Biospectra'15 held at Anna University, Chennai. Another workshop I attended was the Basic Programming in Signal and Imaging Processing conducted by the Association of Biomedical Engineers at SSN College of Engineering. We also had a Hands-on Industrial Workshop on Critical Care Equipment conducted by Biovision Medical Systems at my college. The workings of instruments like diathermy, defibrillator, ventilator, etc. were explained to us.

Additionally, I attended a Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation Training held at Saveetha University on World Health Day as part of ‘Save a Life Movement. It was an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records as the most people to complete CPR training in 24 hours. It was successfully completed in 8 hours and 8 minutes, training 28,015